Fact Checkers ATTACK Tucker Carlson Over US-Funded Bio-Research Facilities In Ukraine
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the existence of biological research facilities in Ukraine.
Media PLEADS With White House For War With Russia, Peace Talks SHOVED Aside
Ryan Grim details the hawkish instincts of the White House press corp.
Zelensky: Ukraine WON’T Join NATO. Putin Running Out Of Time To Win War, Sanctions Clinton, Biden
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the killing of two Fox News journalists in Ukraine this week.
Ukraine Concedes To MAJOR Putin Demand
Joining nato as a full member also requires meeting a bunch of interoperability and security standards for their military(this typically takes around a decade), and the prospective member country isn’t supposed to have any ongoing border disputes etc that would immediately pull NATO into a conflict.
Russia’s Insurgency Problem
For Day 10 of The Realignment’s daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with retired U.S. Army Lt. Col John Nagl, counterinsurgency expert and visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College. John is the author of Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice, Learning to […]
Can the U.S. Military Compete with Russia and China?
For day 9 of The Realignment’s daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall and Saagar speak with Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer at Anduril Industries, former Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, joins The Realignment […]
Outlines of potential Ukraine peace deal revealed by Russia
Russia Today Moscow’s top negotiator says Kiev has proposed the adoption of a neutral status similar to Austria or Sweden. Vladimir Medinsky, Russia’s top negotiator at the peace talks with Ukraine, has said that Kiev is floating the idea of becoming a neutral nation. “Ukraine is proposing an […]
The history lesson the Russians failed to learn
By Joel Mathis, The Week It sure seems like we’ve seen the Russo-Ukrainian war before — the story of a seemingly superior Great Power military invading an apparently weaker underdog nation, only to find itself stymied by the irregular tactics and fierce nationalism of the defenders. “The Russians were […]
NATO’s not ready for World War III
By Jason Fields The Week War is creeping closer to NATO’s borders. On Sunday, a Ukrainian base just 11 miles from Poland was struck by Russian rockets. It seems like a warning. If one of those missiles had traveled just a few seconds farther west, NATO — and therefore […]
Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the Ukraine War
Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the geopolitics of the war in Ukraine. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter. Stark Truth Radio Topics: The Geopolitical background of the conflict, […]
War in Ukraine: Uni to uniform – Ukraine’s new teenage army recruits
By Jeremy Bowen, BBC Just over a week ago I met a group of young men who had volunteered at a centre in Kyiv to fight for Ukraine. Most of them were in their late teens, not long out of school. They told me that after three days’ […]
Volodymyr Zelensky Says Ukraine Won’t Join NATO
By Brendan Cole Newsweek Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has accepted that his country will not become a member of NATO, one of the demands made by Russia before it invaded. According to a translation of his comments made via video link to at a meeting of the leaders […]
Making Sense of the New Cold War Dreamscape
LA Progressive The New Cold War Is Here to Stay, Until It Isn’t In certain quarters in this country, Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has generated enthusiasm for a new cold war. At the New York Times, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have been described as “children of the [old] Cold War” […]
Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, fixer Oleksandra Kuvshynova killed in Ukraine
By Evan Simko-Bednarski and Ariel Zilber New York Post A veteran Fox News cameraman and a local Ukrainian fixer were killed in the same attack outside Kyiv that injured one of the network’s top correspondents, Fox said Tuesday. Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova, 24, were with Fox News […]
Just how dumb do you have to be to go fight in Ukraine as a foreigner?
By Rachel Marsden, PARIS — Have you grown bored of working from home over the past couple of pandemic-plagued years? Do you long for an adventurous and exciting overseas working vacation? Well, you’re in luck because the “Ukrainian rebels” are hiring! They aren’t called that, officially. But neither […]
President Zelensky to Make Virtual Address To US Congress Wednesday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak virtually to members of Congress on Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced in a joint letter.
China AT CROSSROADS: To ARM Russia Or Not?
Krystal and Saagar examine the response by China to Russia’s invasion and the west’s economic sanctions as an event that has put the CCP at a crossroads over how their regime will proceed in geopolitics going forward
BATTLE UPDATE: 3 NATO Leaders ENTER KYIV In RISKY Move
This could be another Archduke Ferdinand situation. Krystal and Saagar bring the latest on the tactical front from Ukraine as Russia’s invasion continues and the Kremlin awaits the arrival of NATO leaders into Kyiv
Russia ASKS China For Military Aid As US Meeting Set
Krystal and Saagar bring the up to date news on the Ukraine war diplomacy front as American officials prepare to meet with China as Russia asks them for military backing
Iran Sends MISSILES Near US Consulate In Iraq, Targets Israeli “Spy Center”
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss Iran’s missile strikes near a U.S. consulate complex in Iraq.
EVIDENCE: Media Misleading US Public On Ukraine
Krystal and Saagar critique the media’s failure to educate the US public on particular measures being discussed to handle the war in Ukraine as many support a no-fly zone unless it is seen as a declaration of war by the US
Media Loves SELLING War As Pentagon Budget Balloons To $782 Billion: Expert
British journalist and editor of Harper’s Magazine, Andrew Cockburn, discusses the US government’s exorbitant defense spending.
Mitt Romney SLAMS Tulsi Gabbard As Treasonous, Spreading ‘Russian Propaganda’ On Ukraine, US Biolabs
Dr. Rashad Richey and Philip Wegmann discuss Tulsi Gabbard’s comments on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Iran FIRES MISSILES Near US Consulate In Biden Test
Krystal and Saagar cover the Iranian attack on a US Consulate as the sanctions against Russia jeopardize the negotiations to renew the Iran Nuclear Deal first agreed to by the Obama administration
Putin WARNS US Military Aid Is ‘Legitimate Target’
Krystal and Saagar evaluate the warnings made by Putin that the US military aid to Ukraine will be targeted by Russia as the west continues sending weapons and support to Ukraine
Americans OPPOSE No-Fly Zone When Given Facts On It
People are ignorant and easily form strong opinions about things they know nothing about. Education is essential, and the MSM is failing us.
Biden’s TERRIFYING World War 3 Warning
Not a Biden fan but it’s clear that the incident in Ukraine has been a gift for polling. It has helped distract from domestic issues and other issues like the clusterfuck in Afghanistan and he has managed to walk a fine line between giving support to besieged Ukrainians […]
BATTLE UPDATE: Russia Hits NATO Doorstep, Ukrainians Suffer
Krystal and Saagar break down the battling happening in Ukraine over the past few days as cities in Ukraine get destroyed and Russia hits NATO at its doorstep
So Mitt Romney decided to go to war with Tulsi over Ukrainian bio-labs and HOO BOY DID HE STEP IN IT NOW
He’s pretty talented at business but he needs to stay in his own lane and stick with things where he knows what he’s talking about. By Harambe, Not the Bee Romney, you mess with a bull, you get the horns. I’m not here to weigh in on the […]
How a transgender Ukrainian man escaped Russia’s invasion: ‘I painted my nails violet and wore Mom’s shirt to look more girly.’
I would be looking to escape as well. This is a war between the two most corrupt countries in Europe, like showdown between the Bloods and the Crips. Who needs either one of them? By Bethany Dawson, Insider Andriy (not his real name) thought the major change in […]
‘Europeans with blue eyes, blonde hair being killed’: Media coverage of Ukraine criticised for racism
News Laundry The biggest news of the past week has been Russia’s military offensive against Ukraine. As news channels scrambled to provide round the clock coverage, several people pointed out “racism” in the way they presented their reports, especially compared with news reports of similar military offensives carried […]
The War Is Just Beginning
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic (Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reinvigorated Western alliances. The European Union, the United States, and other countries swiftly applied sanctions, triggering an unprecedented economic blackout. And yet Vladimir Putin is pressing on with more brutal tactics. […]
Pay Russian Soldiers To DESERT Ukraine War—It’s Cheaper Than Defense: Economics Professor
Professor of economics, Bryan D. Caplan, details Ukraine’s effort to bribe Russian soldiers into deserting.
If Ukraine WINS, This Is How
Marshall Kosloff of The Realignment podcast talks with counterinsurgency expert Dr. David Kilcullen about the state of Russia’s military and whether they could win a protracted war of occupation.
The Only Thing That Can Save Ukraine is Secession
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s super hip to give a fuck about Ukraine right now. Everybody’s doing it! All the cool kids anyway. Everywhere you look it’s blue and yellow, blue and yellow, blue and yellow. There seems to be a Ukrainian […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Trita Parsi-How Ukraine is Upending the Middle East
This week, we’re joined by Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. With Dr. Parsi, we discuss why this moment demands that the U.S. disentangle itself from hawkish, war-bent alliances, how the situation relates to Middle Eastern politics, Dr. Parsi’s strong case against […]
More Russian troops were killed in Ukraine in 2 weeks than U.S. troops in entire Iraq War, U.S. estimates
By Peter Weber The Week Russian forces continue to make inroads in southern Ukraine, but few military experts seem to think the war is going very well for Russia. The invading army has suffered “very, very significant casualties,” a U.S. official told CBS News on Wednesday, putting the U.S. […]
Stay & FIGHT Or FLEE? Krystal & Kyle Debate
I think it might also depend on your relationship to your country, its history etc. It’s not straightforward; let’s keep it real. A more interesting question worth asking is “What would you die for?” I think you might find that for some people their nation would be lower […]
Biden to Increase Defense Budget AGAIN, $425B+ Could Go To Private Contractors: Report
Host of the Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, weighs in reports that the Pentagon Defense Budget for FY 2023 could surpass $770 Billion.
House DOUBLES Ukraine Aid To $13.6B, ABANDONS Social Programs
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the $1.5T spending package passed by the House last night.
MTG CAUGHT Buying Defense Stocks While Decrying War Profits
Krystal and Saagar cover the decision by Marjorie Taylor Greene to buy the surging defense company stocks while she publicly decries the profits being made off war in Ukraine
The Russian Empire Strikes Back
By Razib Khan, City-Journal For many of us Cold War kids, the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and the battle between capitalism and global Communism were just background conditions of our youth. But in the United States, what we really talked about wasn’t the Soviets or the Communists […]
The Moscow Line: How is propaganda from Russia shaping the global context of the war in Ukraine?
The Signal How is propaganda from Russia shaping the global context of the war in Ukraine? Mike Smeltzer on the Kremlin’s program for manipulating the media at home and abroad. Western leaders are fighting an information war, as Russia continues to press its invasion of Ukraine. The European […]
Patterns In Propaganda During War Time
By Rachel Wilson It is always a challenge to get accurate information during wartime. You can also be sure that an avalanche of propaganda and disinformation are coming in the wake of such events in the world. It is said that propaganda is the most important front in […]
Perspectives Directly from Ukraine and Russia’s Governments
By Mikhaila Peterson In this episode, I spoke with two members of the government, one in Ukraine and one in Russia. I don’t believe these guys necessarily have the view of an average Russian or Ukrainian. However, they do represent people in their countries. First I spoke with […]
The Pathologies of Imperialism
By Harold James, Quillette February 24th, 2022, constituted a shock to the European psyche. The invasion of Ukraine, without any plausible casus belli, the massive use of military force against civilians, the attempted hunting down of a legitimately elected government, all came as a complete surprise. But so […]
Insurgencies, Resistance, and Russian Strategy and Tactic
For day three of The Realignment’s near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. David Kilcullen, a theorist and practitioner of guerilla and unconventional warfare. They cover the present state of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and whether the conflict could transition into a drawn-out war of resistance/insurgency. Dr. Kilcullen’s […]
Ilhan Omar DRAGGED for Based Ukraine Take
Krystal defends Congresswoman’s Ilhan Omar’s Russia-Ukraine decisions as she gets dragged in the media for not being sufficiently hawkish
What Can the Cold War Teach Us About Modern Conflict with Russia and China?
For day six of The Realignment’s near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Hal Brands, author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches About Great-Power Rivalry Today, John Hopkins University professor, AEI Resident Fellow, and Bloomberg columnist. They discussed America’s successes and failures during the Cold War, […]
S Korea FIRES At N Korea As North Begins REBUILDING Nukes |
Misleading headline. The South firing WARNING shots isn’t the South firing AT the North.
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