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Nexus X HumectressAgainst Annexations and Imperial Aggression: A Statement from Russian Anarchists against Russian Aggression in Ukraine Yesterday, on February 21, an extraordinary meeting of the Russian Security Council was held. As part of this theatrical act, Putin forced his closest servants to publicly “ask” him to recognize the independence […]
Tankie round two! Caleb Maupin and AnCom Brent Legnel join us. Lively and fun discussion on the situation in Ukraine, Cancel Culture and the alt-right, as well as anything that comes to mind!
By Eric Zuesse Modern Diplomacy This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the U.S. and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had […]
By Ted Galen Carpenter There is an abundance of outrage in the United States about Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Multiple investigations are taking place, and Moscow’s conduct was a major justification for the sanctions legislation that Congress just passed. Some furious political figures and members of the media […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the recent developments in the Russo-Ukrainian war and broader geopolitical implications.
“Scary Gary” was nothing if not controversial. Faketarians This post was made by Ron Paul yesterday in response to the deaths of two men. I’m only familiar with one of them: Gary North. While I’m not one to celebrate anyone’s death and totally understand expressing condolences, Ron Paul’s […]
By Craig Bulkeley When Gary Kilgore North passed away on February 24, 2022, at the age of 80, he left behind a massive storehouse of Christian scholarship without parallel in the modern church. For nearly fifty-five straight and solid years he applied himself as a craftsman with single-mind […]
By Alexander Aston Alright folks, it’s time for some analysis. Make no mistake, Putin has very real, very serious geostrategic goals in Ukraine and has made a very calculated move. We are witnessing the beginnings of an extended structural re-organisation of geopolitics that will be going on for […]
By Francis Fukuyama Quillette Vladimir Putin has launched a massive military assault on Ukraine, with the stated purpose of overthrowing the democratically-elected regime there and replacing it with one subservient to Moscow. Russian forces have arrived in the suburbs of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Ukraine is a country I […]
By Tess Owen VICE Far-right personalities have declared Russia a beacon of anti-wokeness and Putin a strong ethnonationalist. White nationalist livestreamer Nicholas Fuentes has made no secret of where his loyalties lie in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “I wish Putin was president of America,” he mused to his 45,000 […]
By Ruchi Kumar, National Post It was Masouma Tajik’s birthday on Wednesday. The Afghan refugee spent the day alone, wandering the streets of Lviv, trying to make it the best day she could in her new home. “I got a small cake, and made a wish for a […]
Yesterday afternoon, Marshall and Saagar recorded an emergency podcast reacting to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and answered audience questions.
This interview was recorded on Tuesday 15th February before Russia invaded Ukraine. Professor John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served […]
From 2018. On September 27, 2018, Yale’s Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism hosted Vladimir Pozner, the acclaimed Russian-American journalist and broadcaster. Pozner spoke on the impact of US foreign policy towards Russia after the Soviet Union has been disbanded, […]
Peter Pan Maoism and Minon Communism.
–The “alt left” has been painfully wrong on the Putin-Ukraine-Russia situation, and we explore why and what happened
–Republican voters have a higher favorability for Vladimir Putin than they do of Democrats
In her CPAC address, Friday, former Democratic primary candidate and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said that she has heard boos from both parties when it was announced she would be speaking at CPAC.
By Peter Zeihan on February 25, 2022 I thought it would be helpful to collect our recent newsletters on the subject of Russia and Ukraine in a single place for easy reference. As a reminder, the Zeihan on Geopolitics newsletter is free, and a searchable archive of all past […]
The UN Security Council is the international version of the Five Families of New York. The Americans are analogous to the Gambinos in the sense of being the international crime family that has the longest reach and decades of dominance behind it. The Chinese are analogous to the […]
By Jeva Lange The Week Demonstrations broke out across Russia on Thursday evening as citizens protested President Vladmir Putin’s ongoing attack on Ukraine. Police, apparently anticipating the unrest, “moved swiftly to stifle any dissent at home,” The Daily Beast reports, including preemptively arresting known activists before they even […]
By Jeva Lange The Week Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has sparked near-universal condemnation — including, on Friday, by the Taliban. In an official “statement concerning [the] crisis in Ukraine,” the Taliban, which governs Afghanistan, formally called for “restraint by both parties” in the crisis and expressed concern about the […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week The thing that makes Ketanji Brown Jackson such an excellent nominee to the Supreme Court is also the thing that makes her ripe for attacks from Republicans: She once served as a public defender — the very first one ever appointed to the […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week On the afternoon of Aug. 5, 1990, President George H.W. Bush appeared at a press conference on the South Lawn of the White House. After reviewing developments related to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Bush took questions from reporters. The last elicited the most […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Sitting in my comfortable suburban Philadelphia home, watching horrific events unfold half a world away in Ukraine while protected by the most powerful military the world has ever known, I feel overwhelmed with sadness. Yes, of course, for the suffering and shattered aspirations […]
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish Putin has called the West’s bluff. Xi will not have failed to notice. Over the last few months, a conversation I had 30 years ago keeps popping into my consciousness. It was the end of the Cold War, and a post-Soviet Russian state […]
By Sean Gabb For reasons that escape my understanding, someone at The Daily Mail called me a few hours ago to ask my opinion on the present war between Russia and the Ukraine. Our discussion was organised about four questions. Here is the generality of what I said […]
Be careful what you wish for, neocons. By Harald Uhlig City-Journal “Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came?” went a 1960s antiwar slogan. Stell Dir vor, es ist Krieg, und Keiner geht hin is the German version. It’s still popular in Germany, a country of peaceniks. Germans’ […]
By Tessa Lena I am about to post a very interesting conversation with Riley Waggaman on “COVID Russia” (will send in a second) but before I do that, I want to emit a scream and talk about the war. Several things to say. One, this situation is terrible. […]
It appears the Russian public is split on Ukraine.
Kim Iversen and retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis discuss the latest developments following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Kim Iversen and Hill reporter, Julia Manchester, preview President Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The Daily Poster’s Andrew Perez discusses corporate influence on our country’s climate crisis response.
State senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale discusses her run for U.S. Congress.
Team Rising discusses the Biden administration’s failure to re-extend the child tax credit.
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Melik Abdul react to the Fed’s decision to bar officials from trading stocks, crypto, and bonds.
Team Rising discusses new data showing a record number of Millenials are postponing or forgoing marriage, homeownership, and children.
For what? We already have Halloween. And around the same time of year as well. Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss whether election day should become a national holiday.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the morality of using animal subjects in scientific experimentation.
Ok,… this is annoying the crap out of me for some reason… Is Kyiv pronounced ‘Keev’ or ‘Key-ev’? This invasion is the first time I’ve ever heard it pronounced ‘Keev’. From Texas Governor Abbott’s cruel attack on trans kids and their families to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s […]
It’s Going Down Caught between rival factions of the ruling class and the escalating possibility of world war, the exploited and excluded of the Ukraine now find themselves assaulted by an all out invasion by Putin. While authoritarians on the Left, Right and in the Center cheer on […]
Slavery never went away.
The Invasion of Ukraine and Russian Product Exports Now that the question of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has proven itself not to be a hypothetical, Western governments will be pushed to respond. The United States and its European allies are likely to pursue a sanctions campaign, but […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the recent developments in the Russo-Ukrainian war and broader geopolitical implications.
By Josh Gerstein Politico President Joe Biden has selected D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, making history by picking a Black woman for the nation’s highest court, two sources familiar with the situation told POLITICO. Jackson, […]
New York Times President Vladimir Putin said he was open to talks after Kyiv said it would discuss adopting “neutral status.” Earlier, Russia’s foreign minister said Moscow would not negotiate until Ukraine stopped fighting. READ MORE
Russia Today The Ukrainian president has formally invited his Russian counterpart to engage in diplomatic talks over the current crisis. Speaking on Friday, the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, extended an olive branch to Russian President Vladimir Putin, proposing negotiations, as fighting continues throughout the country and clashes get […]
By Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage Foreign Affairs When Russia joined the ongoing civil war in Syria, in the summer of 2015, it shocked the United States and its partners. Out of frustration, then President Barack Obama claimed that Syria would become a “quagmire” for Russia and Russian […]
By Theo Wayt New York Post Elon Musk and his younger brother are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission over whether the siblings violated insider trading laws, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The probe reportedly centers on Kimbal Musk’s sale in November of 88,500 […]
What is Moscow thinking? Anatol Lieven on the brutal calculations behind Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Even as Russian armed forces destroy much of Ukraine’s military capability and ground troops push toward the country’s major cities—with at least dozens of civilians already dead and hundreds more wounded—Vladimir Putin’s ultimate intentions […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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