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Zelensky Trapped By Moscow And Washington
Zelensky Trapped By Moscow And Washington
I was talking to an open-minded leader of the European Parliament in Brussels ten days ago, and I listened to him tell me that the Ukrainian conflict was certainly complex, but that the most obvious thing was that Russia had invaded that country. I replied by observing that international law obliged Germany, France and Russia to implement resolution 2202, which Moscow alone had done. I continued…
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Endgame In Ukraine Struggling To Be Born
Endgame In Ukraine Struggling To Be Born
At the White House press conference on November 9, when asked about the evacuation of the Russian forces from the Kherson Region and Kherson city, the US President Joe Biden said, “First of all, I found it interesting they (Moscow) waited until after the (midterm) election to make that judgement, which we knew for some time that they were going to be doing.”
Biden added, “at a minimum, it will…
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How U.S.-And-Allied Billionaires Got Progressives To Be Called ‘Fascists’ Now, And Fascists To Be Called ‘Liberals’ Now
How U.S.-And-Allied Billionaires Got Progressives To Be Called ‘Fascists’ Now, And Fascists To Be Called ‘Liberals’ Now
The examples that will be documented here will be the current Government of Italy, which the billionaires’ ‘news’-media often call ‘fascist’, and the longstanding Government of America, which — when it is controlled by today’s Democratic Party — is routinely called ‘progressive’. Both ideological characterizations will here be challenged:
The top commitment of progressives or “leftists” was…
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Thuggish Ways: Mike Pompeo, Punishing Leakers And Getting Assange
Thuggish Ways: Mike Pompeo, Punishing Leakers And Getting Assange
Poor, silly, protuberant Mike Pompeo. The stocky, irritated former CIA director and former Secretary of State is rather upset that those who worked under him dared wag their tongues about Julian Assange. The wagging so happened to relate to contemplated plans of abduction and assassination, something the US executive formally disallows though permits via various devious mechanisms.
It’s not…
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Who Are The Ukrainian Integral Nationalists?
Who Are The Ukrainian Integral Nationalists?
Like most Western political analysts and commentators, I was unaware of the existence of Ukrainian neo-Nazis until 2014. When the president-elect was overthrown, I was living in Syria at the time and thought they were violent groupings that had burst onto the public scene to assist pro-European elements. However, since the Russian military intervention, I have gradually discovered a lot of…
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Russia Strategises With Iran For The Long Haul In Ukraine
Russia Strategises With Iran For The Long Haul In Ukraine
Ignoring the hype in the US media about White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Kissingerian diplomacy over Ukraine, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, former KGB counterintelligence officer and longstanding associate of President Putin, travelled to Tehran last Wednesday in the equivalent of a knockout punch in geopolitics.
Patrushev called on President…
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#ake Sullivan#Ali Shamkhani#Ebrahim Raisi#NATO#Nikolai Patrushev#Shanghai Cooperation Organisation#Special military operation
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Ukraine's Military Strategy and U.S. National Interests (II)
Ukraine’s Military Strategy and U.S. National Interests (II)
Part I
However, if one turns to the United States, on which both the Ukrainian army’s fighting ability and Kiev’s political decisions largely depend, one has to wonder – why are they doing this? One may get the impression that this position of the U.S. is in their national interest – to further pump Ukraine with weapons, thereby delaying a special military operation on the part of Russia and…
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The G20 Is Dead. Long Live The G20
The G20 Is Dead. Long Live The G20
The seventeenth G20 Heads of State and Government Summit held in Bali, Indonesia, on 15–16 November stands out as a consequential event from many angles. The international politics is at an inflection point and the transition will not leave unaffected any of the institutions inherited from the past that is drifting away forever.
However, the G20 can be an exception in bridging time past with time…
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Ukraine's Military Strategy And U.S. National Interests (I)
Ukraine’s Military Strategy And U.S. National Interests (I)
The current actions of the AFU in the Kherson direction and the forced withdrawal of the Russian army have inspired unhealthy optimism in both the junta in Kiev and its Western patrons. It is widely believed, with references to various Western politicians and military officials, that Kherson is not a strategically important hub from which it is possible to control Crimea (and strike at it), but…
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The Polish Missile Narrative
The Polish Missile Narrative
Wars tend to bury facts. What comes out of them is often a furiously untidy mix of accounts that, when considered later, constitute wisps of fantasy and presumption. Rarely accepted in the heat of battle is the concept of mistake: that a weapon was wrongly discharged or errantly hit an unintended target; a deployment that went awry; or that the general was drunk when an order was given. Wars…
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U.S. Will Have Spent $100B On Ukraine This Year
U.S. Will Have Spent $100B On Ukraine This Year
On November 15th, U.S. President Joe Biden requested Congress to allocate another $37.7 billion to Ukraine, and the Democratic Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the neoconservative Gregory Meeks of New York, said it was “urgent to make sure that we get them everything that we can … so that they have the weapons to continue the momentum moving through the winter,” against the…
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Privacy Woes: Google’s “Location History” Settlement
Privacy Woes: Google’s “Location History” Settlement
It all speaks to scale: the attorney generals of 40 states within the US clubbing together to charge Google for misleading users. On this occasion, the conduct focused on making users assume they had turned off the location tracking function on their accounts even as the company continued harvesting data about them.
The $391.5 billion settlement was spearheaded by Oregon Attorney General Ellen…
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Russia’s Kherson Withdrawal Is Tactical
Russia’s Kherson Withdrawal Is Tactical
General Mark Milley, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States assessed that it would take several weeks for Moscow to complete the evacuation of some 30,000 Russian troops deployed in Kherson city in southern Ukraine. But Russians have announced that the evacuation was successfully completed in 2 days — both soldiers and over 5000 pieces of heavy equipment.
Evidently, much advance…
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The Sense In Which The Nazis Won WW II
The Sense In Which The Nazis Won WW II
Hitler wasn’t the Nazi Party — it existed even before he became a member.
This isn’t to deny his importance to the Party; but, as I found when I read through all of his writings and reliably transcribed statements in his speeches, private notes, etc., during the research for my 2000 WHY the Holocaust Happened, the extermination of all Jews had actually been an even higher priority in his mind…
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Europe: A Half-Life Period
Europe: A Half-Life Period
Senior EU officials have been calling for unity and solidarity more and more often lately. This has happened so often that one wonders whether this unity exists in the form to which the continent has become accustomed over the past decades. In addition, if we follow the principle of cyclicality in history, a curious picture emerges.
One of the results of World War I was the collapse of several…
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The Secret Wars Of The US Imperium
The Secret Wars Of The US Imperium
To get to where they are, imperial powers will deceive, dissimulate and distort. The US imperium, that most awesome of devilish powers, has tentacled itself across the globe, often unbeknownst to its own citizens.
In a report released by the New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center of Justice titled Secret War: How the US Uses Partnerships and Proxy Forces to Wage War Under the Radar,…
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Biden Nods To Compromise In Ukraine
Biden Nods To Compromise In Ukraine
The midterm elections in the US witnessed razor-thin races as Senate and House control hangs in the balance. But that didn’t discourage President Biden from holding a press conference on Wednesday to stake claim that the “giant red wave” didn’t happen.
Biden said: “Democrats had a strong night. And we lost fewer seats in the House of Representatives than any Democratic President’s first midterm…
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