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Time Runs Out on U.S. Opposition to Nordstream 2
Time Runs Out on U.S. Opposition to Nordstream 2 The Nordstream 2 pipeline represents the last stand of U.S. influence over the internal affairs of Europe. Once finished it will stand as a testament to the fundamental split between the European Union and the United States. Europe will this as its first successful defense of its […]
EU is Steadily Moving Towards Creation of 1984-Style Ministry of Truth
EU IS STEADILY MOVING TOWARDS CREATION OF 1984-STYLE MINISTRY OF TRUTH The European Parliament passed a recommendation calling Russia “the main source of disinformation in Europe” and appealing for increased funding for the EU’s East StratCom Task Force, which already got 1.1 million euros in 2018. HINT: The East StratCom Task Force is a EU body focused on so-called proactive […]
China Offers To Help Venezuela Restore Power As Maduro Accuses Trump, Guaido Of “Sabotage”
China Offers To Help Venezuela Restore Power As Maduro Accuses Trump, Guaido Of “Sabotage” China offered on Wednesday to help Venezuela repair its power grid after the country was plunged into its worst blackout on record, now in its sixth day, reports Reuters. With the power blackout in its sixth day, hospitals struggled to keep equipment running, food rotted […]
Putin Now Thinks Western Elites Are ‘Swine’
Putin Now Thinks Western Elites Are ‘Swine’ An article I published close to five years ago, “Putin to Western elites: Play-time is over”, turned out to be the most popular thing I’ve written so far, having garnered over 200,000 reads over the intervening years. In it I wrote about Putin’s speech at the 2014 Valdai […]
Saudi Arabia Is the World’s Top Arms Buyer
Saudi Arabia Is the World’s Top Arms Buyer Saudis increased purchases 192% over five years Jason Ditz Posted on March 10, 2019Categories NewsTags Saudi Arabia Most reports on international arms sales focus on the biggest sellers. That inevitably means the United States, the largest exporter by far in the growing market. You can’t have sales without buyers, however, and that […]
The Orientalism of Western Russophobia
The Orientalism of Western Russophobia An illustration from a Wall Street Journal article entitled “Russia’s Turn to its Asian Past” depicting Vladimir Putin as Genghis Khan. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the publication of Edward W. Said’s pioneering book, Orientalism, as well as fifteen years since the Palestinian-American intellectual’s passing. To bid farewell to […]
The Kremlin’s Military Posture Reconsidered
The Kremlin’s Military Posture Reconsidered To the vast majority of Americans, including the foreign policy establishment, the question posed in the title may seem something of a joke. After all, absolute military superiority over Russia and other potential rivals for global influence has been the objective of US military policy for the last twenty-five years […]
Final Steps of the Multipolar Revolution: Containing the US in Europe
Final Steps of the Multipolar Revolution: Containing the US in Europe We discussed in the previous article how China and Russia are using diplomatic, economic and military means in areas like Asia and the Middle East to contain the belligerence and chaos unleashed by the United States. In this analysis, we will examine the extent to which this […]
US Deploys Special Forces To Puerto Rico, Colombia Ahead Of Venezuela Invasion, Russia Claims
US Deploys Special Forces To Puerto Rico, Colombia Ahead Of Venezuela Invasion, Russia Claims Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev told Argumenty i Fakty that the US is deploying military assets to Puerto Rico and Colombia for a future military intervention in Venezuela to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power. “Showing sarcasm and arrogance towards the Venezuelan people, the United States is preparing a military […]
What If They Started a War and No One Showed Up?
What If They Started a War and No One Showed Up? The humiliation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Warsaw last week was a good thing. The ancient Greeks, exercising their demonstrated ability to synthesize defining characteristics, had a word for it: hubris. Hubris is when one develops an extreme and unreasonable […]
“For Now, We’re Not Threatening Anyone”: Russian TV Lists Nuclear Targets In The US
“For Now, We’re Not Threatening Anyone”: Russian TV Lists Nuclear Targets In The US With US-Russia relations deteriorating rapidly in the aftermath of the collapse of the INF nuclear arms treaty, which prompted Russia’s Vladimir Putin to slam the US for “demolishing” global security, Russian state television listed U.S. military facilities that Moscow would target in […]
Here is what experts say about Putin’s threat to aim missiles at US
Here is what experts say about Putin’s threat to aim missiles at US His fiery speech was more about creating headlines in Russia, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no reason to worry. “Russia will be forced to create and deploy types of weapons which can be used not only in respect of those territories […]
Russia and China Are Containing the US to Reshape the World Order
Russia and China Are Containing the US to Reshape the World Order Fortunately the world today is very different from that of 2003, Washington’s decrees are less effective in determining the world order. But in spite of this new, more balanced division of power amongst several powers, Washington appears ever more aggressive towards allies and […]
Italian Meddling at French Maidan: When Will Russia Be Accused?
Italian Meddling at French Maidan: When Will Russia Be Accused? Cutting diplomatic relations and sending one’s ambassador back home are acts associated with declaring war, which is what makes France’s decision to pull their ambassador out of Rome very unusual to say the least. The rhetoric from the French side even gives off a sort […]
