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Russia Warns NATO Against Sending Any Troops To Ukraine As “Frightening” Escalation Looms
Russia Warns NATO Against Sending Any Troops To Ukraine As “Frightening” Escalation Looms The Kremlin’s latest statements out Friday amid the potential new Ukraine crisis which has seen a serious flare-up in fighting in the Donbass region, along with what appears to be far bigger-than-usual troop movements on Russia’s side of the border, has raised […]
Dangerous Crossroads: NATO’s Attempted Infringement of Russia’s Airspace and Maritime Borders
Dangerous Crossroads: NATO’s Attempted Infringement of Russia’s Airspace and Maritime Borders Recent attempted infringements of Russia’s airspace and maritime borders by NATO are very dangerous instances of de-facto brinksmanship intended to provoke the Eurasian Great Power into reacting in a way that could then be manipulated as the “plausible pretext” for imposing further pressure upon […]
Is War With China Becoming Inevitable?
Is War With China Becoming Inevitable? Tensions are rising between the U.S. and China, as the list of ideological, political and economic clashes continues to lengthen. And there is a transparent new reality: China seems in no mood to back down. “The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border,” Secretary of State […]
The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot…2.0
The Taiwan Strait Getting Hot, Hot, Hot…2.0 We originally posted the following in October 2018 after President Trump threw Montenegro, then the newest member of NATO under the bus a few months earlier. We suspected POTUS’ loose lips would someday sink ships, at least metaphorically, if not literally. The flapping of his jaws back in July 2018, […]
They Only Serve Themselves
They Only Serve Themselves Caspar David Friedrich The Monk by the Sea c1809“The Kremlin” poisoned their “fierce rival” Navalny with the infamous deadly agent novichok. That is the headline. Only, the German accusation in that direction doesn’t say novichok, its says a “cholinesterase inhibitor”, of which novichok is just one example, was used. The news outlets must […]
An appropriate European Union response to tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean
An appropriate European Union response to tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean If the European Union can mediate effectively to resolve current Greek-Turkish tensions over energy in the Eastern Mediterranean, it could also provide an opportunity to tackle more deep-rooted problems. The European Union is seeking to mediate in a naval confrontation on its doorstep, in […]
Putin Sees US & Iran Headed Toward War – Proposes Urgent World Summit To Stop It
Putin Sees US & Iran Headed Toward War – Proposes Urgent World Summit To Stop It Russia thinks war between the US and Iran is on the horizon, and is proposing steps to stop it: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday proposed a video summit with the United States, Britain, France, China, Germany and Iran […]
US Threatens European backers of Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, NATO in DC’s Crosshairs
US Threatens European backers of Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, NATO in DC’s Crosshairs The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is nearing completion despite all the best efforts by the U.S. to stop its construction, causing a rift between Washington and its largest European ally and the potential end of NATO. The U.S. is starting to fret […]
21 Years Ago: The end of the Bombing of Serbia. And the Start of the Decline of the Western Empire
21 Years Ago: The end of the Bombing of Serbia. And the Start of the Decline of the Western Empire Nato Bombing of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia, 1999 (image from Wikipedia) 21 years ago, on June 10, 1999, the NATO campaign against Serbia ended after 78 days of bombing. We still don’t know […]
A Machiavellian US in the Middle East
A Machiavellian US in the Middle East The war in Syria has dropped out of the news, like almost everything else, in a time when the Coronavirus seems to dominate all discourse and reporting. But the regime of Bashar al-Assad continues to strangle its own country. The Russians continue to bomb on his behalf, terrifying […]
Russia Blames Turkey For Its 33 Troops Killed Embedded With “Terrorists”; Turkey Vows To Escalate
Russia Blames Turkey For Its 33 Troops Killed Embedded With “Terrorists”; Turkey Vows To Escalate “We have fought Russia 16 times in the past, and we will fight it again,” Turkish adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mesut Hakki Casin, has warned after Thursday’s dramatic escalation involving the deaths of some 33 Turkish soldiers in Idlib via airstrike, in the single deadliest […]
Never Trust a Failing Empire
Never Trust a Failing Empire The Washington Post, through documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, has published a long investigation into Afghanistan. Journalists have collected over 400 testimonies from American diplomats, NATO generals and other NATO personnel, that show that reports about Afghanistan were falsified to deceive the public about the real situation on the ground. […]
FREXIT – Is France Hurling toward Exiting the EU?
FREXIT – Is France Hurling toward Exiting the EU? France is by no means calming down. There is a major underlying problem in France which is rising to the surface in direct confrontation with the government and Macron’s ambition to lead Europe. Macron’s confrontation with Trump over NATO is a reflection of a historical posture […]
Rabobank: “The Global Institutional Architecture Is Collapsing”
Rabobank: “The Global Institutional Architecture Is Collapsing” It’s December, and the start of the season of good will to all and peace on earth. Not much of that about, of course. In the UK, the election has been interrupted by the terrorist attack at London Bridge, which both sides are naturally playing politics with in […]
