Efforts to crush the Russian diamond trade come when the industry is under duress. Why might the comparatively small Russian exports survive?
Read more...Germany continues to self-destruct, more austerity planned for EU, Ursula von der Leyen’s “tools” are sharpened to deal with prole backlash.
Read more...Yves here. It’s quite a big claim that members of the US military would leak a recording of German generals scheming to strike Russia with Taurus missiles to Russia. But then again, given that the US blew up the NordStream pipeline, it’s not as if the US regards Germany as anything other that a state […]
Read more...German plotting, French bluster, domestic polling, and possible Russian countermoves and next steps.
Read more...Some ruminations on the role of the CIA, particularly its relationship to Presidents.
Read more...A careful reading of a sighting in what may be a new campaign to shore up Western hopes in the light of Russia’s military outproduction.
Read more...Foreign Affiars recycles a 75-year-old strategy from George Kennan that no longer fits the geopolitical realities of the world in 2024.
Read more...More discussion of whether Victoria Nuland jumped or was pushed, and what that might say about US politics and foreign policy.
Read more...Victoria Nuland is leaving but sadly the considerable damage she has done will endure.
Read more...The Silicon Valley citadel of capitalism is built on eugenics, bombs, and hatred of the working class, and it’s destroying the world.
Read more...Even as the West is in crisis and prepares to turn its back on Ukraine it helped destroy, Armenian leaders see that and say “I want in.”
Read more...Why are European elites “on the side of Ukraine’s freedom” so eager to curb freedoms at home? The silencing of opposing viewpoints accelerates in Italy as support for Project Ukraine declines.
Read more...How a conflict between Poland and West Ukraine after the end of World War I has ramifications today.
Read more...Some expert Russian input on what might be coming next for Ukraine.
Read more...In-fighting between Navalny camps, one around his mother, the other his wife, raises more questions about official pronouncements.
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