Is Russia’s Least Bad Option Now the Maximalist Stance of Taking Control of Western Ukraine?
Is Russia moving towards the perceived necessity of subduing western Ukraine? And how might that work?
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The Food War, the Grain Deal, and the Real Deal
The West is trying to use the Ukraine grain deal to stymie Russia…..with ample support from the UN’s Guterres.
Read more...Insurers Signal Fallout From Sanctions On Russia
UK maritime insurers are daring to speak up about the way they have become Russian sanctions collateral damage.
Read more...Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine
The ranks of Ukraine and US hegemony believers are starting to thin. But not soon enough.
Read more...The West Continues to Devour Its Own
The knives are increasingly coming out for Hungary, which is the only country in the EU willing to speak up about the ongoing insanity of the bloc’s positions regarding Russia and China.
Read more...Ukraine: Bleeding Out
A plea to analysts and commentators with access to information: when Ukraine runs out of materiel will be decisive.
Read more...Here’s Why Oil Flows Can Only Be Redirected, Not Stopped
At least over the time frame of the sanctions against Russia, oil demand had looked inelastic.
Read more...What Does Erdogan’s Reelection Mean for the New Cold War?
With nationalists empowered in parliament and the West all but certain to keep up the with-us-or-against-us pressure, Turkiye moving closer to the East appears more likely.
Read more...US Geopolitics: Believing Impossible Things
On the global stage, US can only barely keep up the pretense that it is not losing its mind.
Read more...Some US National Security Experts Call for Peace in Ukraine
While it is now acceptable to suggest negotiating an end to the Ukraine conflict, that’s still a long way from a needed consensus.
Read more...Ukraine’s Neoliberalism on Steroids, Europe’s Economic Suicide
Yves here. Sit back and enjoy yet another discussion between Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson, this time joined by Professor Mick Dunford at the Geopolitical Hour. Today’s tour starts with Ukraine, moves to Russia, and then continues to Europe, the US and China. It is noteworthy to see the Western media act as if Europe’s […]
Read more...Turkiye Has Its Own Russiagate as Election Heads to Runoff
In run-up to the vote the opposition candidate claimed (without evidence) that Moscow was interfering in the election.
Read more...The EU Looks Doomed to Repeat its Russia “De-Risking” Strategy with China
Plans are lacking, but that hasn’t stopped Brussels before.
Read more...NY Times Is Wrong on Dedollarization: Economist Michael Hudson Debunks Paul Krugman’s Dollar Defense
Michael Hudson calls out Krugman for invoking the favorite libertarian trope of hyperinflation.
Read more...William Astore: How American Learned to Love, or at Least Not Hate, Its Nuclear Bombs
William Astore recalls his encounters with icons of US nuclear development, and is sad they are still with us.
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