Economists Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson Explain Multipolarity, Decline of US Hegemony
The new year gets off to a rousing start with the launch of a new bi-weekly talk show with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson.
Read more...Category Archives: Russia
The Ukrainian Demilitarized Zone – “Negotiations” Start at a Dead End
The bizarre Ukrainian claim that Russia is seeking negotiations and even offering up a DMZ provides a window into the state of disarray.
Read more...Sweden Won’t Meet Türkiye Demands to Win Its Vote on NATO Membership
Sweden reneged on its Türkiye NATO vote deal. This should be solvable except the West wants to punish Türkiye and Türkiye isn’t up for that.
Read more...US Takeover of Greece Pushes Türkiye Closer to Russia and Increases Odds of Athens-Ankara Conflict
Athens throws a decades-long good relationship with Moscow out the window and opens the door wide to US military and business interests.
Read more...Zelensky’s Bloody War Against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
A bloody attack on a Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest, close to the Orthodox Christmas, in a church….and sanctioned by the government.
Read more...Ukraine and Russia: Waiting for the Next Phase?
Why Ukraine may be under even more pressure than Russia to Do Something when the ground finally freezes in Ukraine.
Read more...Worst of Europe’s Energy Crisis May Be Yet To Come
Just because the weather gods are now smiling on Europe does not mean its energy crunch is over.
Read more...Can NATO and the Pentagon Find a Diplomatic Off-Ramp from the Ukraine War?
A piece about NATO’s recent noises re Ukraine sadly reveals how supposedly non-captured, well-meaning activists have lost the plot.
Read more...Ukraine: When Will It Reach the End of Its Propaganda Line?
Is Ukraine’s spin getting threadbare?
Read more...War Of The Worlds Begins In Your Neighborhood “Because — German Chancellor Merkel Has Just Declared — Russia Was Never Pacified”
It can’t be said often enough how much damage Merkel did by using Minsk as a clever ploy to hurt Russia and worse now admitting to it.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: Rosneft Refinery in Schwedt as a Microcosm of Europe’s Sanctions-Induced Energy Mess
A Rosneft refinery in Germany illustrates how difficult it is to get back to anything resembling status quo ante under sanctions.
Read more...The Ukraine Crisis Is a Classic “Security Dilemma”
Some well-meaning but going-nowhere peace ideas for Ukraine.
Read more...Russia Says Europe Will Struggle To Replace Its Oil Products
More debate over the impact of Western sanctions on oil price.
Read more...NATO’s Ghosts of the Past Return in Kosovo-Serbia
Serbian president says the situation now resembles the “Chekhov’s gun” narrative principle: “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.”
Read more...Russia Sitrep of Sorts
Yet again reading the Russia/Ukraine tea leaves.
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