Slouching Towards Reverse Colonialism
How sanctions against Russia are achieving the polar opposite of what colonialism was all about: controlling and exploiting resources.
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Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 1: Fracture
Satyajit Das provides a multi-facted overview of how key world structures are breaking as the US fights to preseve its imperial hold.
Read more...IEA: The Current Energy Crisis Is Unprecedented
The IEA has finally, late in the game, goten the nerve to sound alarms about energy shortages. But nary a word about the role of sanctions
Read more...Wall Street Journal on “U.S.-Saudi Relations Buckle” Focuses on Personalities Over End of Unipolar Era
Even though Biden as always is making a bad situation worse, the US-Saudi relationship looks destined to have gone off the rails.
Read more...“The US Signals Readiness to Launch Nuclear Strike Against Russia”
How Russia is reading Western, particularly US, nuke talk.
Read more...Western Narrative Escalation Over Ukraine War: A Warning of Coming Strong Countermeasures? Or a Sign of Desperate Impotence?
The Western press has gotten even more screechy as the Ukraine Kherson offensive has yet to materialize. What could this portend?
Read more...Türkiye Resisting US Pressure Against Increasing Economic Ties to Russia
Türkiye is resisting US pressure on the most important anti-Russian measures. Will the US be smart enough to find and meet Türkiye’s price?
Read more...Ukraine War: Russia Preparing for More Terrorism?
Russia is taking a series of impotant new measures. Taken together, they suggest an effort to lower exposure to terrorism.
Read more...Brussels Provides Not-So-Subtle Input on Italy’s Next Government
By Conor Gallagher While incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy Party (Fdl) certainly provide plenty of nationalist and culture war sound bites, they will ultimately be forced to follow EU and NATO marching orders, or they won’t be in power very long. Now that two cabinet picks from Meloni and […]
Read more...What Next in the Electric War for Ukraine – How Marshal Kutuzov’s Golden Bridge for Napoleon’s Retreat Is Working Today
John Helmer’s update on the logic and progress of Russia’s attacks on the Ukraine electric grid.
Read more...Diesel Crisis Deepens As Inventories Fall To Dangerous Levels
Diesel fuel is in scarcer supply than ever. Shortages coming?
Read more...Vietnam Army General Giap on How To Win, British Armchair General Freedman on How To Lose
Sir Lawrence Freedman declares victory for Ukraine is inevitable because Putin.
Read more...EU Plays Hardball With Serbia Over Its Russia Ties
By Conor Gallagher Much like Ankara, Belgrade has tried to stay above the fray in the conflict between NATO and Russia. While Serbia doesn’t share the same geographic significance and isn’t a member of NATO like Turkey, it is one of Russia’s strongest allies in Europe, and is now receiving the same pressure to choose […]
Read more...Is the UK About to Hit the Wall?
The UK is in sorry shape…..and is looking like the canary in the economic coal mine.
Read more...Why the Soviet Union Imploded
The Soviet Union depended on energy sales and consumer production stagnated. Reforms promoted the rise of oligarchs and the 1990s free fall.
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