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Trump’s Economic Team Pursues the Chimera of Collapsing the Russian Economy
I don’t know US Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Scott Bessent, but I am told by people who worked with him on Wall Street that he is a really smart guy. But based on his most recent claim over the weekend that he believes a new round of sanctions — which includes...
Can Trump re-adjust in the post-Tianjin SCO moment? Was the timing of China ‘throwing down the SCO gauntlet’ entirely fortuitous?
The gloves are off. The SCO Summit was a clear demonstration of the reality of power starkly coalescing, on the one hand, and one of power visibly ebbing, on the other. The amazing military parade was the summit counterpart – it spoke loudly: You want to take us on?...
Von der Leyen Is Lying About Russian GPS Interference
There is reason why the name of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is often mangled into von der Lying. She is notoriously negligent with facts. Here she is caught outright lying to spread fake anti-Russian propaganda. When I read the...
Why On Earth is the Ukraine War Still Going Strong?
It seems like so little changes in the Ukraine conflict, many commentators and writers just keep repeating themselves a thousand times in the last few years. That is not to say that reputable and trustworthy ones haven't said things that were true, perhaps getting...
There will be no peace in Ukraine until Washington admits to itself it has lost the war
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told NBC’s Kristen Welker of Meet the Press that no meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is currently in the works. The Russian diplomat indicated his government is not interested...
U.S. Naive to Think Russia Would Lay Down Arms While Winning War in Ukraine –Daniel McAdams
President Trump is suggesting the U.S. should change the name of the Department of Defense back to the “Department of War,” as his commerce secretary teases plans for the U.S. government to acquire equity stakes in top defense contractors. Trump may be claiming he’s...
Neocons Responsible For Russian-Ukraine War
On August 16, my wife, Vickie, and I attended a conference at the Dulles Airport Hilton just outside Washington, D.C. It was titled “A Blueprint For Peace” and was hosted by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. This institute was started by Rep. Paul at...
Trump as ‘Myth’ is Understood in Moscow. They Reciprocate
Trump’s ascent to a portion of the “Mythic” has become only too evident. As John Greer has observed: It’s becoming difficult even for the most dyed-in-the-wool rationalist to go on believing that Trump’s political career can be understood in the prosaic terms of...
Good for Woody Allen
As the United States and Russia governments have over the last decade-plus drifted into relations that bring to mind the cold war and that have brought forward the prospect of descent into nuclear war, there has been much effort from within America and other NATO...
Friedrich Merz Are You Nuts?
Do you know what German Chancellor Merz did? Amidst serious negotiations to end the bloody and destructive Ukraine war, this guy's putting up a veritable roadblock right in front of progress. Here's what it is: Merz was in Washington along with several other European...
How The Ukraine War Could ‘End Tomorrow’ If The US Wanted: Jeffrey Sachs Addresses Ron Paul’s DC Conference
Just the day after the historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska to discuss finding peace in Ukraine, the famous economist and UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs made his first ever appearance before the Ron Paul Institute's (RPI) annual conference in Washington DC. Sachs' Saturday...
Will ‘Peace’ In Ukraine Also Bring a New Détente?
Some observers in the lead-up to last week’s meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage Alaska hoped that a dialogue might be established where the broader issue of creating a new European security model that would reduce tensions...
Has Putin Learned the Lessons of the Battle of Debaltseve and Minsk II?
I will answer my question right up front: Yes! The reaction of the West, especially that of Donald Trump, to Russia’s current offensive all along the line of contact, is reminiscent of the panic that seized the West in 2015 following Ukraine’s loss in...
Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy
When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine. His instincts–that continued involvement in that conflict was not in...
Russophrenia: the West’s Favorite Delusion about Russia
There’s a peculiar affliction that’s gripped the Western commentariat for decades now. I first diagnosed it in June 2015 and gave it a name: Russophrenia. The tell-tale sign? That deep-set conviction that Russia’s about to keel over economically—then somehow...
The Secondary Sanctions Squeeze
US President Donald Trump is now largely following his predecessors hostile policy towards Russia. If the war in Ukraine continues on its current path Russia will end it with an outright victory. The US and its European vassals are trying to impose a ceasefire to...
Cold War 2.0 Heats Up
Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War. The United States...
When the Bully Bluff Blows
The United States wielded near-total hegemony from at least the early 1990s to 2014 or so, at which point the first big irreversible cracks began to form. Russia took back Crimea, and took the Donbass under its wing. China began to methodically divest itself of US...
NATO Expansion — The Root Cause of the War in Ukraine
I know there is a lot of interest in the Jeffrey Epstein story and the new revelations from Tulsi Gabbard about Barack Obama and his team’s efforts to fan the flames of Russiagate. I have been all over the Russiagate matter since 2017. Here is the link...
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