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Much Ado About Russia
Right-wing and left-wing interventionists and interventionist mainstream-press commentators are up in arms over President Trump’s decision to ease economic sanctions against Russia in connection with the Russian government’s agreement to supply diesel fuel to the...
Will Trump’s Russia Diesel Deal Save The Midterms?
The Faulty Premises Underlying Europeans’ ‘War on Russia’ Hyperventilation
Past days have seen the European political classes turning up the volume to maximum on clearly concerted – and shared – speaking-notes: “War with Russia is coming; Russia intends to strike NATO; we must prepare; stock up on bottled water, tinned food, and be ready to...
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Push: Why There’s No Need to Negotiate Crimea and Donbas
President Trump's emissaries shuttled from Moscow to Kyiv seeking a way to end the Ukraine war. Afterward, Trump negotiator Jared Kushner explained, "…the hardest issue is still territory." That dispute centers on Crimea and Donbas. These areas have been points of...
The Crippling Effects of Unnecessary War
In California, gas stations are facing a unique challenge. The station signs are only configured to go up to $9.99 per gallon and at several stations the price of diesel has reached that maximum. Diesel prices are higher than they have ever been in history. Worse,...
Trump To Ukraine: Hit Russia Deep
Paradoxically Fear is the Foundation of Stability: Deterrence Works
Professor Sergei Karaganov has written a paper – How to Win a World War – that advocates a limited nuclear strike on an adversary by Russia, as the means of preventing a World War. On the face of it, this may seem to be an oxymoron – a nuclear strike precisely done to...
Payback: Russia Uses Iran as a Proxy Against the United States
Washington and Moscow both enthusiastically celebrated the victory of the Allied “Grand Alliance” over the fascist powers at the end of World War II. Since then, however, the two capitals have typically been on opposite sides of numerous nasty geostrategic...
Impunity? Europe as the ‘Strategic Rear’ for Ukraine
This line of argument that we shouldn’t be afraid of Russia... Maybe someone also calls us a ‘paper tiger’, like Trump called NATO, but I would caution against such parallels. We have a quality in our character like patience. ‘God was patient and commanded us to be...
Russia Serves a Cold Dish to the GCC and India
The proverb “revenge is a dish best served cold” traces to French (“La vengeance se mange froide”), appearing in English literature by the 19th century. Most Americans do not know the French orign of the proverb… It entered popular culture thanks to Star Trek....
Trump Kabuki Theatre in Ukraine: Nothing of Substance Gets Resolved
It is not a glitch (that nothing gets resolved). It’s a feature. For it opens rather, a path for “Business” to be done – for “stakeholder” deals to be cut, and for billions to be shared out in payoffs. This is Trump’s geo-political transactional model: Business...
Russia Is No Superpower? Then What The Hell Does That Make Europe?
Kaja Kallas stood at the 62nd Munich Security Conference, at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof where the Atlantic Empire had assembled not to project power but to perform its own autopsy while the patient was still breathing — and delivered what she imagined was a...
Anchorage was the Receipt: Europe is Paying the Price… and Knows it.
Sergey Lavrov didn’t hedge. He didn’t soften. He lit the match and let it burn. “In Anchorage, we accepted the United States’ proposal.” And now, he says, Washington is no longer prepared to implement what it itself put on the table — not on Ukraine, not on expanded...
Winter Strikes Kiev
Last night Ukraine was finally confronted with the consequences of attacking Russian infrastructure. And no, I do not mean last nights Oreshnik strike on the large gas storage facility in west Ukraine. The seismic impulse from that strike likely damaged the...
From Industrial Power to Military Keynesianism: Germany’s Engineered Collapse
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz now admits that “parts of Germany’s economy are in very critical condition” and that his government “hasn’t done enough.” That phrasing is an evasion. Germany did not drift into this collapse. The numbers were visible in real time. The...
Raising The Stakes: US Seizes RUSSIA-Flagged Tanker!
NY Times Expose: CIA Fights Russia – Trump’s Peace Deal Runs on Illusion
Today the NY Times published a long piece on the relations between the Trump administration and the government of Ukraine. The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (archived) – NY Times, Dec 30 2025 There is a lot of gossip...
The Ruble Is Far From Rubble
On March 26, 2022, then United States President Joe Biden boasted in a speech in Poland that “unprecedented sanctions” targeting Russia that had been put in place over the last roughly 30 days had caused the ruble, Russia’s currency, to almost immediately be “reduced...
Europe’s Panic Economy: Frozen Assets, Empty Arsenals, and the Quiet Admission of Defeat
When a prime minister tells her own staff to rest because next year will be much worse, it is not gallows humor. It is not exhaustion speaking. It is a slip of the mask, the kind of remark leaders make only when the internal forecasts no longer align with the...
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