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2025 – Ukraine On The Verge Of Defeat
In 2023 the situation in Ukraine had developed into what looked like a stalemate. But 2024 proved that bigger things had been in the making. In 2024, after taking Avdivka, the Russian forces began to deliberately and steadily move forward. The introduction of FAB...
Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his Results of the Year annual marathon yearender interactive televised discussion with the Russian public and the media in Moscow on December 19, spoke at some length on the recent developments in Syria. These...
Would a Trump-Putin Agreement Bring Peace to Ukraine or Just Set the Stage for More War?
“I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.” – Winston Churchill, 1942 Many Americans, even a lot who never much cared for Donald Trump, voted for him in part because they believed – or at least hoped –...
How Washington Provoked the New Cold War, with Guest Scott Horton
After US ATACMS Strike On Strategic Target Russia Announces To Retaliate
Just five days ago I postulated that the U.S. Has Stopped Ukrainian ATACMS Strikes On Russia. Today that claim turned out to have been premature: Status-6 @Archer83Able - 13:24 UTC · Dec 11, 2024 The remains of a US-made MGM-140 ATACMS ballistic missile...
Will Putin Heed Trump’s Ukraine Ceasefire Demand?
Peace Plans, Schmese Plans: Key Path to Ukraine Peace Long Ignored by All
Politico ran the headline, "Ukraine Peace Plans Galore." Ukraine, Russia, and China each have a peace plan. Trump is developing one. The Alliance of Democracies has one. It looks a lot like Ukraine's plan at first glance. There's talk of a Demilitarized Zone between...
Sharia Law In Syria?
Winners and losers in Syria
Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power. The likelihood...
US Has Stopped Ukrainian ATACMS Strikes On Russia
As further ATACMS strikes on Russia seem to have stopped this timeline is of interest. November 18: U.S. allows Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles against targets within Russia: The reversal of policy, nearly 1,000 days since Russia started its full-scale...
Erdogan’s Idlib Shock Shadows ‘Kursk’
“Doomsters” is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise commentators that only see the “dark side to events” (a vice quite prevalent during the Soviet era). Marat Khairullin, a highly respected Russian military analyst, says, “Today, a network of mercenary...
The Long War to Reaffirm Western and Israeli Primacy Undergoes a Shape-shift
The long war to reaffirm western and Israeli primacy is undergoing a shape-shift. On one front, the calculus in respect to Russia and the Ukraine war has shifted. And in the Middle East, the locus and shape of the war is shifting in a distinct way. Georges Kennan’s...
Atlanticists Mobilise to Salvage NATO as Russia Toughens its Stance
The American film maker and philanthropist who created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, George Lucas, once said, “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.” Within a week of Russia “testing” the...
Provoking Nuclear War Over Something Americans Do Not See as a Major Threat
New polling conducted this month by the Pew Research Center indicates that only 30 percent of Americans believe that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia is a “major threat to U.S. interests.” That perception was at its highest of 50 percent of Americans shortly after...
The Counterinsurgency is ‘On’ – Against Trump’s ‘Storm’
“The Deep State whispered to Trump: “You cannot withstand the storm.” Trump whispered back: “I am the storm.” The war is on. The Deep State has launched a war of disruption to disable Trump’s “storm.” Last week’s ATACM strike was but one part to an inter-agency...
Will Armageddon Be Joe Biden’s Final Legacy Regarding Russia?
When the Soviet Union dissolved in late 1991, the world seemed poised for a new, more peaceful era no longer haunted by the fear of a nuclear Armageddon. The principal successor state from the wreckage of the USSR was a noncommunist Russia that was intent on becoming...
Will Trump Go After the War Party
In 54 BC, Marcus Licinius Crassus, a rich, ambitious Roman businessman, got himself named governor of the wealthy province of Syria. Crassus had been sharing power in Rome with Pompey and Julius Caesar. Call him the Donald Trump of his day. Crassus decided to invade...
Why These New Russian Missiles Are Real Game Changers
In response to a U.S. decision to arrange for ballistic missile attacks from Ukraine into Russia, the great magician and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin pulled a rabbit from his hat. Yesterday the six independent war heads of a new intermediate...
A Week from Hell
Unfortunately, a machine has not yet been developed that can take one back in time and undo terrible mistakes being made due to lack of appreciation of possible downstream consequences of certain actions. If Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary had been...
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