Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. The terror we and our allies carry out against Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, Libyan, Somali and Yemeni civilians is part of the regrettable…
Russia’s potential employment of energy export restrictions to the EU is a legitimate form of strategic self-defense because the Eurasian Great Power retains the sovereign right to respond to that bloc’s US-encouraged unilateral and illegal sanctions against it. Doing so wouldn’t amount to the so-called ‘weaponization’ of energy but the justified defense of Russia’s strategic…
The travesty of it all is that while those estimated 500,000 Ukrainians who Sputnik predicts could flee to Israel as refugees might be driven by what they personally regard as their fear of so-called ‘Russian occupation’ (as they imagine it in their minds despite Moscow’s vehement denials that it has any such plans), these new…
Even though Ankara voted against Moscow at the UNGA, it still retains excellent relations with it in practice. This is evidenced by the country keeping its airspace open to Russia, refusing to sanction it despite heavy American pressure to do so, and President Erdogan’s offer to conduct bilateral trade in rubles, yuan, and/or gold. It…
If humanity is morally fit to survive the current storm, it will be due to the rectification of the fallacious rules underlying today’s geopolitics. We hold in our hands vast power to both create and destroy the likes of which has never been seen in history. Up until the turn of the 20th century, the…
More recently, the topic of Turkey and its use of fighters with Syrian war experience in a number of armed conflict zones has been discussed at length in the pages of NEO. However, the topic of foreign fighters in the current events in Ukraine, as well as the involvement of a number of NATO countries…
