In hindsight, Russia, Kiev, and the latter’s Golden Billion patrons all had differing motives in agreeing to the deal. The first regarded it as an act of good faith as well as a means of tangibly counteracting fake news alleging that the Kremlin was weaponizing famine across the Global South. The second, meanwhile, wanted to…
Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Mainstream punditry in the latter half of 2022 is rife with op-eds arguing that the US needs to vastly increase military spending because a world war is about to erupt, and they always frame it as though this would be something that happens to the US, as though…
The most obvious explanation to the mysterious air dash of the UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace to Washington on Tuesday could be that he was canvassing for the support of the Biden Administration for his pitch to succeed Liz Truss as Britain’s next prime minister. But another plausible explanation can be that the secret, hurried…
Those who claim to #StandWithUkraine aren’t “defending the free world from authoritarian terror”, “safeguarding the rules-based order”, or “protecting everyone’s human rights”, but “normalizing” anti-minority hate speech that’ll inevitably widen to include Black & Brown folks, homosexuals, Jews, Muslims, and other minorities residing within the US-led West’s Golden Billion. Those who claim to #StandWithUkraine insist…
Disdaining Diplomacy, Seeking Victory Ever since the Ukraine War started on February 24, 2022 the NATO response, mainly articulated and materially implemented by the U.S., has been to pour vast quantities of oil on the flames of conflict, taunting Russia and its leader, increasing the scale of violence, the magnitude of human suffering, and dangerously…
No side that’s confident in its prospects of military and soft power success would ever deign to attack civilians, especially refugees, not to mention those that it claims are its own people on its own land. The Kherson Region that recently reunified with its historical Russian Motherland reported that Kiev used US-supplied HIMARS missiles to…
