“The Russians have decided there is no way to negotiate an end to this. No one will negotiate in good faith; therefore we must crush the enemy. And that’s what’s coming.” Colonel Douglas MacGregor (9:35 minute) “Strictly speaking, we haven’t started anything yet.” Vladimir Putin The war in Ukraine is not going to end in…
Mike Whitney: You think that Putin should have acted more forcefully from the beginning in order to end the war quickly. Is that an accurate assessment of your view on the war? And—if it is—then what do you think is the downside of allowing the conflict to drag on with no end in sight? Paul Craig…
Quite clearly, humanitarian motivations played a major role in President Putin’s decision to commence his country’s special operation. He was partially driven by the desire to defend his co-ethnics’ human rights in Ukraine after its regime’s Western patrons supported Kiev’s violent violation thereof as part of that de facto New Cold War bloc’s divide-and-rule Hybrid…
This multipolar megaproject was given a second wind following years of lackluster progress after emerging as Russia’s only remaining outlet to the international economy as a result of this year’s dramatic developments, which in turn accelerated that Eurasian Great Power’s grand strategic convergence with Iran and India. Conversations about Eurasian connectivity had hitherto been dominated…
We live in exciting times. The unknown that lays ahead for all of us is both exhilarating and scary. Exhilarating in the long term, but rather scary in the short term. All empires eventually die and we’re in the terminal phase of the New World Order that will not recover from the Russian roulette game…
The primary purpose of the Nuclear Posture Review(NPR) is to deceptively “rebrand” the offensive use of nuclear weapons as a justifiable act of defense. The new criteria for using these lethal WMD has been deliberately maligned with the clear intention of providing Washington with a green light for their use and proliferation. Accordingly, US foreign…
