Cluster Bomb Strategy Will Be Cluster-f*** for Ukraine and NATO

Cluster Bomb Strategy Will Be Cluster-f*** for Ukraine and NATO

Dumping tonnes of this particularly cruel explosive on the Ukrainian army seems like a good sticking plaster for what is in reality a gaping wound. The news that NATO, or rather that the U.S., has decided to offload its aging stock of cluster bombs shouldn’t really come as a surprise to those following the Ukraine…

Poland Complicated Its Regional Leadership Plans by Trying to Fleece Germany

Poland Complicated Its Regional Leadership Plans by Trying to Fleece Germany

Germany can now claim to be a more reliable long-term military partner for Ukraine while Lithuania will partially replace the role that Poland could have played in repairing Ukrainian tanks, both outcomes of which complicate Warsaw’s regional leadership plans but it has nobody to blame for this but itself. A German Defense Ministry spokesperson announced…

Child Sex Trafficking from Ukraine: Fact, Fiction and Extrapolation

Child Sex Trafficking from Ukraine: Fact, Fiction and Extrapolation

Westwards child sex trafficking is a much more serious issue than are the trumped-up charges NATO laid against Russian President Putin. In examining the issue of child sex trafficking from Ukraine, this article is divided into seven parts. We first place the allegations NATO raised against Russian authorities into our overall analytical framework and then…

Nobody Should be Surprised by Turkiye Violating the Azovstal Deal

Nobody Should be Surprised by Turkiye Violating the Azovstal Deal

The optics don’t favor Russia since it looks like it was hoodwinked yet again without doing anything to deter future violations of other deals by Turkiye or other supposedly trusted partners. If the political will is present, which is impossible to know due to the traditional opacity of Russia’s decision-making processes, then the most that…

Nato Isn’t Defending Ukraine. It’s Stabbing it in the Back

Nato Isn’t Defending Ukraine. It’s Stabbing it in the Back

The Nato summit in Lithuania this week served only to underscore the utter hypocrisy of western leaders in pursuing their proxy war in Ukraine to “weaken” Russia and oust its president, Vladimir Putin. Both the US and Germany had made clear before the summit that they would block Ukraine’s admission to Nato while it was…