Hubris consists in believing that a contrived narrative can, in and of itself, bring victory, Alastair Crooke writes. Hubris consists in believing that a contrived narrative can, in and of itself, bring victory. It is a fantasy that has swept through the West – most emphatically since the 17th century. Recently, the Daily Telegraph published…
There are three interpretations of why Lukashenko just publicly shared his concerns with Putin about the possibility of Wagner invading Poland. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told his Russian counterpart during talks on Sunday that his country’s local authorities are becoming “concerned” about the Wagner fighters that they’re hosting. According to him, these guests are in…
Zelensky is not the leader who is going to negotiate peace with Russia, not now, not any time, Martin Jay writes. Foreign Affairs magazine had a brief moment of attention beyond its normal limited elitist audience when it asked the question: “Should Ukraine Negotiate With Russia?” It presented the reader with a tome of reading…
On Monday, June 17, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced, “The Black Sea agreements are no longer in effect.” This was a blunt statement to suspend the Black Sea grain initiative that emerged out of intense negotiations in the hours after Russian forces entered Ukraine in February 2022. The initiative went into…
Their authors are confusing Russian troops with Ukrainian Nazis, who have been repeatedly filmed dragging young Ukrainian men off the streets to dragoon them into MI6 agent Zelensky’s meat grinders. The CIA’s Associated Press network’s recent exclusive on very bad deeds being done to very good Ukrainian prisoners in “Putin’s Russian gulags” forms the spine…
If PiS still orders the armed forces to conventionally intervene in Ukraine after President Putin just tried to deter them from doing so, then there’s a chance that the Belarusian and Wagner forces that are drilling just around 20 miles away from that war-torn country’s border could storm across it to stop their Polish opponents….
