Instead of Russia’s economy nearing collapse, it’s now the US-led West’s that must face this startling scenario, and all because of the events that America itself decided to set into motion. True to form as the judo master that he is, President Putin just flipped the financial tables on the West with his latest geo-economic…
Simple-minded media propaganda – like the claim Russia’s Putin is deranged – is precisely what brought us to the crisis over Ukraine How convenient for western leaders that every time another country defies the West’s projection of power, the western media can agree on one thing: that the foreign government in question is led by…
The decision of the Russian leadership to recognise the DPR and LPR was a forced and predictable measure. Although almost eight years have passed since the referendums were held in the former Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, Moscow’s recognition has caused public support not only in the already legitimate republics, but also in Russia,…
So a congregation of NATO’s top brass ensconced in their echo chambers target the Russian Central Bank with sanctions and expect what? Cookies? What they got instead was Russia’s deterrence forces bumped up to “a special regime of duty” – which means the Northern and Pacific fleets, the Long-Range Aviation Command, strategic bombers and the…
When it comes to distant and adversarial countries, we are taught to recognize tyranny through the use of telltale tactics of repression. Dissent from orthodoxies is censored. Protests against the state are outlawed. Dissenters are harshly punished with no due process. Long prison terms are doled out for political transgressions rather than crimes of violence….
The current crisis in Russia’s relations with the West has nothing to do with gas, oil, energy resources or the economy in general. Attempts to explain politics by “Prize” in the spirit of Daniel Yergin are a vain and shallow. We are dealing with civilizational and geopolitical processes, where economic and energy issues are secondary…
