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What Might Lenin Have Thought About the US-Israeli War on Iran (and the War in Ukraine)
Facit indignatio versum (Indignation makes my verses) – Juvenal In his analyses of the causes of the first world war, Lenin stressed the importance of understanding the policies the belligerent states pursued before the war. Borrowing from the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, the Bolshevik leader argued that war is politics by other (namely, […]
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What if Russia and China Had Announced on Friday That They Would Intervene Together to Protect Iran against Unprovoked Aggression
At about noon, Moscow time, on Friday February 27, the Russian Security Council met in a video session. The regular weekly meeting of the Council is often at the end of the week. The Foreign and Defense Ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Andrei Belousov, and the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, participated. Unless Russian […]
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From the Barstool
Into every commentator’s life falls a one-time permission slip to make ad hominem remarks. This is confirmed by Hoyle, the Marquess of Queensbury and natural law. · Donald Trump is a psychotic Fascist who is consumed by the mad fantasy of becoming the global emperor. The former was evident 9 years ago; the latter was evident […]
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The Insecurity of the Munich Security Conference
Each day we learn that the leaders of the “free world” lag behind us. Relying on them to give us peace and stability has its doubts. The annual Munich Security Conference, a gathering of Western world’s movers and shakers, tells us why we have this insecure world. The Conference reached deep into the nitty gritty […]
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A New Perspective and Blueprint: A Demilitarised Arctic for the Common Good — and Why It Is Rational
This is not another geopolitical commentary on the Arctic. It is a visionary peace proposal that save the region from militarised rivalry and ecological ruin. A blueprint for shared security, sustainable development, and human dignity — benefitting Greenland, the Arctic, and the rest of us. I. Four Principles for a New Arctic Vision The Arctic […]
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The Munich “Security” Conference (MSC) Has Become a €20‑Million Militarist Echo Chamber
The MSC’s closed groupthink militarism offers only one prescription — more weapons — even as record military expenditures, squeezed from taxpayers in economic crisis, destroy diplomacy and drive escalation and the highest war risks in decades. From Dialogue Forum to Militarised Ritual For decades, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) – which opened today and runs […]
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Whitewashing U.S. Barbarism by Smearing Russia and China

The Western media are doing what they usually do: minimizing and covering up the criminal aggression of the United States. Trump’s blatantly illegal military attack on Venezuela, the kidnapping of its president, the murder of foreign nationals, and theft of the country’s vast oil resources are not being called out for the litany of grave […]
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Mock Strategy
The crazy-quilt National Security Strategy released a few weeks back is a patchwork of declarations of intent, admonitions thrown at other countries and ad hominem statements of dubious validity. It lacks coherence or consistency – much less a theme, a central idea, or a concept that gives pattern to its incongruent parts. Clearly, the document is […]
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Kremlin Responds to Zelensky’s “Unhinged” Christmas address

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has questioned the Ukrainian leader’s capacity to make any reasonable decisions regarding peace negotiations. FILE PHOTO. Kremlin. © Getty Images / Iuliia Leonteva Vladimir Zelensky’s “strange” Christmas address raises concerns over the Ukrainian leader’s ability to make any rational decisions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Zelensky published a video on his Telegram […]
