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When the Strategy of Words Fights the Strategy of Force, Who Wins the War
On the one hand, there are the words. In the analysis of Oleg Tsarev, the leading Ukrainian opposition leader now in Crimea, the end-of-war terms presented by the Russian side at Istanbul on Monday afternoon are “’not an ultimatum at all,’ [Russian delegation head Vladimir] Medinsky has stressed. Of course, Medinsky (lead image, left) is right. […]
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Badenoch Blurts out the Truth: Britain is at the Heart of Gaza “Proxy War”
Tory leader says the quiet part out loud, admitting that both Israel and Ukraine are fighting for the West If you have spent the past 20 months wondering why British leaders on both sides of the aisle have barely criticised Israel, even as it slaughtered and starved Gaza’s population of more than two million people, […]
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Have We Reached a Milestone in Ukraine?
Secretary of Marco Rubio said today (Friday) that “If it’s not possible to end the war in Ukraine , we need to move on.” Rubio told reporters that the Trump could decide this “in a matter of days…” (NYTimes, 4/18/2025) The context: Russia has made its conditions very clear. (1) Ukraine must not join NATO. […]
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Gruesome Disinformation
Sufficiently gruesome to learn of the casualties in the Ukraine/Russo war. More gruesome to learn that the statistics don’t reflect actuality and are only another weapon ─ humiliate the opponent and have the public believe the enemy ignores the deaths of its soldiers. The Kyiv Independent (?), Friday, March 14, 2025, “General Staff: Russia has […]
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Ukraine Timeline Tells the Tale
May 18, 2015: Remains of an Eastern Orthodox church after shelling by the Ukrainian Army near Donetsk International Airport. Eastern Ukraine. (Mstyslav Chernov. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) Special to Consortium News and published there on February 25, 2025 The way to prevent the Ukraine war from being understood is to suppress its history. A […]
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“No specific signals” from US on Resuming Dialogue – Moscow
FILE PHOTO: Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia. © Sputnik Russia is open to dialogue with the US, including on Ukraine, but has not yet received any “specific signals” from Washington’s new administration on resuming contacts, Moscow’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said on Sunday. In an interview with RIA Novosti, the diplomat stressed […]
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WaPo Putin-Trump Call Claim “Pure Fiction” – Kremlin
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not have a phone conversation about the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The Washington Post claimed on Sunday that Trump called Putin after winning a new term as […]
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Russia threatens EU country with racism lawsuit
Closeup of the Latvian flag hanging above the AB dam in Riga – stock photo © Getty Images Russia has threatened to file a lawsuit against Latvia in the UN International Court of Justice for allegedly racially discriminating against its Russian-speaking population, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced on Wednesday. Ethnic Russians make up nearly a […]
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Russia Confirms Liberation of Key Donbass Town
FILE PHOTO. © Sputnik/Alexey Maishev Russian forces have completely liberated the town of Ugledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Defense Ministry in Moscow has confirmed. Ukrainian forces had controlled the settlement since 2014, when the DPR declared independence following a US-backed coup in Kiev. Ugledar was a strategically important position, featuring high-rise buildings […]
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Free the Leftist, Anti-War, and Anti-Nationalist Political Prisoners in Ukraine
Above: Political prisoner in Ukraine, Inna Ivanochko sits in a dock in a court. Inna Ivanochko is the head of the Lviv organisation of Opposition Platform — For Life, which was Ukraine’ second largest party in parliament until it was persecuted and then banned. She is facing up to 15 years in prison for expressing […]
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