America Needs to Wise Up Ipsos is a multinational market research firm. The French firm, headquartered in Paris, recently conducted a poll in 16 countries that have elections this year. What the poll shows is the scope of the disinformation challenge: “Social media is the primary or secondary news source for 56% of those surveyed, […]
Sweden Preps Its Citizens for War
Eric Adamson and Jason Moyer of War on The Rocks report that Sweden is preparing its citizens for war. They write: “It’s time for action!” “There could be war in Sweden.” “Who are you if war comes?” These were the messages and no longer rhetorical questions that Sweden’s top political and military leadership shared at […]
Are NATO’s Norther Flank Defenses Lacking?
Liselotte Odgaard of Foreign Policy tells her readers that even with Finland and Sweden, the alliance lacks a capable defense presence in the north. She writes: Even as its members take part in Steadfast Defender 2024, NATO’s largest military exercise since the Cold War, it is clear that the alliance remains ill-prepared against Russia’s military […]
What Would Kennan Say about Ukraine/Russia?
At LewRockwell.com, Taki Theodoracopulos remembers George Kennan’s view of Russian relations and how different they might be to the approach taken by the current administration in Washington, D.C. He writes: I’ve never had much use for diplomats, nor did my father, who called them gigolos and freeloaders living high on the hog off taxpayers like […]
Blindsiding Putin’s Vast Security State
Russia Was Warned: The Russian Security State employs almost one million policemen, 340,000 national guards, and over 100,000 spies. That “apparatus has proved ruthlessly efficient in terrorizing babushkas bringing flowers to Alexei Navalny’s grave, tracking down lone bloggers and persecuting homosexuals,” coitizes Owen Matthews in The Spectator: But as the Crocus attack demonstrated, the Kremlin’s securocrats […]
Russian Black Sea Fleet Decimated
David Axe of Forbes reports that Russia’s Black Sea Fleet could cease to function in two years amid drone and missile strikes. Urkaine has been hitting Russia’s fleet with drone boats as well as Storm Shadow and SCALP-EG cruise missiles, decimating their ships in the Black Sea. He writes: The Ukrainian missile raid on the […]
Is Putin as Bad as Stalin?
In Foreign Policy, Adrian Karatnycky, a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council and founder of the Myrmidon Group, compares Vladimir Putin to Joseph Stalin. He writes: In 1968, the American scholar Jerome M. Gilison described Soviet elections as a “psychological curiosity”—a ritualized, performative affirmation of the regime rather than a real vote in any sense […]
Russia Making a Push in the South
The Visual Journalism Team at BBC reports that the fighting has been raging in Ukraine for two years since Russia’s invasion, with Moscow’s forces making an apparent breakthrough in February after months of virtual stalemate. They write: Here are the latest developments: Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the eastern town of Avdiivka in Russia’s biggest […]
Tucker: Ron Paul Predicted Ukraine Turmoil
Recently, Tucker Carlson sat down with former congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul. In an email to subscribers, Carlson described his interview like this: The United States government has consumed much of the past decade cultivating a disastrous foreign policy in Ukraine. Hindsight makes this obvious. Much to Ukraine’s disadvantage, permanent Washington has spent […]
Russia’s Brutal Tactics in Ukraine
At National Review, Jay Nordlinger decries Russia’s cruel tactics in the war in Ukraine. He writes: • Ukrainians are doing all they can to resist occupation or subjugation. They know what it means. They have had experience, for generations. Consider this: Russia invaded and occupied parts of Kyiv region for 38 days in 2022. As […]
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