Could the war in Ukraine be solved by politicians and generals employing the tactics John F. Kennedy used to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis? Jacob G. Hornberger suggests that it could, writing at LewRockwell.com: Understanding how Kennedy resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis goes a long way toward understanding what motivated the Russians to invade Ukraine. […]
What If Russia Does Fall Apart?
If the war on Ukraine ends with Russian defeat and chaos in the country, what can be done? The United States couldn’t even manage Iraq successfully after invading in 2004. How would the West handle the disintegration of a nuclear power like Russia? Alexander J. Motyl explains in Foreign Policy: Ever since Russia’s attempt to […]
FALSE FLAGS: How Russia and Other Countries Are Beating Sanctions
Russia and other sanctioned nations are using lax flag rules in countries like Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands to evade scrutiny. Elisabeth Braw reports in Foreign Policy: The world’s top three ship-owning countries are China, Greece, and Japan. But the top three countries under which ships sail include none of these—nor fourth-ranked United States or fifth-ranked […]
Despite Western Aid the Russians Are Slowly Taking Ukraine’s Territory
Since Ukraine reclaimed giant swaths of territory around Kherson in the southwest and Izium/Kupiansk in the northeast, the lines of battle have become mostly static once again. But along the lines, the Russians have slowly been taking territory. A little city here, another there, grinding away at Ukrainian defenses by launching waves of frontal assaults […]
Ukraine Front Lines Increasingly Bloody
The Armed forces of Ukraine claim to have killed 800 Russian personnel on January 29, and another 490 on the 30th. The recent totals have been very high as the fighting intensifies. The Armed Forces of Ukraine doesn’t publish casualty numbers for its own personnel, but it’s probably safe to assume that higher Russian losses […]
Is Putin’s Meat Grinder Working?
Vladimir Putin and his military commanders have chosen to throw relatively untrained recruits from Russia’s prisons and hinterlands toward the front line of the war in Ukraine in what has become a human meat grinder. Is their plan working? James S. Robbins analyzes the results in The American Spectator, writing: According to reports from the front […]
Ukraine Filled with Russian Sympathizers and Collaborators
In its fight against Russia, the government of Ukraine must also battle a significant number of citizens collaborating with the enemy. Stefanie Glinski explains in Foreign Policy: The sound of incoming and outgoing fire was almost constant as the older woman paused for a moment near Kherson’s main hospital, a shopping cart with several water […]
India Sucking Up All the Russian Oil
A new study by Poten & Partners has found that India has become the destination for the most seaborne Russian crude oil since the latter country attacked Ukraine in February of last year. Jasmina Ovcina Mandra reports in Offshore Energy: India has become the largest seaborne importer of Russian crude in the wake of the […]
Are You Prepared for Nuclear War?
In the Unz Review, Philip Giraldi explains the effort by those in government and media to reassure the public that nuclear war is somehow a manageable event. The idea that the government and its allies in the media may be psychologically preparing the nation to accept the inevitability of nuclear war is frightening. He writes: […]
The Unsavory Reasons for Washington’s Proxy War Against Russia
At the Ron Paul Institute, Ted Galen Carpenter explains what may be the unsavory reasons for Washington’s proxy war against Russia. He writes: US and NATO officials routinely contend that assisting Ukraine in its war against Russia is a moral as well as a strategic imperative. Ukraine is supposedly on the frontlines of a global […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- …
- 35
- Next Page »