Russia is not backing down, but it can’t be said for the U.S. and its allies who are increasingly looking at a weakened geopolitical position. After one year of war in Ukraine, Russia has not collapsed in the dramatic way that the United States and its European NATO...
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Why Putin Went to War — One Year Later
On Feb. 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin explained his country’s intentions in Ukraine in a televised speech. How has what he said then measured up to today? Joe Lauria reports. It is instructive to compare Russia’s war aims expressed on Feb. 24, 2022 to the state of the...
NATO Powers Intensify Offensive Against Russia After Munich Security Conference
By Johannes STERN One year after the reactionary invasion of Ukraine by the Putin regime, the imperialist powers are organizing a massive escalation of the war, which increasingly raises the threat of a nuclear world war. On Monday, US President Joe Biden paid a...
Why Arms Control Won’t Be Bilateral Business Anymore
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow was suspending participation in the U.S.-Russian New START Treaty, stressing that the country was not withdrawing from the treaty. “Before we come back to discussing this issue, we must have a clear...
Historic Year… Ukraine War Exposes U.S. Imperialism as Foremost Global Threat
Most people realize that the United States and its capitalist impoverishing-war-system must be defeated if the world is to ever live in peace. The war in Ukraine is now entering its second year, having reached its first anniversary this week. On February 24 last year,...
McCarthyism, Polish Style
By Michal KRUPA In Poland these days it is becoming dangerous to one’s career to publicly voice opposition to the government’s policy vis-à-vis the war in Ukraine. Leszek Sykulski, a well-known and popular expert in geopolitics, is a case in point. A few days ago,...
Marketing Ukraine’s Reconstruction to Fuel the War
The fantastical narratives of recovery and reconstruction were concocted years earlier as part of several ‘reform plans’ for Ukraine. Immediately after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, key players in the coalition supporting Ukraine, as well as...
Biden’s Kiev Visit Threatens Direct U.S. War With Russia
By Andre DAMON On Monday, US President Joe Biden arrived in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, pledging the United States’ commitment to the war with Russia for “as long as it takes.” The visit by the “commander in chief” to the front solidifies the conflict not only as an...
The World Teetering on the New Polycentric Geopolitics
The world is yet to see how dangerous the decade before us will be, what the new global geopolitical architecture will look like and who is to build it. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned in his address to his colleagues on 10 February 2023 in Moscow:...
Washington Accuses Russia of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ to Justify Escalation of Ukraine war
By Andre DAMON On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris formally accused Russia, for the first time, of carrying out “crimes against humanity,” part of an escalating propaganda campaign to condition public opinion for the direct deployment of US-NATO troops into the...
China Signs ‘Historic Deal’ With UAE for L-15 Trainer Aircraft as Beijing ‘Raids’ Traditional U.S. Bastion
China’s aviation industry announced on February 21 that the UAE had signed an agreement to export domestically developed L-15 advanced trainer jets. By Sakshi TIWARI The announcement comes a year after the UAE Defense Ministry first stated that it wanted to sign a...
How Canada Plays Into the Hands of Radical Islamists
The Canadian government is capable of determining whether the U.S. foreign policy and never-ending wars abroad are in the best interest of Canada. This is part two of a two-part study on the Canadian role in the U.S.-NATO attack on Syria for regime change. You can...