By Ilya Tsukanov – Sputnik – 10.08.2020
Alexander Lukashenko has commented on the large-scale street protests in the Belarusian capital, saying he would not allow for a Ukraine-style ‘Maidan revolution’ to take place in his country.
Democratic values, once a bright idea, have become a stone on the neck of Europe, which is dragging it into the abyss of chaos. Now there is a chance to fix it.
John Goss One day at the beginning of April this year I had an awakening. It dawned on me that Russia had been leaned upon to change its policy regarding COVID-19. By that time the virus had spread through the UK like wildfire and was reaching its peak whereas in Russia there had been few …
Via The Epoch Times ()…
Belarusian authorities said Wednesday they have detained dozens of Russian private military contractors days before Belarus’ presidential vote, a sign of escalating tensions between the two neighbors.
By Anatoly Karlin • Unz Review • April 1, 2020
A few days ago, I joked on Twitter:
The choice isn’t between boomer genocide and an economic collapse.
The choice is between boomer genocide and economic collapse, or producing millions of 5 cent masks and making people wear them.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how the governments of the UK, Sweden and Belarus are dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
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As 21WIRE reported earlier today, not every European country is taking the mass-panic, economic self-immolation and authoritarian police approach to dealing with the supposed pandemic of the coronavirus.
Via RT…
US National Security Advisor John Bolton has visited a host of ex-Soviet republics, including Moscow’s longtime ally, Belarus. Some saw it as a sign of growing US influence on Russia’s border. Is it?
Lukashenko Declares a “Gas War” on Russia After Putin’s Free Loan by Ruslan Ostashko Translated and captioned by Leo. A new turn in difficult Russian-Belarusian relations occurred at the end
One of the dangers of inward military and ‘defense’ subcultures is that it can easily become polluted with political thinking, whereby its members become marinated in their own state and institutional propaganda. In the case of NATO member states, this means that for last decade at least, it’s become an institutional imperative to view everything as a potential threat from the ‘enemy’. Presently, the enemy de jour is Russia. We all remember the Cold War years when the ultimate ‘threat’ was always a nuclear first strike.
