New US “lethal aid” for Ukraine, courtesy of US taxpayers and their weapons industry beneficiaries. (U.S. Embassy in Ukraine) By Aaron Maté | January 26, 2022 The US-Russia standoff over Ukraine has sparked bellicose threats and fears of Europe’s biggest ground war in decades. There are ample reasons to question the prospects of a Russian invasion, and […]
RT | January 27, 2022 NATO is developing the capacity for devastating nuclear strikes against Russia – which includes involving members of the alliance who don’t have such weapons in training operations – Moscow’s top arms control official has claimed. In an interview with TASS on Thursday, Vladimir Yermakov, Director of the Department of Arms […]
RT | January 26, 2022 NATO has said it “will not compromise” on potential expansion into Ukraine, Georgia, and other former Soviet republics, as this clashes with the “core principles” of the alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Wednesday. The alliance’s response, which Stoltenberg said all 30 members agreed upon, was delivered to […]
RT | January 26, 2022 Bulgaria is a “loyal ally in NATO” and the alliance’s unity is the best response to the current crisis over Ukraine, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said on Wednesday, amid conflicting reports on Sofia’s participation in the US military buildup in Eastern Europe. Petkov’s government voted on Wednesday to follow the “Bulgarian strategy” of […]
No more lockstep: conservatives aren’t afraid of being called names as they question America’s interest in Ukraine BY JACK HUNTER | RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT | JANUARY 26, 2022 The fight on the right for what constitutes a conservative or Republican foreign policy continues. This time the battlefront is Russia and Ukraine. That there is a fissure […]
Sputnik – 25.01.2022 Croatia will withdraw its military from NATO forces deployed in the region in the event of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, President Zoran Milanovic said on Tuesday. “I follow reports, according to which NATO, not a separate state, not the United States, is strengthening its presence, sending reconnaissance vessels. We have […]
RT | January 24, 2022 Denmark must “immediately withdraw” some 90 troops it deployed to Mali last week “without [the government’s] consent and in violation of the protocols” allowing European nations to intervene in that African country, the government in Bamako said on Monday. Some 91 Danes from the Jaeger Corps special forces arrived in […]
US lethal aid being unloaded at a Kiev airport. © Twitter / U.S. Embassy Kyiv RT | January 24, 2022 The families of US diplomats have been ordered to leave Ukraine, while some embassy staffers were authorized to depart on a “voluntary” basis, according to an updated travel advisory that reiterated claims of a “continued […]
Getty Images President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst impacts. As a senior member of the Obama administration, Biden surely needed no schooling on Obama’s diplomatic agreements with Cuba and Iran, both of which began to […]
By H. Bruce FRANKLIN | CounterPunch | January 19, 2022 As the U.S. moves nuclear forces closer and closer to the border of Russia, and as our corporate media bang their war drums louder and louder, does anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis? In June of 1961, just three months after the Bay of Pigs […]
