By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | December 17, 2021 The new German coalition government headed up by Chancellor Olaf Scholz is only one week in power but already the signals are pointing to Berlin being more amenable to U.S.-led NATO hostility towards Russia. The “traffic light” coalition (based on party colours) comprises the […]
By Paul Robinson | RT | Decvember 15, 2021 If you can read only one article about international relations theory, it should be Columbia Professor Robert Jervis’ “Hypotheses on Misperception.” Jervis died last week, but his work explains recent Russia and NATO tensions. In the past month, an alleged “build-up” of Russian military forces close […]
Russian Foreign Ministry | December 12, 2021 We note US President Joseph Biden’s readiness expressed at the December 7, 2021 talks with President Vladimir Putin to establish a serious dialogue on issues related to ensuring the security of the Russian Federation. Such a dialogue is urgently needed today when the relations between Russia and the […]
RT | December 13, 2021 The US Navy submarine that stoked international tensions after colliding with an underwater mountain in the South China Sea pulled into the California coast on Sunday, bearing visible surface damage from the crash in October. The USS Connecticut nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine arrived at San Diego Bay with significant damage to […]
By Layla Guest | RT | December 11, 2021 The Pentagon has disclosed details of the shipment of anti-tank missile systems and projectiles supplied to Kiev, as Moscow grows increasingly concerned about the prospect of a full-blown conflict in Ukraine’s Donbass region. In a statement received by Russian news outlet TASS on Thursday, Pentagon spokesman […]
Anti-Empire | December 10, 2021 The moderately elevated Russian concentration of forces opposite of Ukraine remains in place, but further escalation seems to have been averted so far. There could be two reasons for this. One is that President Joe Biden, the head of the American Empire, has told Putin that he will look into addressing […]
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | December 8, 2021 No matter how you feel about the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex, you can’t help but be impressed at how they are able to successfully plunder and loot American taxpayers, no matter how much needless death, suffering, and destruction they wreak on people around the […]
By Marko Marjanović | Anti-Empire | December 7, 2021 With the US raising alarm about a supposed Russian military buildup opposite of Ukraine, and the Russians denying anything out of the ordinary is taking place it is tempting to conclude that this is just more of the typical NATO scaremongering about Russia. Trouble is that […]
By Patrick J. Buchanan | December 7, 2021 Neocons and Republican hawks such as the late John McCain sought to bring Ukraine and two other ex-Soviet republics, Georgia and Moldova, into NATO. Putin, who served in the KGB in the late Soviet era and calls the breakup of the USSR the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of […]
RT | December 7, 2021 In a “frank and businesslike” conversation Russian President Vladimir Putin asked his US counterpart Joe Biden for guarantees that NATO won’t expand further east or deploy offensive weapons to countries like Ukraine. Moscow is “seriously interested” in obtaining “reliable and firm legal guarantees” excluding NATO’s further expansion eastward and deployment […]
