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 […]
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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 […]
Al-Manar | January 26, 2022 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow did not want talks over Ukraine and its own security concerns to be made longer by including the European Union [EU] or the Organization of Security and Cooperation [OSCE] in Europe in them. He made the comments to the State […]
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 […]
Andrew Korybko US President Joe Biden scandalously quipped during Wednesday’s press conference that NATO might be divided over how to respond in the event that Russia stages a so-called “minor incursion” into Ukraine. This reveals that his team’s strategy towards Russia isn’t fully formed in the context of the undeclared US-provoked missile crisis in Europe that talks …
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 […]
21WIRE | Only when the political class and their mainstream media stenographers come to terms with the real context of this crisis will we stand a chance to end it.
Threats and counter-threats flying between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have caused a flurry of fear and confusion that escalates […]
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