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The utter failure of the Anchorage, Alaska, meeting between top U.S. and Chinese diplomats held in March 2021 set the tone for relations going forward. Diplomacy flew out the window at the get-go and did not return. The hostility coming from the Chinese was impossible to miss. It was made immediately and abundantly clear that then-Chinese …
From the “Not Breaking News” Desk: What the Legacy Media and News are Not Covering: Malfeasance and Meddling Obama-Biden Style …
The world was shocked last September to learn that explosions 260 feet below the surface of the Baltic Sea had destroyed both of Nord Stream 1’s underwater pipelines that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe and one of Nord Stream 2’s lines (which were not yet operational). Although U.S., NATO, and European officials immediately …
REARRANGING THE WORLD ON RUSSIAN AND CHINESE TERMS On 4 February with great fanfare, communist China and Russia announced a new strategic partnership, as explained in their Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development, an English version of which was posted on the Kremlin’s official website here. …
The Russian leader has solid levels of support among lawmakers (Which he controls)
If the United States finds tactical weapons being removed from Russian-controlled areas
Russia’s military failure in Ukraine has defied almost everyone’s predictions
Borisov said: “Yes. The first prototypes are already being used there.” He said the weapon was called “Zadira”.
Will the US and its NATO allies go to nuclear war with Russia
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that Russian troops attacked almost the entire front line in the Donbas and Kharkiv, breaking through into two small settlements.
The fighting in Ukraine has gone badly for the Russians. They hadn’t anticipated the resistance they would face from the Ukrainians, nor were they properly prepared for a long slog. But up until Thursday, the Kremlin had put on a brave face. At a March 25 news briefing, Sergei Rudskoi, the first deputy chief of …
Rudskoi essentially told reporters that, from the beginning, all the Russians really wanted were Donetsk and Luhansk. They sure could have fooled us.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun making the case that the tide of the war is turning. It’s difficult to know if a shift has actually occurred or if he’s misrepresenting the situation so the West will keep the supply of weapons and supplies coming. In the last 24 to 48 hours, reports from both …
Wednesday marks the 28th day of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ill-advised invasion of Ukraine. His high hopes for a quick victory have faded as the war appears to have reached a stalemate. The Russian Ministry of Defense does not reveal casualty numbers. However, for a six-hour period on Monday, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda, reported …
Rumors began swirling through the western media on Friday after Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station wearing yellow and blue uniforms. The reports said they had chosen the colors to show their solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s level of intolerance, this was considered to be an extremely …
Might there be a silver lining to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Documents allegedly written by an FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, successor agency to the KGB) analyst claim that Russia’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine has ended Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plans to make a run at Taiwan this fall, according to Fox News. …
China on Tuesday said its stance on the Ukraine conflict is “completely objective, impartial and constructive,” and repeated accusations the U.S. is spreading misinformation over reports Beijing has responded positively to a Russian request for military supplies.
Addressing House Democrats at their Philadelphia retreat on Friday, Biden unleashed his anger on Americans who attribute our record high inflation rate to his administration’s excessive spending. “I’m sick of this stuff,” he railed, with his hands pointing toward his neck to show he’s had it up to “here” with being blamed for the sharp …
Thoughts on Ukraine Part 11: New Equilibrium Figure New Equilibrium Issues The figure above starts as a section of the New Equilibrium portion of the Conceptual Framework developed in Part 1. I have added elements based on developments over the last week. As the central question mark shows, there is still a great deal of …
Thoughts on Ukraine, Part 9: Impact on World’s Food Figure Sunflower Oil and Wheat are Two Key Ukrainian Food Exports One voice missing from the security discussions on Ukraine is food security. The agricultural community certainly understands it, and there is a lot of discussion. But history tells us that hunger is a powerful source …