West’s Escalation Attempts May Lead to Its Strategic Defeat – Russian Intelligence Chief Naryshkin
by Sputnik [12-10-2024 published]. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The West’s attempts at escalation will not lead to Russia’s exhaustion, as they expect, but will result in the near strategic defeat of the West itself, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin said on Tuesday. “I state with complete certainty that further escalation will not…
Liberal world order is over – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
by RT [12-11-2024 published]. Hungary is ready to act as a link between East and West in a new reality, the prime minister has said. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed that his country’s refusal to conform to liberal ideology will yield considerable benefits in the future. The conservative nationalist politician has been in…
West fostering global conflict – Russia’s spy chief Naryshkin
by RT [12-10-2024 published]. (I wonder how much longer it will take to the West, especially the US & NATO to acknowledge these significant changes in the world power structure? The West is fighting a war in Ukraine that they simply can’t win. In fact, it was the constant provocations from NATO ever since the…
Sergey Lavrov’s Interview to Tucker Carlson, Moscow
by Tucker Carlson [12-5-2024 published]. (This is an excellent interview of Sergey Lavrov by Tucker Carlson. Lavrov’s English is excellent and easy to understand. Lavrov has a deep understanding of the issues and strives to rationally explain the reality without ‘spinning’ things. While listening to him, it is easy to see why he is considered…
IN BRIEF: Putin’s main statements at Russia Calling! forum
by Tass [12-4-2024 published]. (This total post is in 3 parts. Immediately following is a summary of Putin’s key points. It is followed by the official Kremlin Russian to English translation of his entire speech. Last is the video with simultaneous Russian to English translation. It is important to realize that the Russian economy has…
Trump’s dollar threat against BRICS shows the US hasn’t learned anything
by Tarik Cyril Amar [12-4-2024 published]. Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian from Germany working at Koc University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory. The president-elect’s crude attempt to scare away de-dollarization is based on an illusion of Washington’s…
United States Stated Objective: Total Military Dominance of the Entire Planet. Full Spectrum Dominance
by Richard C Cook [12-4-2024 published]. (After WW2, we were consistently told that the US was the “policeman” of the world as justification for the many military bases being set up around the world. The following article sheds an entirely different perspective on our activities. Many countries around the world have been waking up to…
Best Summary of Events that Led to the Special Military Operation in Ukraine
by Jeffrey Sachs, American economist, Professor, Columbia University [12-4-2024 published]. (This is an excellent brief summary by Professor Jeffrey Sachs about what led up to Russia entering Ukraine with their Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022. Most of the media, politicians, & government officials in the US try to blame Russia as though Russia…
Pepe Escobar: How Russia and China Are Rewiring Greek Mythology
by Pepe Escobar [11-29-2024 published] Pepe Escobar(bio). (This is an excellent analysis by Pepe Escobar. His discussion in the last section about de-dollarization goes into some complex financial transactions. Although I don’t fully understand all of the technical details, I can see where this is going and it definitely won’t benefit the US. It looks…
Beijing vows to protect itself from US economic ‘bullying’
by RT [12-2-2024 published]. (Here we have more examples about how ‘stupid’ it is on the part of the United States to apply tariffs & try to restrict certain products to be used by nations that the US considers ‘unfriendly’. Yes, in the short term it can cause pain for the targeted countries. But in…
Putin praises pace of import substitution in scientific sector
by Tass [12-2-2024 published]. (The West should have considered this before imposing so many sanctions on Russia. As has been noted elsewhere, the sanctions actually benefited Russia and have hurt the West. Obviously, this is hurting the sales of previous suppliers of scientific equipment that Russia purchased from. This is a strategy that the US…
Belt & Road Initiative is unique example of equal, mutually beneficial cooperation, says Russian expert
by Xinhua [12-2-2024 published]. Amid the rising problem of global trade barriers and protectionism, “the BRI emerges as a unique project that promotes globalization and equal, mutually beneficial cooperation among all participants, which underscores the initiative’s special significance,” said a Russian expert. MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) serves…