I never take news articles like this at face value. Ever. I’ll explain why? Miami Herald A Russian military officer defected to Lithuania, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member, on Thursday, requested political asylum in an attempt to escape the war with Ukraine. News of the development broke on Friday from BBC News, which […]
An article from the Guardian that just states the obvious- The known. For years and years now. Scientific misconduct has enjoyed some limelight lately. The president of Stanford, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, resigned last month after a series of investigations exposed serious problems in his research; an independent review of Tessier-Lavigne’s work found no evidence that he […]
Oped from UnHerd- making some very good points! The American regime has become a tawdry theatrocracy in which political actors, hypokritai in Greek, play stock characters in a loathsome farce. In the run-up to the 2024 elections, Donald Trump stars as the persecuted saviour, and Joe Biden the righteous defender, of the American republic. Never […]
Fox News Ukrainian authorities have mandated the evacuation of nearly 12,000 civilians from 37 towns and villages in the Kharkiv region, as reports indicate that Russian forces are intensifying their efforts to breach the front lines. Residents in the Kharkiv region have been directed to adhere to the evacuation order or sign a document acknowledging […]
An expanded thought on the US State Dept’s rhetoric.. When the US State Department empty head/empty words mouthpiece speaks in this manner- It’s clear that Zelensky is being held up as the one responsible for all the misery Ukrainians are suffering– But this is untrue- Remember way back in March of 2022- Zelensky was ready […]
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Erdogan Warns of Black Sea Crisis
Rio Times Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed concerns about a regional crisis should the conflict between Russia and Ukraine expand into the Black Sea. Speaking at the annual Turkish ambassadors’ conference in Ankara, he emphasized, “If the war extends to the Black Sea, it would be a complete disaster for our entire region.” […]
Diplomatic Courier Who should pay for Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction? Shortly after Russia’s invasion, my co-authors and I estimated that it would cost roughly €200-500 billion ($220-550 billion) to rebuild the country and called for Europe to spearhead the recovery effort. After more than 500 days of death and destruction, the projected costs have probably at […]
Gallier2 left this link. It’s an in depth read. Excerpts below The dysfunction of the West is far deeper than just the situation around the Ukraine project. It’s absolutely everywhere. The West can’t do diplomacy in general, it can’t run its cities or countries except into the ground, its high-tech projects fail almost as a […]
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Niger Closes Airspace
There was a deadline, which has come and gone, for reinstatement of the ousted government. The present government has closed the airspace above Niger, obviously in anticipation of some foreign intervention via the skies above. Clearly, an attempt to thwart this intervention. The US has had direct contact with the present day government and have […]
The headline changed from when I saved the BBC article yesterday. It read more like this.. Ukraine counter offensive two months in and no real gains In the 18 months since Russia invaded, the Ukrainians have mostly been on the defensive, preventing Moscow’s forces from seizing more territory. But this summer, Ukraine – with the […]