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Turkey tells NATO that Sweden won’t join at next NATO meeting

Hungary has not endorsed Sweden’s entry either Ratification of Sweden’s Membership will not be completed in time for this most recent meeting (taking place over the next two days) Turkey has informed NATO that ratification of Sweden’s membership bid will not be completed in time to allow the country’s accession ceremony at a meeting of […]

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Turkey’s FM Voices Concerns over Israeli Nukes

Link Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday said that Muslim countries had chosen the path of diplomacy and humanitarian aid to solve the issue of Gaza. Talking to Qatar-based Al Jazeera, Fidan expressed concerns that Israel’s continued possession of nuclear weapons could heighten the nuclear arms race, leading to an unfavorable situation. “The ongoing possession […]

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Media Stories On Ukraine Point To War’s End

The past few hectic days have kept me away from the site, but, I’ve been following along with current events as much as possible. And am now trying to find reports reflective of what appears to be happening. Earlier one covering the new and extreme McCarthyism and this one because Ukraine’s counter offensive ran out […]

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War-weary mothers, wives and children of Ukrainian soldiers demand a cap on military service time

I’ve excluded the paragraph pertaining to the perception management regarding momentum and knock out blows.. My understanding is Russia regularly rotates soldiers and it appears Russia will gain the upper hand in Avdiivka, if they do the loss will be enormous for Ukraine Link KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Scores of protesters gathered on the streets […]

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Ukraine receives potentially game-changing long-range US missiles

Link Ukraine has finally received long-range ATACMS missiles from the United States and has begun deploying them against Russian targets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on October 17. In his daily video address, Zelenskyy thanked the US directly for the precision weapons and quipped that Ukraine’s agreements with President Biden are being implemented “very accurately.” […]

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Beyond the Neo-Con Debacle to Peace in Ukraine

I’m certain some readers here will take issue with the author of this opinion piece. That’s okay. I’m of the mind there is value in what he has written Jeffrey Sachs We are entering the end stage of the 30-year US neocon debacle in Ukraine. The neocon plan to surround Russia in the Black Sea […]

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Cui Bono- A year after North Stream Blown- EU reels, US Happy

Cui Bono- Who benefits? The biggest beneficiary is most assuredly the perpetrator. Read entirely at link included. A year after the Nord Stream pipeline attacks, European energy markets are shaken – and the Americans are happy Just the facts.. Oh the culprits can be figured out quite easily when we think of which party benefits […]

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Russia scrambles as EU surges in Caucasus

Indian Punchline Armenia no longer disputes that Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan. The prospect of peaceful resolution of a regional conflict ought to be good news, but this is an incredibly complex situation with an external environment where a brutal war is raging with no end in sight, and the protagonists pursue contrarian interests.  A settlement […]

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A populist leftist wins in Slovakia

Interesting that it’s reported he’s a left populist- His party is not the west leaning liberal party.. So leftists and liberals are not the same. I would agree with that. The Liberals, here in Canada, are technocrats or autocrats. They aren’t leftists, though they are certainly Liberal A populist former prime minister and his leftist […]

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Russia says France’s position on Karabakh settlement ‘biased’

France’s position biased- Oh, yah. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that France’s position on the Karabakh settlement is biased. In response to a question from an Anadolu reporter at a news conference in Moscow, Zakharova said Paris is pursuing its own interests in the Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization process. “It is obvious that […]

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