I doubt very much that any logical conclusion could be drawn that would negate or disavow the above statement, and since its conclusion also forms the title of a recently published essay on the subject, I need not elucidate further on that. I simply point you to the piece since I am in complete agreement... Continue Reading →
iT’S oIL oVER fOR eUROPE
Oops! My recent online gaming session has left me with 'Caps Lock' on. I often find that to be the case, and ...hey... I'd go mad if I didn't find some external mental release from the warped and twisted forms of cruel reality. But this time I'm going to leave it how it is -... Continue Reading →
Why Russia Will Succeed Against All Adversity
I have never in my life seen such a moving theatrical spectacle as I just witnessed, played out on the grand scale with a cast of thousands in front of an open air audience, both consisting of several generations of Russians, many of them moved to tears. President Xi and wife were there as guests... Continue Reading →
…on ‘Power’, and ‘Fear’
This is no April 1st prank. It is deadly serious. I rarely these days post a full copy of any article I find online. I had to make an exception with this one, because it exposes everything I think which underlies all events in the world we know today. Such powerful writing. Such intimate familiarity... Continue Reading →
If You Are Interested in Current Global Financial and Economic Issues…
I am simply going to suggest that you read this piece, fresh from the keyboard of Pepe Escobar... 'Russia's judo kick to the western financial gut' - The Cradle You can also find this on the Saker blog too. It never hurts to have more than one source for views that are off-mainstream these days,... Continue Reading →
Russia More Interested in Syria Than Ukraine Right Now
Turning now from a situation which holds everybody's attention just now - Ukraine - scene of yet another hasty US and western withdrawal (they like it better in Lvov (Lviv) than Kiev - it's as far west and close to an EU border you can get and still be in Ukraine), to something of greater... Continue Reading →
The United States is a Trouble Maker Not a Peace Broker. Russia is a Peace Broker.
The role of peace broker does not suit the US even one iota. They have never known a period of peace in their entire history. In fact whenever the threat of peace comes up, they go and start a war somewhere, so as not to break their record of continuous conflict. Of course this is... Continue Reading →
The ‘One Meeting’ To End Them All
The most important meeting of 2022 is set to take place on January 10, 2022 in Geneva. It is a meeting for Russia to receive the response of the US to Russia's demands for security guarantees on a legal contractual basis and documented in a handover to the US by Russian authorities on December 15,... Continue Reading →
“For the Russian fighters on the battlefield such words as ‘honor’, ‘dignity’ and ‘courage’ are not meaningless”
This is about 'Private Military Companies', those unofficial armies of, I would say, almost exclusively ex-soldiers, meaning that they are in reality 'mercenaries' - paid, unlicensed, war machines for hire, and their role in the world where officially licensed soldiery i.e. the military wing of national governments, are just too expensive or too controversial to... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 