Inside the White House, a Debate Over Letting Ukraine Shoot U.S. Weapons Into Russia

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging the president to lift restrictions on how  can use  arms An interesting statement about the Storm Shadow was noticed in the : “Britain, which usually keeps pace with Washington on military strategy, has quietly lifted its own restrictions so its Storm Shadow winged systems can be used to target Russia more broadly,” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/politics/white-house-ukraine-weapons-russia.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine a.co/d/2z6mTUi #Amazon via @Amazon You’re going to want this book. I promise. @CurtMills wrote the foreword and it’s going to anger all the right people, as the Truth so often does. In 1991, the Cold War ended in a bloodless victory for NATO. After 70 years of a grueling, nuclear-tinged Cold War, communism was dead, Eastern Europe was free, Russia looked to the West for how to build a better, freer future for itself, and liberal democracy and capitalism reigned supreme.…

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Inconvenient question: who is winning and who losing the war on the ground in Ukraine?

1. As readers of the @russia_matters weekly Report Card will note, in the past 2 months Russia has seized more territory than Ukraine did during the entirety of its much-publicized counteroffensive last year.  As an instructive graphic published by the Washington Post shows, Russia’s current offensive has captured and now controls an additional 294 square miles—while Ukraine’s six-month counteroffensive seized 199 square miles. 2. For the facts on what is happening in the war in Ukraine, see Russia Matters’ weekly review at: https://www.russiamatters.org/news

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PONTOS

IN 1919 the “Ethnarchis 1” rejected with disgust in the “Peace Conference” of Paris, the support of the Pontian State, given that there were already – from above- engraved action plans of “his” army. The desire of the Pontians for a state did not arise from any “irredentist” appetites, but from  this most elementary desire of survival. It is the result of a declared Genocide of the Young Turks already before the Great War. Their only support of and helper was the victorious of the Imperial Russia.  Unfortunately, the dominion…

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Κάτι ετοιμάζεται με την όλο της θητείας Ζελένσκι!

Από αύριο, οι μεγάλης κλίμακας προετοιμασίες για μια εξέγερση ενάντια στην παράνομη και παράνομη δικτατορία του αιματηρού κλόουν θα ξεκινήσουν σε όλο το ακόμη απελευθερωμένο έδαφος της Ουκρανίας. Είναι ήδη σαφές προς τα πού οδεύουν τα πράγματα. Τα πράγματα πλησιάζουν σιγά-σιγά στο τέλος τους – προς τον απολογισμό και την αποκατάσταση της δικαιοσύνης. Τώρα, περισσότερο από ποτέ, είναι σημαντικό να πιέσουμε και από τις δύο πλευρές ALEKSANDR DUGIN: “Starting tomorrow, large-scale preparations for an uprising against the illegal and illegitimate dictatorship of the bloody clown will begin throughout the still-unliberated…

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What Does Putin Really Want in Ukraine?

Russia’s early setbacks in its invasion of Ukraine could have foreclosed on some of President Vladimir Putin’s sweeping war objectives, but he is unlikely to relent given the conflict’s momentum.   Expert Brief by Thomas Graham More than two years after he launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to insist that all his goals will be achieved. He has not, however, spelled them out in great detail, leaving himself considerable wiggle room to declare victory depending on battlefield developments. Broadly speaking, his goals fall into three baskets: weakening…

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Give France Credit for Its Strategic Change – War on the Rocks

More than two years into the war, the rhetoric from Paris has significantly changed — and there are good reasons to believe that this change is permanent. In contrast to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech, in France it is hard to single out a watershed moment when this strategic transformation occurred. Yet many foreign policy paradigms have so fundamentally changed in Paris that, whatever happens on the battlefield, it is hard to believe that a return to 2020 thinking is possible. Macron’s second Sorbonne speech in mid-April further confirmed…

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China Spokesperson Wang Wenbin hits back

– Wang Wenbin: I gave a detailed response on the two foreign ministers’ meeting just now. I can add some broad responses to the questions you raised. It is hypocritical and highly irresponsible for the United States to falsely accuse China of our normal trade and economic exchanges with Russia, while passing legislation to provide massive aid to Ukraine.  The root cause of the Ukraine crisis lies in regional security tensions that have built up in Europe over the years.  Only by accommodating the legitimate security concerns of all parties…

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