... department to check the spending of previously allocated funds. This has already led to the first resignations of Ukrainian officials. Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has come under attack.
Another scandal has broken out in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. According to the statement of the "Anti-Corruption Action Center", the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has opened a criminal case on abuse of power from official position. This article provides for a punishment of up to six ...
Peace on the continent requires breaking the imperialist legacy
Any outcome of the Ukraine conflict framed as a ‘compromise’ would be celebrated in the West as a victory and perceived as a failure by Russia. This must be avoided at all costs.
First, Russia must openly confront Western Europe’s historical culpability. It’s not ...
The coming post-conflict process will mark the beginning of a stable and secure future for both nations
There’s a timeless rule: in peace, prepare for war; in war, think about peace. As the conflict in Ukraine nears its inevitable conclusion – a Russia victory – our thoughts must turn toward the future and to the shape of the peace that follows.
To paraphrase Stalin: The Banderites [followers of the WW2 Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera] come and ...
..., since they can constrain the global agitators of our time.
The most recent example: Germany’s “no” to the EU’s punitive tariffs on imports of electric vehicles from China. And Olaf Scholz’s clear “no” to supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine. These are clear signals from Germany to China and Ukraine.
The illusion of a perfect world
In the spirit of Kant: People all have their rough edges. It’s hard to make something straight of all that, something that is 100% coherent, a world ...
The breakdown of private Russia-NATO diplomacy increases the risks of a terrible event
The ongoing standoff over Ukraine is increasingly becoming a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO, raising serious concerns about the risk of nuclear escalation.
In this new phase, both Moscow and the bloc’s leading members have nuclear capabilities, and how these powers ...
'Dangerous Consequences' for US in Ukraine
Newsweek: As the Ukraine conflict continues, how different is Russia's position than in 2022 and how are the costs of conflict being weighed against the progress made toward strategic objectives?
Lavrov:
Our position is widely known and remains ...
... and concrete manifestations of lowering the nuclear threshold here and now to show the West that the risks for it are increasing. And they need to understand that entering into a direct war against us would be much worse for them than the defeat of Ukraine on the battlefield.
As for the reactions of parties not involved in our conflict with the West, my personal experience of communicating with experts from such countries shows that China, despite its public stance on the inadmissibility of the ...
... conflicts of various scales, whose outcomes define the new international system. Events since the early 2010s—Iraq and Syria—seemed to confirm this assumption, and they entered into their decisive phase with the outbreak of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine, and Palestine. These conflicts, directly linked to the great powers, are painful and destructive, but implicitly motivated by the need to resolve the contradictions impeding the new world order’s formation.
In the fall of 2024, such an understanding is in need of correction....
Kiev’s leadership isn’t acting in the interests of its own people; instead, it serves Washington’s agenda and those of its closest allies
Ukraine is not a sovereign state. Russia is dealing with an entity that isn’t acting in its own interests, and one operating directly on its borders at that. Therefore, interaction with such a territory – including formal negotiations – would be ...
... between Russia and NATO was considered unlikely, and the corresponding ideas of using nuclear weapons during local or regional conflicts with the United States they were not detailed, at least not publicly. Today, as it seems to me, the situation offers ... ... strategists of the 1990s.
Elena Karnaukhova: Now there are so many discussions about the use of tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Ukraine again in the context of the concept
escalate to de-escalate
. Is this just rhetoric, evidence of speculative
intelligence ...
