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 ‘garden’ its elites imagine but a field of fat weeds thriving on the blood of hundreds of millions it has enslaved,...
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 go, but the Ukrainian people remain.
The Future ...
... any revolutionary intentions in our country. The only problem is that the US and Europe themselves, in striving to protect their positions, are now acting as destroyers of globalisation.
It is also important to see the nuances of expert assessments in Russia, China and the countries of the World Majority in terms of current conflicts and the prospects for their resolution. For most countries which remain friendly to Russia, it is obvious that the military-political confrontation in Europe is the result of Western policy. To the same extent, it is obvious to them that substantively,...
..., Moscow worked to regain lost status, prestige, and influence on the world stage.
Syria symbolized the culmination of that process: Russia’s first decisive intervention beyond its immediate post-Soviet neighborhood in one of the world’s central conflicts.
The new Russia had acted militarily before, but only within its former Soviet sphere. This presumably led then-US President Barack Obama to dismiss the country as a
“regional power.”
The Syrian intervention shattered that perception. By decisively altering ...
Immanuel Kant: “Out of wood so crooked as that of which man is made, nothing absolutely straight can be wrought”
Queen Louise Bridge over the Russian-Lithuanian border, Summer 2023
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Challenging times await. Lithuania is reinforcing its border to Kaliningrad Oblast, formerly Königsberg. New barriers known as “dragon’s teeth” have been installed on the Queen Louise Bridge at the ...
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,...
The era of Washington’s belief in the need to manage global affairs is coming to an end, and the president-elect will help shape the world
Let’s be clear, the outcome of the US election won’t change the world. Processes that didn’t begin yesterday won’t tomorrow. But the American vote has become an important indicator of long-term change.
The columnists of the liberal New York Times, which actively supported Kamala Harris, declared on the morning after the election: It is time to recognize that...
'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 unchanged. Russia is open to a politico-diplomatic settlement that ...
The decision was long overdue and is a response to reckless agression from Washington
Updating Russia’s nuclear doctrine is certainly not a spontaneous step. It is long overdue and is linked to the fact that the current level of atomic deterrence has proven inadequate. Especially given that it failed to prevent the West from waging a hybrid war ...
... present in the information sphere, but that is different from the real one. (The virtual battlefield sometimes seems to be the more important one, as each side imagines its own preferred world there and freely ignores the other’s.)
The states that in Russia are called the World Majority specifically value detachment from others’ conflicts because they see this as guaranteeing their own sovereignty.
Military confrontation weakens the major powers, limiting their influence on others and providing the others with greater room for maneuver.
This is a global trend that will hold regardless ...
