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Mar 02 2025 
From Donbass to South Lebanon, and All Across BRICS, It’s All About Resistance
… the absolutely key imperative remains the Forever Wars chapter in Ukraine – whose resolution (or not) will deeply affect geopolitics for the rest of the century
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
For those who keep track of the slings and arrows crossing the broader geopolitical chessboard non-stop, it’s an immensely powerful – and humbling – experience… Continue reading -
Feb 20 2025 
In the Heart of Donbass: A Spiritual Travelogue
Please see earlier segments of this Saga of Love: [Transcending Avdeevka] [A Travelogue] [Trilogy of Hope]
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
AVDEYEVKA – It’s a snowy noon in Avdeyevka this past Saturday – exactly one year and two days after the liberation of the now completely destroyed city, and I am talking to two survivors of the… Continue reading
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Jun 07 2024 
Exciting Times
by Julian Macfarlane at News Forensics.
Lugansk: a war crime
The Ukrainians used ATACMs Missiles to strike Lugansk. Almost all were shot down but one (at least) got through — hitting an apartment building and killing 22 people.
Lugansk, of course, is now part of Russia. A red line crossed? Again?
St Petersburg SPIEF
But in St Petersburg, Putin was… Continue reading
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Jun 02 2024 
Ukraine: Russia won’t escalate, US will
The United States’ proxy war with Russia is at another inflection point. The battleground is shifting dramatically to Russian territory — something without precedent even in the Cold War. How this pans out will be a momentous event in 21st century politics.
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
There are three defining issues here. One,… Continue reading
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Mar 20 2024 
A Travelogue of Electoral Donbass
Donetsk, Avdeyevka, Mariupol – on the Road in Electoral Donbass
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
They have waited 10 long, suffering years to vote in this election. And vote they did, in massive numbers, certifying a landslide reelection for the political leader who brought them back to Mother Russia. VVP may now be widely referred to as… Continue reading -
Feb 21 2024 
Nordstream 3 unter Avdeevka
“Nord Stream Three” and the Russian capture of Avdeevka
by Gilbert Doctorow
In the past several weeks, I have complained that the Vesti news programs on Russian state television had become formulaic. They opened with micro-snapshots of the war from the front without giving an overview. They then featured the misery of civilians in Donbas under Ukrainian… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2024 
Resistance, Donbass to Gaza
“The Resistance in Donbass and Gaza share an essential common vision: overthrowing the unipolar hegemon…”
by Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
During my recent vertiginous journey in Donbass tracking Orthodox Christian battalions defending their land, Novorossiya, it became starkly evident that the resistance in these newly liberated Russian republics is fighting much the same battle as their counterparts in West Asia.
Nearly 10 years after Maidan… Continue reading
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Feb 17 2024 
Transcending Avdeevka
“… Civilians are the true heroes of the full liberation of Novorossiya, as much as the people scattered across Greater Syria – encompassing Palestine, Syria and Lebanon – Iraq and Yemen … there’s the road followed by the poet, or spiritual warrior, whose soul is the Aeolian harp summoning vast, unseen, miraculous forces.”
by Pepe Escobar… Continue reading
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Feb 14 2024 
The Spiritual Beat in Wartime Donbass
“… Deep down in the Donbass countryside, in communion with those living life during wartime, we feel the enormity of something inexplicable and vast, full of endless wonder, as if touching the Tao by silencing the recurrent loud booms. In Russian there is, of course, a word for it: “загадка”, roughly translated as “enigma” or… Continue reading
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Medvedev on referendums: DPR, LPR, Kherson
https://t.me/medvedev_telegram/178
The referendums in Donbass are crucial not only to the systemic protection of the residents of the LNR, DNR, and other liberated territories, but also to the restoration of historical justice.
They completely change the vector of Russia’s development for decades. And not only our country. Because after their implementation and acceptance of new territories in… Continue reading
