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Aug 17 2025 
The Delicate Exit
“Now let them seek a delicate exit from the mess they’ve gotten themselves into — but we will achieve our objectives.” — VVP
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
My coalescing sense of the underwhelming Alaska Chats is that Russia has not materially varied from its longstanding terms.
Trump rolled into town with his “stealth” flyover, imagining he was… Continue reading
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Aug 16 2025 
Trump received the War’s Victor
Michael von der Schulenburg: Alaska Meeting Was a “Game Changer”
Excellent discussion and correct preliminary conclusion. “Trust-building” was leitmotif, to halt the runaway train to nuclear war. Reality between the two who count are now materially different. Europeans stand alone, and will cast off by Empire. “The Peace” is gonna be imposed on the crazed Europeans,… Continue reading
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Aug 14 2025 
Russian Defence Minister holds talks with heads of defence departments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger
Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov held a meeting with the heads of defence departments of the Confederation of Sahel States member countries (Burkina Faso, the Republic of Mali, the Republic of the Niger).
‘Today, we are holding the first consultations between the heads of the defence departments of the Russian Federation and… Continue reading
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Aug 13 2025 
Bear, Dragon, Elephant, Toucan, Nightingale stare down Goldfinger
Of course it’s all about Alaska. Here’s what’s in play. But it’s the shadowplay that’s even more exciting.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Of course it’s all about Alaska. Here’s what’s in play. But it’s the shadowplay that’s even more exciting.
Across the world, for those who grew up in the Cold War Swingin’ Sixties, the temptation is… Continue reading
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Aug 13 2025 
Stanislav Krapivnik: Russian Breakthrough goes deep
Stanislav talks about a few things but what is most important is to understand how the Russian SMO is just wailing ahead at this time. Over the past number of months many people have said Russia is moving ‘faster’. For me it was more as if the Ukraine front line is falling faster,… Continue reading
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Aug 12 2025 
The Bear and the Eagle Face-Off in Alaska
All eyes on Alaska. The Bear-Eagle face-off is part of an astonishing acceleration of history in the summer of 2025.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Two weeks after Alaska, there’s the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) annual summit in Tianjin, China. India’s Narendra Modi and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian will join, among others, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
What can the US do against China?
Preparing for aggression and “just in case” exercises.
By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
Trump found himself in a difficult situation. He failed to convince Russia to sign a peace treaty (or rather, a ceasefire) with Ukraine on American terms.
As far as I can tell, Trump’s confidence that Moscow would quickly accept his proposal was based on… Continue reading
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Jul 26 2025 
G20 Development Working Group Ministerial Meeting
The question on my mind is if the trend from the previous G20 meeting will continue. An early conclusion: It is a BRICS shop! The trend continues.
First we’ll take the 20, then we’ll take UN [massacred quote from Leonard Cohen].
Address (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2038128/) by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Aleksandr Pankin at G20… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2025 
Brian Berletic: Russian Arms Overwhelm Ukraine as War Escalates Following False US “Peace” Offers
About 30 minutes only.
The US proxy war in Ukraine predictably escalates following false US “peace” offers (Minsk 3.0) Russia has ignored;
While Russia’s military industrial production is overwhelming Ukraine and its Western sponsors, the US continues seeking a means to freeze the conflict and pivot toward… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2025 
The Evolution of Putin: Bullied Child, KGB Man, Autocrat | ITV News Documentary
The new ITV news propaganda called a documentary.
It is less than 30 minutes long and follows at the end. The first part is what one can expect from those who target Putin, but the last ten minutes become quite devastating.
There are some dots here. In the US, the headlines scream Russiagate, and in the UK,… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2025 
“Superhumans” on the March
What’s emerging in America is not a retreat from hegemony, but a reformatting of it.
By Artyom Lukin on Russia in Global Affairs.
[Ed.: this is a machine translation]
Where does the threat to the world come from, or Superhumans again on the march.
For half a thousand years, the West has been the dominant civilization in the world.… Continue reading -
Jul 18 2025 
And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for? NATO’s wars
The whole Circus Ringmaster shtick, with each plot twist draped in several layers of hubris and empty bluster, only accelerates the BRICS/Global South high-speed train…
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
All of you Vietnam vets and draft resisters will recognize where this column’s headline is coming from. Oh yes, this ain’t the late 1960s… Continue reading
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Jul 16 2025 
Rachel Blevins & Brian Berletic: U.S. Preparing for war on China, Trump extends war with Russia
President Trump has announced plans to arm Ukraine through weapons sales to Europe, as he also threatens Russia with “severe” sanctions, and reports say he is considering providing more long-range weapons to Kiev to strike deep inside Russia. In other words, so much for that promise of “ending the war” in Ukraine…
Brian Berletic, a geopolitical… Continue reading
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Jul 11 2025 
FM Sergey Lavrov: Presser – Russia-ASEAN meeting and ministerialof the East Asia Summit, Kuala Lumpur,
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions following the Russia-ASEAN meeting and the ministerial meeting of the East Asia Summit member states, Kuala Lumpur, July 11, 2025
[Please note the paragraph that I’ve bolded. Please also note the posts ‘Concentration camp’: Israel’s planned new city in Rafah, explained with comments between AHH and myself,… Continue reading
