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Aug 18 2025 
What really happened in Alaska
The Putin–Trump meeting dropped some important veils. It revealed that Washington views Russia as a peer power, and that Europe is little more than a useful American tool.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
Alaska was not only about Ukraine. Alaska was mostly about the world’s top two nuclear powers attempting to rebuild trust and apply the… Continue reading
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May 17 2025 
The Istanbul Kabuki — decoded
The endgame is clear: the US losing the entire Eurasian land mass. Ukraine, under these immense geopolitical imperatives, is only a sovereign-deprived pawn in the (Great) Game.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Did President Putin really change the game by proposing the resumption of negotiations on the proxy war in Ukraine in Istanbul –… Continue reading
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Mar 19 2025 
A Hard Rain’s a-gonna Fall – from the West down to the East
In this incandescent juncture, what matters is off the record.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with that phone call. The is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage… Continue reading
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Mar 14 2025 
Putin peels off the Masks of the Ceasefire Kabuki
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.
As we peel off the successive masks,… Continue reading
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Feb 19 2025 
Let the New Great Game begin
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen. On the Victory Day parade in Moscow next May 9, celebrating 80 years of the end of the Great Patriotic War and the… Continue reading
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Feb 11 2025 
Keep on Trumpin’
Either Ukraine surrenders unconditionally – or the war show must go on. Meanwhile, let’s Keep on Trumpin’.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Mr. Disco Inferno has reverted to his default mode of throwing tantrum after tantrum because nearly everybody in West Asia and beyond is sayin’ NO to the Gaza Riviera Resort and Casino scam.
Here’s a… Continue reading
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Feb 04 2025 
SMO: Large frontline summary 27-31 January 2025 – Marat Khairullin
From Marat’s Substack
Today, a surprising situation has developed. To understand what is happening at the front, it is necessary to take into account the international context, and vice versa, without taking into account international issues, it is impossible to analyze the situation at the front.
Therefore, let us immediately outline foreign policy priorities in order to… Continue reading
