Last Week's Episode—Ukraine Crisis Fueled by U.S. and NATO Expansion The outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine did not come out of nowhere. Fundamental to understanding the current crisis is the history of U.S. and NATO expansion in Europe—which the U.S. repeatedly promised Russia would not happen. Richard Becker...
Website accused Andriy Portnov of being a traitor On May 22, Andriy Portnov, 51, was assassinated in Madrid, just after dropping off his children at the American School. A lawyer by training, Portnov was a leading opposition figure in Ukraine who was forced to flee the country after the February 2014...
Meet Some of America’s Newest Best Friends With barely a whisper of protest from either the media or the American people, Barack Obama and Joe Biden supported and empowered a group of far-right, Nazi-idolizing, Hitler-worshipping, anti-Semitic militias to fight against Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine. Members of these militias had participated...
Threats and counter-threats flying between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have caused a flurry of fear and confusion that escalates and expands daily. Is the world on the brink of war? What is it about, who is the aggressor and who is to blame? The dangerous standoff has lasted for...
CIA Director Burns subsequently went to Moscow to try and intimidate Putin into revoking troop buildup on Ukrainian border Part 1 On October 18th, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to affirm U.S. support for Ukraine’s war against its eastern provinces. Since the beginning of...
A Part of Obama’s Legacy that Presumably Won’t Be Celebrated in his $482 Million Presidential Library I recently witnessed the exhumation of human remains from a mass grave that contains more than 200 bodies. It was a profound and profoundly disturbing experience. Each body in this grave represents an unnecessary...
Muslims Are Linked to Islamic Terrorism U.S. political officials continuously justify spending billions of taxpayer dollars on arms shipments to Ukraine by claiming they are supporting a struggle of democracy versus autocracy. The Zelensky government in Ukraine, however, has banned 12 opposition parties and assassinated political rivals. Newly disclosed documents...
Already made vacation plans? How about something completely new? How about a country where “the air smells of freedom”? How about a vacation in Ukraine? The brave political tourists have led the way: British prime ministers (three in number), the American president, the German chancellor, the entire European Commission and many...
In Reality It Resulted Largely from Kyiv’s Destruction of Eastern Ukraine’s Economy Under Neo-Liberal Economic Policies Pushed by Washington Since the 1990s The war in Ukraine is commonly seen through one of two lenses. The vision presented by Western, NATO-aligned powers is one of an astro-turfed Donbas separatism created by...
Ukraine's energy system, as well as storage facilities, oil and gas pipelines, stations, and related infrastructure, which until 2022 supplied the bulk of hydrocarbons and electricity to the European Union, have now effectively ceased to exist. Ukraine is experiencing a significant shortage of gas and oil for its own...