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On a weekend of coordinated protests across Europe calling for and end to the war in Ukraine; Also – “Despair and Joy in Berlin”: on the biggest peace rally in Berlin in many, many years.
A CNN report quoted an unnamed US official as saying Russia’s retaliation for western sanctions has put the West in “unchartered territory”. Suffice to say, Blinken’s call underscores the desperate urgency in Washington to open a line of communication to Moscow at the political level.
Russia’s Campaign in Ukraine: Nearing an Inflection Point?; and: Russia Teaches Europe ABC of Gas Trade.
Even as hunger and death stalked the city of Leningrad, her citizens found in themselves the strength to defy unspeakable terror one night in August 1942.
In this recent interview, Jacques Baud speaks about what is now happening in Ukraine, and the enthusiastic warmongering that still persists in the West.
India is “balancing” between Washington and Moscow and the BRICS summit was a great occasion to monitor that trapeze act.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented, “Hitler rallied a significant part, if not most, of the European nations under his banner for a war against the Soviet Union… now, the EU together with NATO are forming another—modern—coalition for a standoff and, ultimately, war with the Russian Federation.”
In Davos and beyond, NATO’s upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order.
Thank God, Russia eschews any triumphalism over the surrender of the so-called neo-Nazi Azov regiment in the Azovstal factory complex in Mariupol.
India and China stand to gain the most out of Russia’s quest for new markets. Russia has offered discounted prices to them and payment systems in local currencies. However, India and China’s response present a study in contrast.
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