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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.
Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations fattening on the death and destruction of the Ukraine war.
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.”
The remarkable 93-year-old Noam Chomsky puts the Ukraine War in the largest and most devastating context possible, in a recent interview entitled “Chronicles of Dissent”.
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.
The US is groping in the dark about the Russian intentions in Ukraine. It keeps improvising and updating its narrative to cope with emergent realities that keep coming as nasty surprises.
The war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction some 13 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homes, and an estimated one-third of the country’s infrastructure has been destroyed.
Thank God, Russia eschews any triumphalism over the surrender of the so-called neo-Nazi Azov regiment in the Azovstal factory complex in Mariupol.
Russia is practising a warfare that the West is not used to — where wars aren’t won anymore. It is highly unlikely that there will be a ceremonial occasion bringing the Ukraine war to an end.
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