Thursday marked the 151st birthday of the most successful revolutionary of all time, Vladimir Lenin. With only a tiny cabal of diehard followers, Lenin seized control of the world’s largest country and inaugurated a reign of darkness and terror that lasted seventy years…
Saudi Crown Prince Calls U.S. Strategic Ally, Concedes Serious Disagreements with JoeBama, Then Signals He’s Diversifying Kingdom’s Portfolio of Alliances to Include China and Russia…
On 5th anniversary of the rollout of his sweeping Vision 2030 economic reform plan, MBS tells interviewer he wants good relations with Biden administration, but “we’re also working on strengthening our alliances with our partners throughout the world”…
Did the U.S. Just Try to Murder Balurus’s President Lukashenko?…
Amazing news over the week-end: President Lukashenko has declared that Biden gave the order to kill him in a coup organized by the CIA. Now, we all know that Lukashenko says all sorts of things, many of them false or plain silly. Except that the Russian FSB has confirmed it all!…
Flashpoint Ukraine: Don’t Poke the Bear…
If the Russian army crosses the Ukrainian border, it won’t stop in the Donbas. The war will be brief and the Ukraine will be split into pieces. But will it happen? Russia’s totem animal, the Bear, is a strong and peaceful animal that is not easily aroused, but once provoked, it is unstoppable. Russian rulers have typically fit this image. They weren’t adventurous, but level-headed and prudent…
Vladimir Putin on Petty Tabaquis and International Issues…
Today Russia’s President Vladimir Putin gave his annual Address to the Federal Assembly (English transcript). Most of his talk was about domestic and economic issues. At the end he made some remarks towards international developments and other governments…
The Ukraine Crisis Recedes – But a False Narrative of It Leads to Bad Conclusions…
Some two month ago we discussed how the U.S. focus on narratives will let it collide with reality. It is certainly not only the U.S. government that creates narratives, comes to believe in them, and then fails when it is confronted with reality. Carried by think tanks and media the narrative mold has grown throughout the wider ‘western’ world…
Taiwan Ally Pararguay Rejects ‘Blackmail’ Following Chinese Attempt at Vaccine Diplomacy…
Paraguayan president said country open to vaccine deals ‘without any conditions involving our diplomatic relations’…
The Blundering Biden Team…
“Biden is a national embarrassment on foreign policy,” a colleague wrote in a note over the weekend. This is the very mildest assessment of the administration’s doings last week. In a matter of three days, Joe Biden and those who actually run policy — primarily Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan — have plunged America into crisis with two of planet Earth’s most powerful nations, both nuclear armed, both essential to addressing global problems that cannot be solved without common efforts, both heretofore explicitly open to cooperative ties to the U.S…
U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan Booted Out of Russia…
NZ’s foreign minister said Wellington ‘uncomfortable’ with pressuring Beijing…Five Eyes alliance last year started issuing statements condemning China…
Russia to Expel 10 American Diplomats and Considering ‘Painful’ Measures Aimed at U.S. Businesses — Lavrov
Ten US diplomats will have to leave Russia in response to Washington’s expelling of Russian diplomats, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, adding that Moscow is looking at other sanction options if unfriendly steps continue…
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