The question in the title is pertinent not just to the collective West’s stance toward Russia, but to Serbia as well. The author presents a plausible case that the West’s stubborn “support” for Ukraine is motivated by corrupt considerations to the highest degree. It is in fact due to the West’s need to seize Ukraine’s vast lithium reserves situated in the Donbass in order to sustain its green energy technologies. What is the relevance to Serbia? Considerable lithium reserves have also been discovered in Serbia and notoriously unscrupulous Western mining corporations like Rio Tinto are circling like sharks with the…
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Not one of the items that follow will strike a typical resident of the “collective West,” aka the 14 percent of the world that styles itself the “international community,” as inherently improbable or even odd in many instances. They have grown accustomed to it; it is part of their everyday landscape. Here, for illustrative purposes, is a select but representative sample of policies and prescribed behaviours that in that bizarre but thankfully shrinking part of the world have come to constitute the new normal. In order to maintain the fiction that in their attributes men and women are physiologically indistinguishable,…
Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos’ remarkably accurate analysis of current political events in Serbia unfortunately stands alone, but that does not detract in the least from its pertinence. We warmly recommend his remarks to our readers and we are firmly convinced that he will be vindicated in every detail. https://youtu.be/M1R2Tb05_xc
This is one of very few sober assessments of the turbulent events currently in progress in Serbia. Under his government, Serbia clinched an “Individual Partnership Action Plan” with NATO, the same alliance that bombed it for 78 days in 1999. It’s also an official EU aspirant and has informally recognized Kosovo & Metohija’s self-declared “independence” at Brussels’ urging. Furthermore, Serbia voted against its historical Russian ally at the UN over Ukraine in solidarity with its new Euro-Atlantic partners. For all intents and purposes, Serbia has proven itself to be less reliable of a partner for Russia than many Global South…
Zaluzhny knows better than anyone else in Ukraine that his side’s envisaged maximum victory over Russia is impossible, but it’s still being sought in spite of that because it’s ultimately Zelensky’s decision whether or not to continue the conflict. His order to fortify the entire front instead of resuming peace talks with Russia per reported Western pressure and unilaterally complying with its requested security concessions in defiance of his patrons is why more conscription is needed. Zelensky revealed during a press conference on Tuesday that the military wants to mobilize up to half a million more conscripts, but he said that he’s…
U.S. Conservatives display their impotence and confused thinking once again Some time ago The American Conservative, house organ of the American Ideas Institute, published an interesting text, “America requires a real foreign policy debate” by author Doug Bandow. It is well worth reading. It purports to be a critique of U. S. foreign policy. A critique of sorts it is, in the broad sense that its fundamental, and indisputable, thesis is that U.S. foreign policy does not serve America’s interests. The argument developed by Bandow is, however, a classic example of basically sound conclusions supported by weak and timidly formulated…
What took the British so long? We learned from the Guardian recently that British “partners” have embarked on a long-overdue project to fabricate a history for Ukraine, “to wrest Ukraine’s past from the shadow of Russian and Soviet narratives.” Projection is evident right from the start. A narrative, the definition of which is a self-serving false account, is being concocted in London to counter not another equally false narrative but to undermine the historically attested perception shared by inhabitants of both contemporary Russia and Ukraine that they are, indeed, “one people.” That is exactly what was pointed out in you…
The precise road map of the Ukraine War Crimes Tribunal is still an enigma. Even the format of the court, as a Russian or an international legal institution, remains unclear. Perhaps there are good reasons for holding back on such details at this particular stage. Recent revelations coming from the top echelons of the Ukrainian regime nevertheless highlight once again the important question of how the Ukrainian Tribunal will go about its tasks. According to David Arakhamia, an influential Zelensky associate and Ukraine’s negotiator at the peace talks held in March of 2022, what many have suspected has now been…
Considering all the disadvantageous dynamics that are rapidly converging nowadays, there’s little doubt that NATO’s proxy war on Russia is winding down, though that doesn’t automatically mean that the conflict will soon freeze. The failure of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Russia’s victory over NATO in the “race of logistics”, the West’s prioritization of aid to Israel amidst its war with Hamas, US congressional dysfunction, and the upcoming election season have combined to create a crisis for NATO’s proxy war on Russia through Ukraine. These analyses from late August onward will bring everyone up to speed about what’s happening if they haven’t been closely following this New Cold…
It would be premature to conclude that their prior implied talks about a “New Détente”, or a series of mutual compromises across multiple domains aimed at reaching a “new normal” in their ties, are back on track. Too much has happened since February’s balloon incident derailed that grand strategic trajectory, but a moderate series of mutual compromises is indeed possible. Instead of resolving their rivalry, however, they’d only serve to better manage it. Presidents Xi and Biden met for the first time in a year on Wednesday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) in San Francisco. Their get-together took place as the…