[…] will to fight were not breaking under the strain and were unlikely to do so. Trump is actually the most rational and informed actor here other than Putin. . . .19 Pendry’s reference to ‘post-Soviet neo-nationalists’ sent me back to the big piece on the role of the far right in the Maidan Square […]
[…] Covert Action Magazine think Russia was justified in invading Ukraine? If so, they never quite state it. Perhaps they are inhibited by the fact that Russia under Putin is a murderous, fascist kleptocracy, whose leaders are motivated by greed and fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All […]
[…] will to fight were not breaking under the strain and were unlikely to do so. Trump is actually the most rational and informed actor here other than Putin. . . .6 Pendry’s reference to ‘post-Soviet neo-nationalists’ sent me back to the big piece on the role of the far right in the Maidan Square […]
[PDF file]: […] the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Christian Right legal operation which has offices in many cities, including London. And then there is the Christian Right’s admiration for Vladimir Putin. Franklin Graham (see below) actually had a 45 minute meeting with the man who had bought Russia back to Christianity in December 2015; while during the […]
[PDF file]: […] there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not ‘If you don’t cheat us as you did with NATO’s eastward expansion. You said NATO wouldn’t move one inch to the East.’41 The ‘inch […]
[PDF file]: […] big investigations by Reuters into aspects of Russia’s economy4 7 and the second is a long review of a new 46 47 book on the rise of Putin and his associates.4 8 The two articles are complimentary in many ways. Both show, for example, that the current Russian kleptocracy has been created with and […]
[…] there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not ‘If you don’t cheat us as you did with NATO’s eastward expansion. You said NATO wouldn’t move one inch to the East.’41 The ‘inch […]
[…] there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not ‘If you don’t cheat us as you did with NATO’s eastward expansion. You said NATO wouldn’t move one inch to the East.’41 The ‘inch […]
[…] there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not ‘If you don’t cheat us as you did with NATO’s eastward expansion. You said NATO wouldn’t move one inch to the East.’35 The ‘inch […]
[PDF file]: […] and comrade Trumpski So here’s one side. This is David Corn, a left-leaning writer, in the left-leaning Mother Jones: ‘Here are the indisputable basics. Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered a covert assault, employing information warfare, on the 2016 US election. A 2017 report of the intelligence community, the 2019 report of Special Counsel Robert […]
