Open Thread 139, by Anatoly Karlin

Former JFK Aide: What The West Gets Wrong About Putin

  When we first met, he already knew the power of terrifying adversaries… In 1999, Vladimir Putin suddenly sprang from bureaucratic obscurity to the office of Prime Minister. When, a few months later, Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and Putin was voted in as President, governments around the world were taken by surprise yet again. How could […]

The US’ “Security Pact” With Kiev Regime: Ukraine NATO Membership No longer Contemplated. WWIII “Could Break Out Through Miscalculation – Andrew Korybko

Neither the US nor Russia wants Ukraine in NATO, each for different reasons, yet the US wants to continue militarizing Ukraine so that it can keep waging NATO’s proxy war on Russia while Russia wants to demilitarize Ukraine in order to end Ukrainian-emanating NATO proxy threats to its security. Zelensky celebrated his country’s new security […]

That Ukraine Prosecutor Biden Had Fired – Was Trump Right All Along? – Graham J Noble

Ukraine, facing a possible invasion by Russian military forces, is again in the news here in the United States, and another story involving that country – one which Joe Biden would almost certainly have hoped everyone forgot – has come to light once more. It seems former President Donald Trump may have been right to have been […]