Category: Russia
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Critical time for the world, is America up to it…?
It was sad to see Biden stumble about on stage and lose his train of thought. Neither candidate seemed that well-informed and if the free world rests on the inconsistencies of Trump or the frailty of Biden, the world is in trouble. There was an element of sadness that the frailties of Biden were on display,…
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Revisionists and war
It is just about the only time that arguments are defined biblically, but the start of extended wars has encapsulated not just Netanyahu but also Putin. The war in Gaza is one of biblical proportions according to the hard line cabinet that Netanyahu has gathered as a government. In many ways Putin has argued that…
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Ukraine – NATO…. Russia
Constants are at the top of the list in Warsaw and Paris; the Baltic’ nations press ever harder for Ukraine to join NATO, but Germany and the US have made certain that Ukraine will not be joining NATO any time soon. The constant in this equation is Putin, who has been re-elected with an eighty…
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Putin’s confidence in winning the war, not just in Ukraine.
Yesterday was the day of the funeral of Alexei Nevalny… A sombre affair with thousands queueing to pay their respects. They stood in silence holding onto flowers and entered the Orthodox church while being monitored by the state security forces. There was no family apart from Navalny’s parents. Alexei Navalny’s wife was in Europe, doing her…
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Ukraine 2 years on
It is two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the meat-grinder that is the war – is not slowing down. Advika, is the latest town to fall to Russia. But Ukraine with a shortage of ammunition held back by the US Congress’, due to their inability to differentiate right from wrong; Congress are now electioneering for the…
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End of Alex Navalny… thank you for making me laugh.
Alexei Navalny, found his poisoner, he confronted him and questioned his technique. It was just a few drops of a Novichok type of substance on his underpants that led to him being put into a coma. A flight to Germany, a three week coma and waking up in another country was the price of life.…
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Is US intelligence being undone by the isolationists in US Congress.
The rise of intelligence agencies activities is not much of a surprise, but the movement into the realm of technology is a spate that worries those who remember Edward Snowdon and Julian Assange’s warnings of mission creep. That William Burns, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency is writing in this weeks Foreign Affairs, tells…
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Welcome to a new year
Welcome to a new year. There are so many important elections to look forward to this year, but this is the year of critical argument where nations are dependent on the outcome of two very important elections that will determine how the world is seen and moves forward. The first election is a given, it…
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The run up to the elections in Russia
In March, Putin stands for re-election, it is almost certain that he will win. He has been polling at sixty percent and the nearest opposition, which is the Communist Party is polling at four percent. Of course there was Prigozhin who polled at six percent before he and his entourage were killed, but there is…
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The movement away from the forever wars.
There is nothing quite like the spite of Putin, the end of Karabakh’s Armenian population is down to Armenia moving closer to the West. But the reasoning behind Putin’s negation of the Armenian population is down to larger concerns for the Russian government. The war in Ukraine has stripped the Russian military from much of…