CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—In a 2015 Consortium News article titled “The Mess That Nuland Made,” the late Robert Parry singled out Nuland as the primary architect of the 2014 regime change operation in Ukraine, which, as Aaron Maté explained last year, paved the way to the war we’re seeing there today. Hopefully, her position winds up being temporary.
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EDITOR—This is Part 1 & 2, and the conclusion of Scott Ritter’s investigation of V. Zelensky’s origins, as a full-fledged product of Western intel calculated to turn Ukraine into a battering ram against Russia. Ritter exposes Zelensky’s corruption, enormous greed, and willingness to play a role that literally condemns a whole nation to gradual destruction, all to please his Western handlers.
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ANDREW KORYBKO—The US and France are jointly waging proxy wars against Russia in Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR) since these states function as their respective regions’ multipolar cores. The West fears that Niger and Chad, its last strongholds in West and Central Africa correspondingly, could follow in neighboring Mali’s and the CAR’s footsteps to create a multipolar corridor across a broad swath of the continent.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Apparently, Russia (just like China, in its approach) is relying upon African nations’ negative experiences of U.S.-and-allied imperialism, in order to attract Africa’s nations to an alternative to The West’s win-lose exploitative and coercive model of economic and social development, so as to enable constructive, win-win, international relationships to take root and to grow.
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ALASTAIR CROOKE—To be blunt, both the U.S. and Europe have stalked brazenly into traps of their own making. Caught in the lies and deceit woven around a claimed inheritance of superior cultural DNA, (vouchsafing, it is said, almost certain victory), the West is awakening to a fast-approaching disaster to which there are no easy solutions. Cultural exceptionalism, together with the prospect of a clear ‘win’ over Russia, are draining rapidly away – but exiting delusion is both slow and humiliating.
