EDITOR—Garland carefully dissects the Russian way of war, its by now irrefutable capacity to out-produce and out-match the West in war materials and military personnel qualifications, and how Moscow is now systematically using its accumulated strategic weight to cause a gigantic tide of collapse—political and military—across Ukraine, leaving the West no real options, except delusions and stubborn propaganda, none of which will deny the facts on the ground imposed by the Red Army. Since the end of WW2 (if not far longer) the West has been plotting the encirclement and downfall of first the Soviet Union and then Russia. Protestations by Russia that this was unacceptable fell on deaf ears. Eventually, after the US coup in Kiev in 2014, the Western alliance showed up literally on Russia’s doorstep, “Moscow’s front yard”, forcing the country, now under Pres. Putin, to rapidly put its economy and military industries on a war footing.
Russia again tried the diplomatic route to no avail until 2021, but in 2022 Pres. Putin, witnessing the way the Kiev regime’s army was shelling the Donbas area with a view to conquering those rebel provinces by force, ordered the SMO into Ukraine. Three or four NATO-trained and supplied armies later, and probably no less than 300,000 to perhaps even 500,000 dead and wounded, plus substantial destruction of Ukraine’s infrastructure…
NATO GANGSTERISM
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SPUTNIK—“The regime in Kiev and its Western abettors should finally realize that their reckless steps are bringing the situation ever closer to the accumulation of an explosive ‘critical mass’,” Moscow warned, urging the other side to rethink its positions.
Separately on Monday, the Ministry summoned British Ambassador to Russia Nigel Casey to warn him over the implications of Foreign Minister David Cameron’s comments during his May 2 visit to Kiev about the admissibility of using British weaponry to carry out strikes on Russian territory, stressing that the comments signal London’s admission of its role as a direct party to the Ukrainian crisis, and that Moscow will treat it accordingly.
“The ambassador was told that the Russian side views D. Cameron’s words as evidence of a serious escalation, and confirmation of London’s growing involvement in military operations on the side of Kiev. N. Casey was warned that the response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons on Russian territory could include any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and beyond,” the ministry said.
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ALEX LO—As recounted by Princeton political scientist Gary Bass in The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, Washington gave the go-ahead to the Pakistani army in 1971 to launch Operation Searchlight that killed at least 300,000 Bengalis and forced 10 million to flee. The genocide was halted by India’s military intervention, leading to the establishment of Bangladesh. In 1965-66, with full support from the CIA and the State Department, the anti-communist purge launched by Suharto after his coup against Sukarno cost the lives of up to a million Indonesians.
About 3 million Vietnamese were killed in the war waged by the US in their country. -
New Atlas LIVE: Iran Strikes Back – Tehran Steps into US Trap, is it Prepared? The New Atlas
8 minutes readTHE NEW ATLAS—Brian and Angelo are cautious regarding recent events in the Middle East. They believe the US Hegemon (with Israel’s conscious or objective assist) may be playing intricate and highly devious games to detonate a regionwide conflagration. Hamas, for one thing, may have been chosen by Israel and the US to play a divisive role among Palestinian factions, while maintaining the image of a fanatical anti-Israeli threat, eventually even allowing Oct. 7 attacks to permit Israel and the US to flatten Gaza, and provoke Iran and other members of the anti-Zionist/imperialist alliance to step in, thereby justifying, again a reasonable “response” that would destroy Iran and the forces resisting Western hegemony. In that sense, Oct 7 would be analogous to 9/11, a pretext to launch a vast imperialist campaign.
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GARLAND NIXON—Garland, outclassing Columbo, quickly sorts out the logic behind the moves of the perpetrators of the Moscow concert massacre, arguing that, far from being ISIS, as loudly proclaimed by the Western media, they are probably connected to Ukraine’s military and security services, currently chiefly under the command of Kyrylo Budanov. “Their escape route pointed toward Ukraine,” notes Garland. “Most criminals, after committing their crimes, tend to go home.”