EDITOR—A highly illuminating chat with Dmitri Zolotarev, a Russian scientist living in Siberia and brought up in the Soviet Union, who has many warm memories from a country that most Westerners have been indoctrinated to fear and hate. It’s clear the Soviet Union, one of the greatest and noblest experiments in human history, an experiment frequently poisoned by the unrelenting hostility of the capitalist world that unleashed all manner of weapons against it, from a 75-year boycott/blockade to outright wars (Nazi invasion, CIA-instigated Chechen wars, etc.) would have easily surpassed the West if this extraordinary campaign by the West had not been instituted.
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VANESSA BEELEY—I speak to geopolitical analyst and journalist Brian Berletic about Russia’s military and realpolitik strategy in Syria. While many people have a reactionary response to Israel’s persistent aggression against Syria – Russia, Syria, Iran and allies are studying the long-term strategy which is agreed upon with Damascus in the driving seat.
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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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SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER provides an exhaustive analysis of the situation in the Ukraine War at the moment Kiev continues to talk about an offensive—largely for p.r. reasons— and the West looks for an exit ramp or some viable manner to keep the conflict going indefinitely, without having to concede defeat.
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V. PUTIN—Basically, the territory called Ukraine was controlled from the very beginning by people who, led from the West, took the path of fighting not just with Russia, but creating an “anti-Russia” in this territory. They had to take into account people who lived in the southeast of Ukraine—these are voters, a large number of voters, they had to take into account. Let me also remind you that during the formation of independent Ukraine from the very beginning, from the first step, Ukraine declared itself a neutral state – the Declaration of Independence says so.
