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.
RUSSIAN MIGHT
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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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Kiev’s drones penetrate Moscow’s air defenses: Putin’s response
16 minutes readV. 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.
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EDITOR’S NOTE—Probably the West’s longstanding hostility, disdain for, and ultimately isolation of Russia have contributed to the country’s natural drift to autarky, and stimulated her sons’ and daughters’ desire to make the motherland proud and independent. Further, in many cases where Russian creativity in the pro-Communist period could have also secured an honor position for the country, the plans were thwarted by the nation’s relatively small capital markets and the dead weight of a czarist bureaucracy that was not too sympathetic to innovations.
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Address by the President of the Russian Federation (2.21.23)
103 minutes readPRES. PUTIN—The Western elite makes no secret of their goal, which is, I quote, “Russia’s strategic defeat.” What does this mean to us? This means they plan to finish us once and for all. In other words, they plan to grow a local conflict into a global confrontation. This is how we understand it and we will respond accordingly, because this represents an existential threat to our country.