THE WEST/ SINORUSSIA/IRAN/UKRAINE/NATO

GENNADY ZYUGANOV—We should all understand that a war of annihilation has been launched against us. Its aim is to dismember our country, to enslave the people and turn our lands into a zone of colonial plunder. It is fraught not only with large-scale losses: to lose in this situation means to disappear.

The present challenge is as fateful as the Time of Troubles in the 17th century, the Patriotic War of 1812, the foreign intervention in 1918-20, the clash with fascism during the Great Patriotic War and the treacherous destruction of the USSR. The USA and its Nato accomplices have set about to multiply their vicious achievements of the ‘wild 90s’.

PEPE ESCOBAR—This naval force is obviously not there to launch WWIII. Martyanov explains that “while both can strike all of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and Canada, they are there not for that reason. God forbid if it comes to real WWIII there are plenty of Bulavas, Avangards, Sarmats and Yarses to deal with this horrifying business. No, both Gorshkov and Kazan are there to show that they can reach any combat ship or strategic sea lift vessel carrying any military combat set from North America to Europe in case of some nutjob deciding to try to survive a conventional war with Russia in 404.”

GARLAND NIXON—Garland chronicles the disintegration of the Washington created and supported Neonazi regime in Kiev after an Obama-approved coup in 2014, how the US Neocons have seen their dreams of destroying Russia smashed by Moscow’s surprising military resiliency, and how the longer this war lasts without a real resolution, the more dangerous for the world, which now stands close to the nuclear abyss. 

RON UNZ—As everyone knows, the Western mainstream media has spent more than two years demonizing Russia and its president following the February 2022 outbreak of the Ukraine war, with Putin having become the most reviled world leader since Adolf Hitler more than three generations ago. And although Russia’s military attack only came after many years of the most extreme military and political provocations by America and its NATO allies, our astonishingly dishonest media outlets have uniformly plastered the word “unprovoked” on all their accounts of the conflict.

BILLY BOB—Despite Mearsheimer’s eminent reputation, the tremendous respect which he commands, and his accurate and scathing indictment of Western foreign policy, his framework is surprisingly shallow and lacking in even a basic grasp of “how the world actually works”.  Why do I say this and what do I mean?  For starters, Mearsheimer is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who seemingly has never even heard of the concept of class.  There are innumerable instances throughout history of seemingly inexplicable behavior that the lens of liberalism is incapable of explaining.  Only when one adopts the lens of oppositional class interests and class struggle does history even begin to make any sense.  The same is true regarding contemporary reality.