Mark Sleboda analyses the recent betrayals by Erdogan, who’s busy making lovey-dovey with NATO and the US after promising loyalty to Russia and the emergent Eurasian multipolar world. Can this controversial and supremely opportunistic man pull it off again?
VASSAL STATES
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Washington’s REAL Policy on China – “Repairing Ties” is Theater Ahead of Sanctions, War
8 minutes readBRIAN BERLETIC’s extremely lucid, over a century-old analysis of America’s attitude and policy toward China. The record speaks for itself: Washington has always sought domination, and always used deception, naked force, or both. Right now, the Americans are busy building consensus among their vassals to push for an encirclement of China, and even war, with a view to stifling the nation’s economy and progress toward its well-deserved role as a leading global political and economic power.
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Tucker, free Gonzalo. Kramatorsk tragedy, fog of war. NYT, Surovikin knew. Stealing from Lavra.
5 minutes readALEX CHRISTOFOROU discusses the real implication of Moscow’s recent missile strike on Kramatorsk, which the Western media are quickly turning in a cold-blooded atrocity by the Russians, killing “innocent civilians”, but which in reality was an attack on a military command post populated by Ukrainian and foreign officials, including many mercenaries.
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COL. MACGREGOR rejects the idea that Prigozhin’s uprising was a coup, but believes his actions will have plenty of repercussions and that Russia will probably alter its current strategy and implement and far more aggressive approach toward Kiev.
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PUTIN ORDERS REALITY CHECK – NO UKRAINIANS LEFT ON THE BATTLEFIELD, NO SOVEREIGNTY IN KIEV
22 minutes readJOHN HELMER—“If [NATO Secretary-General] Mr Stoltenberg again says on behalf of NATO that they are against freezing the conflict in Ukraine,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on June 21, “this means that they want to fight. So let them fight. We are ready for that. We realised NATO’s true goals in Ukraine some time ago as their plans took shape over the years that followed the Maidan coup. Today, NATO is attempting to implement them…they are directly involved in the hybrid and hot war declared on Russia.”