AMARYNTH—The Minsk agreements were a series of international agreements which sought to end the shelling into what was called at the time, the Donbas regions of the Ukraine, after these regions (Lugansk and Donetsk) declared that they would stand separate from the Ukraine and would not accept the 2014 Maidan color revolution or the overthrow of the then Ukrainian president Yanukovych. We have such vivid memories of the time, as Victoria Nuland carried cookies to the protestors at the Maidan, and we have her appointing a new leader for the Ukraine: “Yats is our man! F… the EU”. Today, the collective West has given this overthrow a name: The revolution of dignity, they are trying to call it.
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M K BHADRAKUMAR—The whole point is that the western commentariat largely forgets that Russia’s core agenda is not about territorial conquest — much as Ukraine is vital to Russian interests — but about NATO expansion. And that has not changed.
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ANDREI RAEVSKY—NATO is trying really hard to force the Russians into a “NATO schedule” and out of their planned schedule. An added beneficial side-effect from such “for optics only” strikes is to give the morons in Congress a rationale to put even more money into the US MIC.
As for forcing Russia to attack in suboptimal conditions, that won’t happen. Neither Putin, nor Shoigu, nor Gerasimov nor Surovikin are the types who will respond to hysterics with “for optics only” actions (just look at their faces, I mean it!). And this also goes for the entire General Staff.
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After a long period of trying diplomacy to achieve a just peace with the US bloc, which, for no reason except its perennial impulse to dominate all powerful sovereign nations like Russia, Moscow has finally accepted the reality that a full-blown war between the USA/NATO and the emerging Eurasian bloc, Russia, China, Iran, etc., is now inevitable. It is therefore making serious preparations for a war that (barring a nuclear exchange) may go on for generations. Contrary to constant Western propaganda, Russia does not wish and has never wished to invade and conquer Western Europe. It is basically the Anglo-Americans that have maneuvered for at least a century to destroy Russia as an independent world power. Now they are willing to sacrifice even their European vassals to attain that goal.
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Jimmy and his crew comment on the cynicism and shamelessness of US military contractors (“defense contractors”), profiting from the Ukraine war to the tune of billions. The invitation to a posh soiree at the Ukraine embassy in Washington is underwritten by Lockheed, Raytheon and other big weapons manufacturers. Their names appear on the official invitation, proving the integration of Ukraine, as a puppet state being used by the Deep State to enrich US corporations and advance its longstanding imperialist goals of global hegemony.
