The West can better help Ukraine by learning from its mistakes with Georgia, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
Russia
The bizarre Ukrainian claim that Russia is seeking negotiations and even offering up a DMZ provides a window into the state of disarray.
Athens throws a decades-long good relationship with Moscow out the window and opens the door wide to US military and business interests.
Sweden reneged on its Türkiye NATO vote deal. This should be solvable except the West wants to punish Türkiye and Türkiye isn't up for that.
Anticipating the inevitable question: the Cyrillic thought balloon is a Russian vulgarism which translates loosely as “we are so screwed.”
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Mark Twain said: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” Ironically, he didn’t. The quotation should correctly be attributed to Jonathan Swift. The lie remains in high orbit. Even when the truth comes to light, it gets nothing close to the wide distribution...
The post How about Equal Time for the Truth? first appeared on Ted Rall's Rallblog.Dept of Defence briefing document insists facilities are non-military A briefing released by the US Department of Defence admits that the US military has been maintaining forty-six bio-facilities in Ukraine, while insisting that they and other laboratories it ‘supports’ in that country are purely for peaceful purposes. The presence of US-run bio-facilities in Ukraine formed […]
Britain joined Russia in blocking a UN Security Council statement condemning the Azeri blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh
A bloody attack on a Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest, close to the Orthodox Christmas, in a church....and sanctioned by the government.