The fatal mistake committed by Brussels in 2014 was to force Kiev to make an impossible choice between Europe and Russia.
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Why Russia Is Ready to Check-Mate the U.S. and Its Western Empire
The Western empire-builders are weakened and exposed in the eyes of their own populations and thus are disarmed politically to pursue confrontation.
Continue reading Why Russia Is Ready to Check-Mate the U.S. and Its Western EmpireThe Red Hill Disaster: Two Centuries of Colonialism
In November, a huge underground naval fuel storage facility at Red Hill near Honolulu burst, leaking 14,000 gallons of jet fuel, contaminating the water supply, poisoning scores of people and driving thousands of Hawaiian families from their homes.
Continue reading The Red Hill Disaster: Two Centuries of ColonialismThe NATOstan Clown Show
The charade has come to a point that – diplomatically – is quite unprecedented: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lost his Taoist patience.
Continue reading The NATOstan Clown ShowThe Military and Intelligence Origins of Public Health
In an address to a conference on the Covid-19 crisis held in Budapest, Hungary this past August Robert Kennedy gave a preview of his research results to the participants. His “Historical and Legal Perspectives of the Pandemic” takes an unusually wide view of the context in which the past 18 months unfolded.
Continue reading The Military and Intelligence Origins of Public HealthWith 60 Million Americans Going Hungry, the United States Needs to Make Peace Not War
The United States cannot afford to maintain a war economy. Such a hyper-militarized economy is inciting dangerous tensions between nuclear powers, as well as eroding the very material foundations of American society.
Continue reading With 60 Million Americans Going Hungry, the United States Needs to Make Peace Not WarThe Living Dead Pax Americana
Pax Americana was always a minor character in a zombie apocalypse flick.
Continue reading The Living Dead Pax AmericanaUS Encircling China on Multiple New Cold War Fronts
US-Australia nuclear submarine deal is part of a wider alliance-based strategy to counter and contain China’s rise and ambitions.
Continue reading US Encircling China on Multiple New Cold War FrontsUS Betrayal Of France Over Nuclear Subs for Au Signals Huge Geopolitical Shift in US Strategy
In its growing confrontation with China, a ruthless Washington has demonstrated that what matters to it now is not Europe, but the Indo-Pacific region. This is where the new Cold War is to be fought.
Continue reading US Betrayal Of France Over Nuclear Subs for Au Signals Huge Geopolitical Shift in US StrategyNo, the Deep State Was Never Defeated on its War on Terror, Not Yet
The US military may have been unsuccessful in their 20-year aggressive efforts against the real patriots in Afghanistan, but it doesn’t mean that those who decided to go to war are suffering the same fate. The latter were merrymaking all the way to the bank, as the “smart bombs” were flying with “surgical precision” across the desert of the Middle East, just for the optical and acoustic joy they bring, and the need to reduce existing inventory of aging war materiel.
Continue reading No, the Deep State Was Never Defeated on its War on Terror, Not Yet90 Retired Generals and Admirals Call for Austin and Milley to Resign Immediately
Ninety retired military generals and admirals are demanding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to resign.
Continue reading 90 Retired Generals and Admirals Call for Austin and Milley to Resign ImmediatelyUS reputation is in tatters, it’s time to bring those responsible for Afghanistan disaster to account
Twenty years of US war in Afghanistan draws to a close at the stroke of midnight on August 31. There will be plenty of time to dissect the root causes of failure. What is needed now is accountability for the disastrous endgame.
Continue reading US reputation is in tatters, it’s time to bring those responsible for Afghanistan disaster to accountAfghanistan is the UK’s Biggest Military Humiliation Since Suez
Anthony Eden was forced out of Downing Street over the military debacle in Egypt 65 years ago, so will Boris Johnson lose his premiership over this equally embarrassing rout? He should…
Continue reading Afghanistan is the UK’s Biggest Military Humiliation Since SuezWill The Next Us Military Airlift Be Out of Washington DC as The Empire Implodes
Reminiscent of the US airlift out of Saigon during the Vietnam War, this week’s evacuation of the US embassy in Kabul portends bad times for the United States, which is beleaguered by much more than just military dysfunction.
Continue reading Will The Next Us Military Airlift Be Out of Washington DC as The Empire ImplodesSaigon 2.0: U.S. Offering Loans to its Citizen to Flee Afghanistan
The U.S. State Department and Pentagon are doing it again — flee from a country they have raided for decades, leaving behind civilian assets to fight for their own survival, as the Talibans sweep the capital Kabul with lightning speed, forcing the West appointed president Ashraf Ghani to flee the country much earlier yesterday.
Continue reading Saigon 2.0: U.S. Offering Loans to its Citizen to Flee AfghanistanTop National Security Reporters Linked to U.S. Government
Imagine a country where there’s no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans would think of China, Russia or North Korea, but it’s a perfect description of the United States today. And here in Washington, the think tank inside this nondescript building – Center For A New American Security (CNAS) – is the clearest example of just that.
Continue reading Top National Security Reporters Linked to U.S. GovernmentCiting Nazi Germany as Model, U.S. Military Chief Hails New NATO Command
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Norfolk, Virginia on July 15 to mark the second NATO command in America achieving full operational capability. NATO’s Joint Force Command – Norfolk (JFC-Norfolk ) joined NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) in the same city as the only NATO commands outside Europe.
Continue reading Citing Nazi Germany as Model, U.S. Military Chief Hails New NATO CommandNATO Practices Sinking Russian Submarines in the Arctic
NATO began its annual Dynamic Mongoose anti-submarine warfare exercise on June 28 off the coast of Norway in what the military bloc deems the High North: the Arctic region, which it has identified as its domain since 2009. (As it has the Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea.)
The code name for the war games may seem puzzling; there’s a noticeable incongruity with the name of an animal primarily associated with South Asia and Africa used for maneuvers on the top of the world. It’s less baffling when one recalls the mongoose is used to kill snakes. Russian submarines are the snakes.
This year’s iteration includes warships, warplanes and submarines from NATO member states Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Norway and the U.S. Five of those states – Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and the U.S. – are Arctic coastal nations. The others are Finland and Sweden, both NATO Enhanced Opportunities Partners, and Russia. Isolated Russia. Targeted Russia.
Two submarines, six military vessels and eight aircraft are involved.
The Russian submarine fleet is that part of its nuclear triad of delivery systems least vulnerable to a first-strike attack. Missile silos and aircraft on the ground could be destroyed within hours of such an attack. Submarines, then, are Russia’s last line of defense, the only retaliatory force left and as such its main deterrent force.
Neutralizing Russia’s submarines, first or soon in a first strike, would render the nation defenseless in a strategic context. NATO knows that. That’s why it conducts Dynamic Mongoose annually.
NATO’s Allied Command Operations web site quotes the commander of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 describing the exercise:
“By exercising and validating our anti-submarine warfare capabilities, tactics, techniques and procedures during Dynamic Mongoose 21, NATO will be better prepared to counter, and if necessary, defeat a subsurface threat during an emerging crisis or conflict….I am confident that collectively we will be able to operate effectively in a sub-surface threat environment, where joint warfighting proficiency with submarines, maritime helicopters and maritime patrol aircraft is essential to mission success.”
Shorn of the excess verbiage, the commander was talking about anti-submarine warfare. Nothing else.
The deputy commander of NATO’s Allied Maritime Command added to the above the assertion that “the airbases provided by three Allied Nations [Britain, Iceland and Norway] this year will let us showcase how capable NATO is, in terms of conducting large scale anti-submarine warfare operations in the North Atlantic….”
The NATO press release on the drills also speaks of strengthening NATO interoperability and of submarines taking turns “hunting and being hunted, closely coordinating their efforts with the air and surface participants.”
The Arctic Ocean, especially under the polar ice cap, used to be the final redoubt of Russian strategic capabilities. NATO is determined to eliminate that remaining refuge.
I Saw Rumsfeld Deliberately Caused the Deaths of U.S. Troops for Personal Gain
In my time as a US intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector, I was twice privy to the former US defense secretary’s MO: to manufacture and manipulate ‘intelligence’ so as to start wars. The Devil will need to watch his back.
Continue reading I Saw Rumsfeld Deliberately Caused the Deaths of U.S. Troops for Personal GainNATO-philes Demand Obedience to International Treaties While Running Roughshod Over Natural Law
Modern international law is enshrined in certain legal principles outlined in the UN Charter which itself is premised on the right of all nations to full sovereignty and non-interference.
Continue reading NATO-philes Demand Obedience to International Treaties While Running Roughshod Over Natural LawHow the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
AFGHANISTAN — The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year saw Afghan opium poppy cultivation grow by over a third while counter-narcotics operations dropped off a cliff.
Continue reading How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-StateWar… It’s Just a Shot Away as Brits Provoke Russia
It sounds almost incredible that a war situation was only a shot away in such a grim face-off between NATO member Britain and Russia.
Continue reading War… It’s Just a Shot Away as Brits Provoke Russia1958 Plan to Destroy Taiwan is Still Very Much Alive in the Pentagon
The 1958 planned destruction of Taiwan is still the key to the “humanitarian invasion” of China, that’s the mindset of the Pentagon war planners even today. The 90-year-old Pentagon Papers leaker details top secret plans in 1958 to destroy Taiwan and warns that similar discussions are going on in the Pentagon today.
Continue reading 1958 Plan to Destroy Taiwan is Still Very Much Alive in the PentagonNuclear Climate Change: Washington Heats Things Up
On April 29 Tom Engelhardt, a respected commentator on world affairs, published a piece examining America’s everlasting wars and concluded “The question that Americans seldom even think to ask is this: What if the U.S. were to begin to dismantle its empire of bases, repurpose so many of those militarized taxpayer dollars to our domestic needs, abandon this
Continue reading Nuclear Climate Change: Washington Heats Things UpWest Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military Artificial Intelligence
In its preparation for great power competition, the US military is modernizing its artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and testing them in West Africa.
Continue reading West Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military Artificial IntelligenceSuspects in Attempted Coup in Belarus Plead Guilty, Provide Plot Details
Belarus is much closer to Moscow than Ukraine, so that its capture by US-funded terror groups is grossly detrimental to Russian Federation’s security.
Continue reading Suspects in Attempted Coup in Belarus Plead Guilty, Provide Plot DetailsGermans, Japanese and Marylanders are Poisoned by the U.S. Military
PFAS in fire-fighting foams used on basFes worldwide are contaminating the environment and endangering public health. The Pentagon denies wrongdoing.
Continue reading Germans, Japanese and Marylanders are Poisoned by the U.S. MilitaryThe Yankees are Coming Home: The Taliban Won. Get Over It
American soldiers can still win wars, but it has to be a real war where there is something genuine at stake, like protecting one’s home and family.
Continue reading The Yankees are Coming Home: The Taliban Won. Get Over ItNATO Ending War in Ukraine Like Arsonist Putting Out Fire
The indulgence and interference in Ukraine by the Americans and their NATO allies has been criminally reckless and is leading to a slow, agonizing scorched-earth conflict. The arsonists need to leave. Or Russia will have to act.
Continue reading NATO Ending War in Ukraine Like Arsonist Putting Out FireUS, Lobbyists and Arm Dealers Scramble to Reposition Amid Impending Saudi Defeat in Yemen
WASHINGTON — In his last months in office, former President Donald Trump gave American defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Reaper drone manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems billions in projected earnings through a controversial $23 billion arms deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a deal now “under review” by the Biden administration.
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