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20.01.2025 How the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence secretly forged a deep partnership

Kondratyuk's visit to Washington was part of a remarkable story: how since 2014 the CIA and Ukraine's intelligence services secretly forged a deep partnership, transforming them from former Cold War enemies into one of the U.S. agency's most trusted partners.

07.11.2024 The thought of a Trump presidency is eating me alive

I look the way people do outside the intensive care unit, as they wait to learn whether a friend will survive. Our friend, in this case, is democracy

05.11.2024 North Korean troops expected to engage Ukrainians within days as allies flounder

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says North Korean soldiers are expected to deploy in combat against Ukrainians in the coming days, while American Deputy UN Ambassador Robert Wood said 8,000 of Pyongyang’s soldiers are in the Kursk region, which Ukraine has partially occupied.

29.10.2024 Nato says North Korean troops in Russia threaten European security

The US defense department on Monday confirmed a 10,000-strong deployment of North Korean troops in Russia, after previously saying it was still reviewing information on how many of the nation’s soldiers had been sent to fight on the Ukrainian front.

13.08.2024 Pro-Israel G7 ambos boycott Japan A-bomb ceremony

Geopolitics trump peace politics as G7 diplomats eschew Nagasaki atomic bomb commemoration to protest Israel’s exclusion. Ambassadors to Japan from the other G7 nations – the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France and Italy – refused to attend Friday’s (August 9) peace ceremony in Nagasaki because the Israeli ambassador had not been invited. The only other countries not invited were Russia and Belarus.

17.07.2024 Intelligence: The god that failed

If the assimilation by the ruling establishment of information that comes from parallel or unofficial sources or does not conform to the prevailing opinion is an issue in open societies, the problem is compounded tenfold when a one-party system or a one-man rule prevails.

16.07.2024 It’s bad to be an outcast as a winner, but it’s worse to be an outcast as a loser.

“It’s bad to be an outcast as a winner, but it’s worse to be an outcast as a loser,” one Russian oligarch, who had criticized the war before but now seems to understand it, told me. (He, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity, to protect his safety.) The oligarch said that everything in Russia has changed: attitudes toward Putin, views of Ukraine, and outlooks on the West. “We must win this war,” he told me. “Otherwise, they won’t allow us to live. And, of course, Russia would collapse.”

24.05.2024 The A320neo and Boeing 737NG families currently make up the primary narrow-body civil aircraft fleet in the Russian Federation.

S7 Technics confirmed that its engineers have already completed 12 overhauls of CFM56-5B’s and 7B’s hot sections in the company’s workshop at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow.

03.05.2024 Ukraine is on the brink, says a senior general

An interview with Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence. Right now, both sides are jockeying for the “the most favourable position” ahead of potential talks. But meaningful negotiations can begin only in the second half of 2025 at the earliest, he guesses.

17.04.2024 Ukraine is heading for defeat

Morale among troops is grim, ground down by relentless bombardment, a lack of advanced weapons, and losses on the battlefield. In cities hundreds of miles away from the front, the crowds of young men who lined up to join the army in the war’s early months have disappeared. Nowadays, eligible would-be recruits dodge the draft and spend their afternoons in nightclubs instead. Many have left the country altogether.

07.04.2024 America has no Ukraine Plan B except more war

US foreign policy establishment blindly intent on beating Russia on the battlefield and crushing its economy. Neither will happen

17.03.2024 What Russia’s momentum in Ukraine means for the war in 2024. Equipment losses in Russia’s war on Ukraine mount.

Russia is gaining momentum in its assault on Ukraine amid stalled Western aid, making the coming months critical to the direction of conflict. In a worst-case scenario, parts of Kyiv’s front line could be at risk of collapse.

As Russia’s losses in its war on Ukraine continue to grow, the IISS assess how long Moscow can sustain its current rate of equipment attrition

04.03.2024 Nazi rescue of Mussolini a US model for Zelensky

US Pentagon is no doubt gaming out rescue plans should Zelensky’s unravelling and unpopular government fully collapse

28.02.2024 The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin

For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia.

21.02.2024 Anti-Ukraine rhetoric has saturated right-wing media. Now it is helping to deliver actual war victories to Putin

Some 5,000 miles away from a paralyzed Washington, Ukraine was forced to surrender the city of Avdiivka to Russian forces, handing Putin one of his most monumental triumphs in months.“It is a pivotal moment, where both Russian advances and Western atrophy threaten to transform the biggest land war in Europe since the 1940s.”

28.01.2024 Russian Military Thought and Doctrine Related to Non-strategic Nuclear Weapons: Change and Continuity

Russian nuclear doctrine, especially regarding its large stockpile of non-strategic nuclear weapons, has become one of the most pressing issues in Euro-Atlantic security. This report aims to build an understanding of Russia’s strategic nuclear weapons doctrine through empirical research, including by examining the continuities and discontinuities in doctrine across time, through the Cold War, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, to Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and in Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine.

08.01.2024 Israel's war on Gaza encapsulates the entire history of European colonialism

Palestinian resistance must always be situated within the history of anti-colonial struggle just as Israel’s genocidal war should be recognised as a continuation of this colonial lineage/

The reason Zionists have the full support of European and US leaders is because the genocidal drive to 'exterminate all the brutes' is embedded deep in their psyches

25.12.2023 TO UNDERSTAND THE TORONTO SUN’S ANTI-UKRAINE ANTI-SEMITIC CARTOON, YOU NEED TO KNOW WHO RUNS/OWNS THE TORONTO SUN

06.12.2023 In Ukraine, a war of incremental gains as counteroffensive stalls. Nothing went as planned.

Nothing went as planned.

The Ukrainian troops had expected minefields but were blindsided by the density. The ground was carpeted with explosives, so many that some were buried in stacks. The soldiers had been trained to drive their Bradleys at a facility in Germany, on smooth terrain. But on the mushy soil of the Zaporizhzhia region, in the deafening noise of battle, they struggled to steer through the narrow lanes cleared of mines by advance units.

04.11.2023 ‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight

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