Tag: Putin

Mike Whitney, The Man Who Sold Ukraine

James Fetzerblog

Mike Whitney Volodymyr Zelensky is the current President of Ukraine. He was elected in a landslide victory in 2019 on the promise of easing tensions with Russia and resolving the crisis in the breakaway republics in east Ukraine. He has made no attempt to keep his word on either issue. Instead, he has greatly exacerbated Ukraine’s internal crisis while relentlessly provoking Russia. . Zelensky has had numerous opportunities to smooth things over​ with Moscow and prevent the outbreak of hostilities. Instead, he has consistently made matters worse by blindly following Washington’s…

Paul Craig Roberts, “The Empire of Lies”

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Paul Craig Roberts [Editor’s note: Paul Craig Roberts, whom I admire, missed the boat when he asserts that Putin is a globalist. My take would be that, while he may have been a member of the World Economic Forum years ago, he has long since recognized it’s aspirations are inconsistent with nation-states and democratic republics. Those who doubt must read his “Empire of Lies” speech, which lays out explicitly why he had to conduct this “special military operation” into Ukraine. I regard Putin as the only true statesman astride the…

Paul Craig Roberts, On the Triumph of Evil

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Paul Craig Roberts The murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey is unprecedented in its audacity. The response from Washington and the Canadian government is to sell more weapons to Saudi Arabia, weapons that are being used by the Saudis in their destruction of the Yemeni population. The Russian response, if the report I saw was not fake news, is to sell the Saudis the S-400 air defense system.  What we can conclude from this is that armament profits take precedence over murder and genocide. Genocide is what is…