“In the name of ‘democracy,’ the West has unrelentingly moved its military, political and economic power ever closer to post-Soviet Russia.” The East-West confrontation over Ukraine, which led to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea but long predated it, is potentially the worst international crisis in more than fifty years—and the most fateful. A negotiated resolution is […]
Domestic prices in Europe will go up by at least 50 percent, if it cuts supplies from Russia, according to Russia’s Energy Minister Alexandre Novak. “Moving away from pipeline transportation of natural gas, construction of terminals and deliveries of liquefied natural gas will lead to an increase in gas prices in Europe from the current […]
In his Kremlin defense of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond. Crimea, said Putin, “is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the […]
“Market Leninism” has become the biggest challenge to our society, writes John Avlon. And the problem with this alternative to Western governance is that it promises prosperity at the expense of individual freedom – while dismissing democracy as ineffective” So much for the end of history. Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall […]
The UN General Assembly on Thursday approved a resolution calling the Crimean referendum to secede from Ukraine invalid. The vote on the non-binding resolution was 100-11, with 58 countries abstaining, reported CNN. The vote is the latest indication of Russia’s isolation within the international community over its actions in Ukraine. Moscow formally annexed Ukraine’s southern […]
A Ukrainian ultra-nationalist leader was shot dead on Tuesday, in what officials describe as a special forces operation. Oleksandr Muzychko, better known as Sashko Bily, died in a shoot-out with police in a cafe in Rivne in western Ukraine, the interior ministry said, according to the BBC. He was a leader of Right Sector, a […]
Argentina, South America’s second largest country, has agreed to host Russian military bases on the South American continent. While the world — and the US — have been fixated on the events happening in Ukraine, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has been inking deals with leaders in Latin America. First discussed by Russian Defense Minister […]
The Cold War map of the world divided into two camps was simple and clear. The post-American world will be a much more ambiguous place. Instead of two global ideological alliances based around two world powers, there will be three post-ideological powers, no longer global in scope, and one worldwide ideological alliance. The United States, […]
If an escalation of Europe’s stand-off with Moscow over Ukraine results in economic sanctions, more than 6,000 German companies who do business with Russia would suffer catastrophic losses, Germany’s main trade body has warned. “About 6,200 German companies are engaged in Russia, some of them very strongly,” Anton Boerner, head of the BGA exporters’ body, […]
Russia Could Crush the Petrodollar Russia threatened to dump its U.S. treasuries if America imposed sanctions regarding Russia’s action in the Crimea. Zero Hedge argues that Russia has already done so. But veteran investor Jim Sinclair argues that Russia has a much scarier financial attack which Russia can use against the U.S. Specifically, Sinclair says that if Russia […]
