Un bon moyen d’empêcher que la guerre en Ukraine soit comprise est d’en supprimer le contexte historique.
La version caricaturale fait débuter le conflit le 24 février 2022, lorsque Vladimir Poutine s’est réveillé ce matin-là en décidant d’envahir l’Ukraine.
Zelensky was triggered after realizing that the Trump Administration wants to coerce him into peace with Putin and won’t be manipulated into prolonging, let alone escalating, the conflict after signing their rare earth minerals deal like he somehow expected that they would.
Friday’s spectacle in the Oval Office will forever be remembered as one of the most epic failures that any foreign leaders has made after Zelensky delusionally thought that that he could disrespect Vice President Vance on live TV in front of Trump without any consequences while being a guest in their country. Readers can watch the full recording here, which shows Zelensky aggressively reacting to Vance’s benign comment about prioritizing diplomacy with Putin over the prior administration’s failed tough talk.
In his sudden haste to see Ukraine repay the US for the billions of dollars appropriated by Congress to the country in its war against Russian aggression, Donald Trump, aka “Mr. Art of the Deal,” has deployed his tactless “Trumplomacy” with its attendant extortive strongarm tactics to gain access to critical minerals that Ukraine has in abundance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would allow his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump access to rare earth metals in Ukraine’s annexed regions as part of a future deal.
United States opposition to a European-drafted United Nations resolution that condemned Moscow’s full-scale invasion has sparked anger on both sides of the Atlantic.
At the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, the U.S. joined Russia and Moscow’s closest ally Belarus, as well as North Korea, in opposing a resolution condemning Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
Eurasianist philosopher Alexander Dugin wants to change how political science is taught across the humanities in Russian higher education. Meduza has obtained access to a 240-page lecture series on political science, a 76-page teaching concept, and a shorter presentation for Russia’s Science Ministry — all prepared by Dugin’s team at the Ivan Ilyin Higher Political School at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Dugin and his colleagues warn that “Americacentrism” currently dominates Russian political science and must be “overcome.”
The Kremlin’s most basic task right now is to keep Washington in a constructive mindset toward Russia. That in itself is already facilitating the achievement of Putin’s goals in Ukraine.
Three weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration, he had a much-anticipated phone call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Both sides have kept a diplomatic silence over who initiated the call, but the very fact that it took place and lasted almost an hour and a half looks like a major win for the Russian leader. Effectively, the long-awaited negotiations between Moscow and Washington on the fate of Ukraine have been launched in the format that best suits Putin.
Just after noon on January 17, 2023, Privat Damabakizi, 35, and his wife were working in their farm field in a tiny Central African Republic settlement near the border with Cameroon when his brother, Alvin, called him.
Seven armed men wearing camouflage uniforms had just driven up in pickup trucks at Damabakizi’s home in Bouar, a town about 7 kilometers away from the field.
Whatever one may think about its lack of morality, it was coldly pragmatic and wasn’t responsible for sparking World War II, just for temporarily putting off what proved to be its most deadly phase in Europe.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (MRP) is back in the news after President Putin explained to Tucker Carlson how interwar Polish diplomacy made World War II inevitable. Many on social media reacted by bringing up that agreement and arguing that it was responsible for Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Without their secret deal to divide Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) into spheres of influence, they argue, he wouldn’t have been emboldened into starting World War II. The reality, however, is altogether different.