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In recent years, the Eastern European countries that have become members of NATO have shown excessive zeal in promoting Atlanticism, becoming more pro-American than the old guard from Western Europe. The logic can be explained not only by the desire to please the patron from Washington, but also by Halford Mackinder’s famous geopolitical imperative – whoever controls Eastern Europe controls Eurasia, and whoever controls Eurasia controls the world.

Seymour Hersh, the famous investigative journalist, has slammed U.S.’s alleged involvement in bombing the Nord Stream gas lines as one of the “dumbest” decisions taken in years, warning that the move will have “horrific” consequences for Europeans and further undercut the already “supremely useless” NATO alliance.

Pendant ce temps, des nouvelles du cirque

Alors que l’Amérique est prête à payer pour que le dernier Ukrainien meure pour elle, le monde occidental parle d’autre chose : Harry Windsor a révélé le secret de famille. Le secret de famille était que Harry est un idiot, dont les ficelles sont tirées par une actrice américaine. Maintenant, le secret est révélé. Harry a lui-même révélé au monde entier qu’il est un idiot dont les ficelles sont tirées par une actrice américaine.

La SMP « Wagner » est une société militaire privée fondée, financée et dirigée par Evgueni Prigojine, homme d’affaires et aventurier quelque peu hors normes. Le fait que ce soit une société privée ne veut pas dire qu’elle soit sans foi ni loi – ni surtout sans patrie : la SMP Wagner travaille uniquement pour la Russie et non au plus offrant, elle a finalement contribué à évincer la France d’un certain nombre de pays africains ou proche-orientaux, de la Syrie au Mali, ce que les diplomates et la presse française ne digèrent pas, sûrs qu’ils étaient de leur mainmise sur la « françafrique ».

The Admiral Gorshkov is en route to a joint maritime exercise with South Africa and China off the KZN coast.

The controversial Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov sailed into Cape Town on Monday, and refuelled after a long voyage from Russia. The ship is en route to Durban and Richards Bay to participate in the joint maritime Exercise Mosi II with the South African and Chinese navies.

NATO Defence Ministers are meeting in Brussels this week (14-15 February 2023) to strengthen the Alliance’s deterrence and defence, and step up and sustain for Ukraine.

Within the coming days the cruel Russia-Ukraine War will enter its second year. Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 has triggered a series of global consequences not yet fully understood.[1] Despite intense scrutiny and speculation, no one really knows how it will turn out.[2] One hopes and prays that it will not lead to a nuclear exchange but even that dire eventuality cannot be discounted. Both Russia and Ukraine are supposedly preparing new armies aimed to deliver a knockout blow, both place hope in new weapons, both are desperately looking for more men, both have freed convicts to fight and you can find videos of forced conscription on both sides. Atrocities abound. Both sides search for allies and sources of support worldwide, no matter how marginal.