The disconnect between the Western and Russian narratives in the current conflict could prove fatal to the world, writes Scott Ritter.
Putin’s Nuclear Threat
Category: Russia
WATCH: ‘The War in Ukraine’
In 2015 and 2017, the Watchdog Media Institute released a 22-part video series on Maidan and Kiev’s war on ethnic Russians. Watch the summary 25-minute film and the entire series here.
ROBERT PARRY: The Mess That Nuland Made
Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s “regime change” in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences, wrote Robert Parry on July 13, 2015.
Chris Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold
After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. The military-industrial complex would not allow such sanity to prevail.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Russia Hits Back’
The program looks at Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, its causes, its aims, and its likely aftermaths with Alexander Mercouris, Mark Sleboda, Scott Ritter and Tony Kevin.
Caitlin Johnstone: 12 Thoughts on Ukraine
The U.S. power alliance has a choice between escalating aggressions against Russia to world-threatening levels or doing what anti-imperialists have been begging them to do for years and pursue detente.
Why Putin Went to War
Russia says it has no intentions of controlling Ukraine and its military operation is only to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine in an action taken after 30 years of the U.S. pushing Russia too far, writes Joe Lauria.
WATCH: UN Security Council Meets as Russian Operation Begins
The U.N. Security Council again met in emergency session on Wednesday night in New York as Russia began its military operation in Ukraine. Watch the entire session here.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
Bear baiting was long ago banned as inhumane. Yet today, a version is being practiced every day against whole nations on a gigantic international scale.
Ukraine Shrinks Again
Tony Kevin says Putin was desperate for something other than this lose-lose outcome for both East and West.