Scott Ritter joins Part 2 of The World This Week from St. Petersburg where he attended the International Economic Forum amid drone attacks on the city from Ukraine. Watch the replay.
In St. Petersburg this week, the Russian president spoke frankly about Ukraine, NATO and the course of the war: there’s no end in sight. With Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Watch the replay.
NATO’s Ukraine proxy war seeks to weaken Russia and topple Putin. To launch an economic, information and ground war, NATO needed Russia to invade. Now it needs Russia to attack a NATO nation to justify direct war. Watch the replay.
WARNING TO THE PRESIDENT: U.S.-driven “regime collapse” and imposition of a government of our choosing will fail badly. The same people who keep ’57 Chevrolets on the road with a coat hanger will wreak havoc against a foreign-imposed regime.
In a second open letter in Berliner Zeitung, the author tells the German chancellor that diplomacy with Russia is urgent to avoid a wider war in Europe.
TRANSCRIPT ADDED: In an interview in Berlin, German journalist Patrik Babb explains the rise of the new German militarism and why Germany is so obedient to the U.S.
Ray McGovern discusses the immediate threat to Cuba in the context of the history of U.S. hostility to the Caribbean island stretching back to his earliest days at the C.I.A. in 1963, just months after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
After their summit in Beijing on Wednesday, the Russian and Chinese presidents issued the following communiqué, declaring the failure of neocolonial hegemony and the emergence of a new era of international relations.