Two years ago Saturday Vladimir Putin explained why he went to war. He said he had no intention to control Ukraine and only wanted to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” it, after the U.S. had pushed Russia too far, wrote Joe Lauria.
The road to possible nuclear Armageddon has been littered with lost opportunities for peaceful co-existence with Russia and signposted by repeated U.S. provocations, but Ukraine’s neutrality remains key to everyone’s security, writes Edward Lozansky.
It’s the damnedest thing how you’re called a Kremlin agent for saying the war was provoked by NATO expansionism and it serves U.S. interests, even when NATO and U.S. officials openly admit the same thing, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
It is one thing that Russia knows it is de facto fighting NATO in Ukraine. But it is an entirely different matter that the war may dramatically escalate to war with Poland, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
So long as such patent intellectual and moral dishonesty permeates American thinking, how can there be a genuine U.S.-Russia dialogue with mutual respect? writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the Establishment hits back at journalists, like at CN, who try to tell it now.
Turkey’s presidential election produced no winner, forcing a May 28 runoff. It’s the most pivotal Turkish election in decades. Turkish journalist Aydogan Vatandas joins CN Live! to discuss the main issues at stake. 12pm EDT Thursday.
The German and French leaders have told Ukraine they must seek peace with Russia in exchange for a post-war defense pact, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
After the farcical, almost psychotic over-promotion, Robert Freeman says the only place for the Ukrainian president to go from here is down. And, that is surely coming. Soon.
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold say the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize missed a chance to help end a war so dangerous that Biden is warning of “nuclear Armageddon.”