Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-ukraine-war-anthologies-35-june-1.html
What’s at stake in all of OMNI’s anthologies?
“It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and restrain the violence of the state. It is cheap and easy to deplore the crimes of others, while dismissing or justifying our own. An honest person will choose a different course.” Noam Chomsky
Beginning in 2014, with the intention to follow the Motto of the University of Arkansas—To advance the truth–, I began gathering into anthologies (at first labeled newsletters) correctives to the official justifications for the Ukraine War.
OMNI RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #1 (RUSSIA AND UKRAINE). March 23, 2014. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/03/russia-ukraine-newsletter-1.html
OMNI RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #2 (AND UKRAINE). April 10, 2014. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/04/russiaukraine-newsletter-2.html
That is, a decade of conflict between Russian-speaking eastern and western Ukraine led to civil war in 2014 following a coup overthrowing the elected president. Russia invaded Ukraine eight years later in February 24, 2022. This is the date that Ukraine, the US, and NATO use to date the beginning of the war to justify blaming Russia, and their combined propaganda machine so far has been able to convince many people of the falsehoods.
If you ask, but what can I do? If you believe that knowledge is essential to rational decision-making thenforward my anthologies not just to friends but to organizations that ought to be well-informed, and ask them to try to influence national policy to follow truth and peace. Or select one of the best essays to forward (I usually place the more comprehensive essays near the beginning of each anthology). As the UN Charter teaches, war is an unimaginable horror, the worst atrocity, but we must try to imagine it if we are to leave our copium sandboxes.
CONTENTS Ukraine War Anthology #35 (Fifty articles and books demonstrate the copiousness of opposition to US empire, over 500 in the 35 anthologies, in reality a small sample )
WAR
Gordon Hahn. Ukraine Over the Edge. 2018.
Chris Hedges.
“Chris Hedges Report.” March 11, 2023.
VIDEO. “ Professor Stephen F. Cohen. “Ukraine vs. Russia – History & Causes.” 2024.
Martin Sieff: “How the US and Its Allies Created the Ukraine Crisis…” 2024.
Wolfgang Munchau. “Europe’s reckless bid for victory.” 2025.Gordon hahn. “A River Runs Through the End of the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War.”
Gordon Hahn. “The Empty Tank: Is Demise of the Ukrainian Army Near?”
PEACE
Paul Robinson. “ Ending the War in Ukraine: Analysis and Recommendations.”
Sachs and Ritter. “Peace Negotiations, What We Need to Know.”
Jeffrey Sachs. “Negotiating Lasting Peace in Ukraine.”
Scott Ritter. “The Odessa Moment.”
Prabir Purkayastha. “Biggest threat from Ukraine war: Last Nuclear Agreement suspended.”
Joe Lauria. “Trump Says No To ‘Foolish’ US Missile Attacks On Russia”
Gordon Hahn. “First steps toward ending the war in Ukraine.
Axios. “Trump says he wants to meet Putin soon to discuss a Ukraine peace deal.”
Ed Lozansky. “Trump’s Mixed Feelings Team.”
Insider: “Trump’s advisors are laying out plans on how to end the war in Ukraine.”
VIDEO. Col. Douglas Macgregor. “We Have No Leverage.”
Vijay Prashad. “All wars end in negotiations. So will the war in Ukraine.”
Ted Galen Carpenter. “Ending the Second Cold War.”
Joe Lauria. “On Neo-Nazi Influence In Ukraine.”
Ilya Tsukanov. “Odessa Massacre 10 Years On: Neo-Nazis Drowned The City In Blood.”
Tara Copp. “US to Send Near-$1B in Arms for Long-term Use to Ukraine.”
James W. Carden. “How the Neocons Won the Transition.”
Anatol Lieven. “Trump’s threat to walk away leaves Ukraine exposed.”
Robert Skidelsky. “Why Is the UK So Invested in the Russia–Ukraine War?”
VIDEO: Nicolai N. Petro. “The future of Russia and Ukraine as the war draws to a close…”
James W. Carden. “A Question of Incitement? “
Ron Ridenour. “Journalist Randy Credico has been placed on Ukrainian terrorist ‘kill-list’ via CIA project website.”
Atilio Borón. “Habermas and the war in Ukraine.”
Uriel Araujo. “Popular Revolt Looming in Ukraine? Zelensky’s Battle Over Death Numbers Speaks for Itself.”
Joe Lauria. “US Bill Would Reverse ATACMS Order.”
Moon of Alabama. “To The Last Ukrainian.”
VIDEO. “State Department Asked About Any Potential Talks To End War In Ukraine Before Biden Leaves Office.”
Andrew Napolitano. “A Brief History of Free Speech in America.”
Christopher Caldwell. “The Imminent Russia-US War.”
Robert Hackett. “The Economist and the War in Ukraine.” Ted Snider. “The Cost of Kursk.”
George Beebe. “The Hazards of Ukraine’s Incursion into Russia.”
Yuri Pushchaev: The Philosophy of the Ones Who Left: An Experiment in Intellectual Autism.
“CHRIS HEDGES INTERVIEWS SEYMOUR HERSH ON NORD STREAM PIPELINES AND US PRESS FAILURE.”
Max Blumenthal. “New evidence from Nord Stream underwater expedition refutes official claims.”
David Starr. “ Profiting Off of Death and Suffering is the American Way.”
Moon of Alabama. “‘Western’ Media Spread Copium To Prolong The War In Ukraine”
The Chris Hedges Report . “They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.”
Ambrose Sylvan. “Western media has falsely presented the Donbas’ ‘Drive For Autonomy’ as being instigated by Moscow.”
Jessica Corbett.
“Tensions in Ukraine Show Why ‘Nuclear Power Is the Most Dangerous Way to Boil Water’.”
Reuters. “Putin wants to restart nuclear arms cuts talks, Kremlin says after Trump comment.”
TEXTS
HISTORY
THE WAR CONTINUES: When, Where, and Why Did It Begin?
Gordon Hahn. Ukraine Over the Edge. McFarland, 2018. 368.
Publisher’s description: The Ukrainian crisis that dominated headlines in fall 2013 was decades in the making. Two great schisms shaped events: one within Ukraine, its western and southeastern parts divided along cultural and political lines; the other was driven by geopolitical factors. Competition between Russia and the West exacerbated Ukraine’s divisions. This study focuses on the historical background and complex causality of the crisis, from the rise of mass demonstrations on Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) to the making of the post-revolt regime. In the context of a “new cold war,” the author sheds light on the role of radical Ukrainian nationalists and neofascists in the February 2014 snipers’ massacre, the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, and Russia’s seizure of Crimea and involvement in the civil war in the eastern region of Donbass.
“Ukraine’s 2013-2014 revolution, its civil war, and Russia’s annexation of the Crimea have been succeeded by newer crises, but political analyst Hahn uses detailed reportage and geopolitical theory to argue for their long-term significance, presenting Ukraine as a troubling turning point in Russo-American relations and a case study of how democratization efforts can go awry…. with Russia atop American headlines to an extent not seen since the end of the Cold War, [this book] will be a strong addition to global studies collections”—Booklist
“It was not only Ukraine that went over the edge in 2014, but the whole European security system disintegrated, while a ‘new cold war’ chills relations between the great powers. In this masterful study, Gordon Hahn examines how Ukraine’s internal divisions combined with external lines of fragmentation to create an explosive mix, which in turn intensified domestic conflicts. The result is an internationalized civil conflict, with catastrophic consequences for Ukraine and the world. Hahn is one of the few scholars with the knowledge and discernment to make sense of it all. His impressively well-researched and well-written book is essential reading.”—Richard Sakwa, University of Kent
“This impressively researched and strongly argued book is an essential corrective to the myths that have been generated concerning the crisis in Ukraine, and an essential warning against a continuation of the frivolous and dangerous policies of regime change adopted by the West after the end of the Cold War.”—Anatol Lieven, Professor, Georgetown University in Qatar and author of Ukraine and Russia, A Fraternal Rivalry
“Ukraine Over the Edge is a rigorous analysis of the cultural, historical, and intellectual origins of the Ukrainian crisis. While stressing that blame for the latest phase of this crisis is shared all around, Hahn traces its domestic origins to the militancy of the opposition to president Yanukovych, and its international origins to NATO expansion, which he regards as militarized democracy-promotion. The result is both a sophisticated, multilevel analysis of how and why Ukraine emerged as the key hotspot in East-West relations, and an indispensable guide for those wishing to understand the origins of the New Cold War.”—Nicolai N. Petro, Silvia-Chandley Professor of Peace Studies and Nonviolence, University of Rhode Island
[High praise for this apparently reliable history, which I am late to anthologize. -Dick]
“Chris Hedges Report.” March 11, 2023.
Ukraine is a pawn for militarists intent on degrading Russia and ultimately China in a self-defeating quest to ensure U.S. global hegemony. The end of this war, like most proxy wars, will be ugly.
There are many ways for a state to project power and weaken adversaries, but proxy wars are one of the most cynical. Proxy wars devour the countries they purport to defend. They entice nations or insurgents to fight for geopolitical goals that are ultimately not in their interest. The war in Ukraine has little to do with Ukrainian freedom and a lot to do with degrading the Russian military and weakening Vladimir Putin’s grip on power. And when Ukraine looks headed for defeat, or the war reaches a stalemate, Ukraine will be sacrificed like many other states, in what one of the founding members of the CIA, Miles Copeland Jr., referred to as the “Game of Nations” and “the amorality of power politics.”. . . . For Hedges’ full analysis of proxy wars click on the title.
The arming of Ukraine is not missionary work. It has nothing to do with liberty or freedom. It is about weakening Russia. Take Russia out of the equation and there would be little tangible support for Ukraine. There are other occupied peoples, including the Palestinians, who have suffered as brutally and far longer than Ukranians. But NATO is not arming Palestinians to fight against their Israeli occupiers or holding them up as heroic freedom fighters. Our love of freedom does not extend to Palestinians or the people of Yemen currently being bombed with British and American weapons, or the Kurds, Yazidis and Arabs resisting Turkey, a longtime NATO member, in its occupation and drone war throughout the north and east of Syria. Our love of freedom only extends to people who serve our “national interest.”
There will come a time when the Ukrainians, like the Kurds, will become expendable. They will disappear, as many others before them have, from our national discourse and our consciousness. They will nurse for generations their betrayal and suffering. The American empire will move on to use others, perhaps the “heroic” people of Taiwan, to further its futile quest for global hegemony. China is the big prize for our Dr. Strangeloves. They will pile up even more corpses and flirt with nuclear war to curtail China’s growing economic and military power. This is an old and predictable game. It leaves in its wake nations in ruins and millions of people dead and displaced. It fuels the hubris and self-delusion of the mandarins in Washington who refuse to accept the emergence of a multipolar world. If left unchecked, this “game of nations” may get us all killed.
VIDEO. Professor Stephen F. Cohen. “Ukraine vs. Russia – History & Causes.” ACURA (Aug 30, 2024).
Professor Cohen’s thoughts on the early years of the Russia, Ukraine conflict.
Read in browser »
Martin Sieff: “How the US and Its Allies Created the Ukraine Crisis…” Oct 31, 2024. ACURA (11-1-24). ACURA’s mailing address is: The American Committee for US-Russia Accord, PO Box 2134, New York, NY 10025.
The culpability of the West in general and the United States in particular for provoking and preserving the Ukraine war, Europe’s most destructive conflict since the end of World War II, is clear, documented, obvious and public. It is even admitted by several of the Western leaders who actively collaborated in it. Read in browser »
Wolfgang Munchau. “Europe’s reckless bid for victory.”
ACURA (Mar 06, 2025).
The absurdity of the European position was perhaps best captured in its full hubris last year by the historian and writer Anne Applebaum when she won a prestigious German peace prize. During her acceptance speech, she maintained that victory was more important than peace, asserting that the West’s ultimate goal should be regime change in […]
Read in browser »
“A River Runs Through the End of the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War,” Parts 1 and 2 (Complete) by Gordon hahn. October 28, 2024. ACURA (11-1-24). A river runs through Russian and, more recently, Ukrainian history. Ironically enough, the Dnieper River that unites Russia and Ukraine in this and other ways – the river rises in the Valdai Hills of Smolensk, Russia and runs through Belarus and Ukraine – is now the focus of the greatest schism in the history of Russian-Ukrainian relations. Russian forces appear impossible to stop and will arrive at the Dnieper at some point along its snaking length no later than next year, with Russian troops perhaps controlling the river’s and the country’s Left Bank by then. Russia – as well as the West and whatever remains of Ukraine‘s Maidan regime will then face some serious decisions.
Gordon Hahn. “The Empty Tank: Is Demise of the Ukrainian Army Near?” ACURA (Feb 03, 2025).
The collapse of Ukraine’s defense fronts along all or nearly the entire line of combat – which stretches from Kherson just north of Crimea to the east, then north through Donetsk to Kharkiv and Sumy – appears imminent. Read in browser »
PEACE
ENDING WARS: A Theory Applied to the Ukraine War
Paul Robinson. “ Ending the War in Ukraine: Analysis and Recommendations.” ACURA (12-12-24).
Originally published: Landmarks: A Journal of International Dialogue. Reaching a peace deal in Ukraine is not impossible, but it will require many Western leaders to recalibrate their expectations.
The war in Ukraine is nearing the end of its third year, but as yet there is no indication of imminent peace. For the past three years, Western powers, led by the United States of America, have sought a solution to the war by means of a single strategy: supporting Ukraine and pressuring Russia. The aim has been peace through victory. This strategy has failed. Probably over 200,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed; possibly tens of thousands of civilians have been killed also; and property worth tens of billions of dollars has been destroyed. The time has come when the policy of peace through victory needs to be replaced by a policy of peace, pure and simple.
The return of Donald Trump to the US presidency in January 2025 offers an opportunity to pursue such a policy. President Joe Biden has shown no interest in mediating a peace process. Neither have any European leaders. Trump, however, has indicated that he wishes to do so, and as a first step has appointed General Keith Kellogg as his Special Envoy for Russia and Ukraine, tasked specifically with finding a way to end the war.
In this context, proposals for how to end the war in Ukraine have acquired a new importance. Unfortunately, to date, many such proposals have been divorced from any understanding of how in practice wars actually end. This paper thus seeks to ground policy recommendations in studies of war termination. To that purpose, it first analyzes war termination theories and then applies those theories to the war in Ukraine.
The paper examines the topic from the standpoint of what is most likely to produce a lasting peace settlement. The rights and wrongs of the Ukrainian and Russian causes are not the subject of concern. While it has been said that “there is no peace without justice,” it might be more correct to say that “there is no justice without peace.” The aim of the analysis is peace in the negative sense of an absence of war, not peace in the positive sense, as the achievement of justice. Some may object to this approach, but any peace plan that fails to place the ending of war at the top of its agenda is liable to fail.
How Wars End. . . . MORE click on title
“Peace Negotiations, What We Need to Know” : Sachs and Ritter.
The complaints by Trump and Zelensky during the past few days over Putin’s non-appearance to discuss the end of the war (May 14 -17) did not include a statement from Putin or his representative. The televised statements by Trump and Zelensky, devoid of historical context, made it seem that Putin was opposed to peace. This breakdown of negotiations could have been prevented had Zelensky and his Western supporters followed through with March and April agreements described by Prof. Sachs, and perhaps is why Scott Ritter wrote his article “The Odessa Moment,” dated May 16, 2025, Scott Ritter Extra (https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-odessa-moment). Unfortunately peace negotiations are not being led by peacemakers like them. -Dick
Jeffrey Sachs. “Negotiating Lasting Peace in Ukraine.” Consortium News (March 11, 2025).
Ukraine will have to cede more territory than it would have in April 2022 — when the U.S. and U.K. talked it out of a peace deal — but it will gain sovereignty and international security arrangements. Read here…
This article is originally fromCommon Dreams. Biden Administration, Commentary, NATO, Russia, Turkey, U.S., Ukraine, United Nations, Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
By Jeffrey D. Sachs.
Common Dreams. Volume 30, Number 71 —Tuesday, March 6, 2025.
There should be little doubt about how a lasting peace can be established in Ukraine. In April 2022, Russia and Ukraine were on the verge of signing a peace agreement in Istanbul, with the Turkish government acting as mediator. The U.S. and U.K. talked Ukraine out of signing the agreement, and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have since died or been seriously injured. Yet the framework of the Istanbul Process still provides the basis of peace today.
The draft peace agreement (dated April 15, 2022) and the Istanbul Communique (dated March 29, 2022) on which it was based, offered a sensible and straightforward way to end the conflict. It’s true that three years after Ukraine broke off the negotiations, during which time Ukraine has incurred major losses, Ukraine will eventually cede more territory than it would have in April 2022 — yet it will gain the essentials: sovereignty, international security arrangements, and peace.
In the 2022 negotiations, the agreed issues were Ukraine’s permanent neutrality and international security guarantees for Ukraine. The final disposition of the contested territories was to be decided over time, based on negotiations between the parties, during which both sides committed to refrain from using force to change boundaries.
Given the current realities, Ukraine will cede Crimea and parts of southern and eastern Ukraine, reflecting the battlefield outcomes of the past three years.
Such an agreement can be signed almost immediately and in fact is likely to be signed in the coming months. As the U.S. is no longer going to underwrite the war, in which Ukraine would suffer yet more casualties, destruction and loss of territory, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is recognizing that it’s time to negotiate.
In his address to Congress, President Donald Trump quoted Zelensky as saying, “Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.” MORE [essential reading for understanding the full contexts for Prof. Sachs’s proposals. -D]
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a university professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the U.N. Broadband Commission for Development.
| Scott Ritter. “The Odessa Moment.” May 16, 2025. |
Russia has informed Ukraine of its baseline condition for conflict termination—the withdrawal of all Ukrainian troops from the territory of lands which, from the perspective of the Russian Constitution, constitute part of Mother Russia. These include Kherson, Zaporozhia, Donetsk and Lugansk. Russia has also made it clear that if Ukraine not accept these terms, the next time Russia is willing to sit down and negotiate with Ukraine their demands will include four additional Ukrainian oblasts, or administrative regions—presumably Odessa, Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kharkov. We have reached the Odessa Moment.
Back in January 2023, while appearing on “The Gaggle” with George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle, I postulated that Russia was approaching what I called “the Odessa Moment,” that confluence of military and political circumstances which, once reached, would trigger a strategic decision by Russia to expand the Special Military Operation (SMO) beyond the geography defined by the territories absorbed by Russia following a controversial referenda held in September 2022 on the territory of Kherson, Zaporozhia, Donetsk and Lugansk, in which the question of self-determination was answered by a vote on whether these territories should be incorporated into the Russian Federation or not.
As originally conceived, the SMO was not about territorial acquisition but rather defending the rights of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine. In negotiations which began less than a week after the SMO began—first in Gomel, Belarus, and later in Turkey—Russia simply sought to achieve that which had been promised as part of the Minsk Accords entered into with Ukraine, Germany and France in 2014-2015, in which Ukraine promised to make the appropriate changes to its Constitution guaranteeing that the rights and status of Russian-speaking Ukrainians would be protected.
Ukraine, backed by both Germany and France (and the United States as well) opted to treat the Minsk Accords as an opportunity to build up military power sufficient to reclaim parts of the Donbas region (comprised of the oblasts of Donetsk and Lugansk) as well as Crimea which were lost in the aftermath of the CIA-backed Maidan coup of February 2014 which saw the Russian-speaking lawfully elected President, Victor Yanukovych, ousted and replaced by US-backed Ukrainian nationalists. Between 2015 and 2022, the US and its NATO allies trained and equipped hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers for the sole purpose of reclaiming by force the territories of Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea.
Zelensky meets with Macron, Merkle and Vladimir Putin, December 2019
In April 2019 Volodymyr Zelensky, the former comedian-turned politician, won the election for the office of President of Ukraine, ousting the incumbent, Petro Poroshenko. Zelensky ran on a platform of peace, winning over the Russian-speaking population on the promise that he would “crawl on his knees” if necessary to work out a peace plan with Russia. Instead, within months Zelensky was convening a war council where he promised to use the Ukrainian military to reclaim the parts of Donetsk and Lugansk that had freed themselves from Ukrainian rule.
This was Zelensky’s first mistake.
Scott will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 264 of Ask the Inspector.
The path he chose led to Russia, in the days before the initiation of the SMO and after Ukraine began mobilizing its forces to attack the Donbas, recognizing the independence of both Donetsk and Lugansk and entering into a collective security agreement, actions which guaranteed that the Donbas would never again be part of Ukraine.
This was Zelensky’s Donbas moment.
Russian troops in Ukraine
Zelensky’s second mistake came in April 2022, when he walked away from the negotiations that Russia had initiated immediately after the start of the SMO which culminated in a finalized signature-ready peace agreement which has become known as the Istanbul communique. This agreement would have recognized the independence of the Donbas republics, but returned all other Ukrainian territory that had been occupied by Russian troops during the SMO.
Zelensky, pressured by his US and NATO supporters, rejected this agreement, and instead took tens of billions of dollars in military aid from the US and NATO which he used to rebuild his depleted military force, which he then used to launch a counterattack against Russian forces which had already began their withdrawal from Ukraine as a good faith measure in keeping with the terms of the Istanbul communique.
Russia responded by organizing referenda in both the Donbas and the two oblasts, Kherson and Zaporozhia, that constituted the land bridge connecting Crimea with Russia proper. These referenda were on the question of these territories becoming part of the Russian Federation; all four voted yes, and after the appropriate legal action was taken by the Russian parliament, President Putin signed a decree which made all four oblasts part of the Russian Federation.
This was Zelensky’s Little Russia moment.
A Kherson citizen votes in the September 2022 referendum on joining Russia
And now Zelensky finds himself at a new crossroads.
His Odessa Moment. . . . MORE https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-odessa-moment
“Biggest threat from Ukraine war: Last Nuclear Agreement suspended.”
Prabir Purkayastha. Mronline.org (3-8-23).
War rarely stays within the boundaries set or desired for it. That makes returning to arms control crucial for the survival of humanity.
Originally published: NewsClick.in on March 5, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in). WarAmericas, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United StatesNewswireAnti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), New START or New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Russia-Ukraine War
OTHER PEACE ADOCATES
President Trump as Peacemaker (5 articles).
TRUMP Constraining the War
“Trump Says No To ‘Foolish’ US Missile Attacks On Russia”
By Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (12-14-24). President-elect Donald Trump accused the Biden administration of “escalating this war” in Ukraine and “making it worse” by allowing U.S. long-range ATACMS missiles to be fired from Ukraine deep into Russia. “I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia,” Trump told Time magazine in an interview published on Thursday. He said: “Why are we doing that? We’re just escalating this war and making it worse. That should not have been allowed to be done. Now they’re doing not only missiles, but they’re doing other types of weapons. And I think that’s a very big mistake.” -more-
Trump as Peacemaker
Gordon Hahn. “First steps toward ending the war in Ukraine.” ACURA (Mar 06, 2025).
Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s clumsy rhetoric, he has taken the first courageous steps to ending the needless, all too avoidable NATO-Russia Ukrainian War. Read in browser » [But read Scott Ritter’s article cited above.]
Axios. “Trump says he wants to meet Putin soon to discuss a Ukraine peace deal.” ACURA (Jan 27, 2025).
“Our effort to reach a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine are now hopefully underway. It is so important to get that done. Millions of soldiers are getting killed. Millions of Russians and millions of Ukrainians. It has to end,” Trump said in his video address to Davos attendees. Read in browser »
Ed Lozansky. “Trump’s Mixed Feelings Team.” ACURA (Dec 10, 2024).
During his presidential campaign, Trump pledged that if he won, he would end the war within 24 hours, even before moving into the White House. This didn’t happen, and moreover, the fighting kept escalating. So, one would assume the real action would start after January 20, 2025, but the team he chooses to fulfill this […]
Read in browser »
“Insider: Trump’s advisors are laying out plans on how to end the war in Ukraine.” ACURA (Nov 11, 2024).
The proposals all depart from President Joe Biden’s approach of letting Kyiv decide when peace talks should begin. They also all recommend freezing the war where it stands, geographically. Read in browser »
VIDEO. Col. Douglas Macgregor. “We Have No Leverage.” ACURA (May 20, 2025). Acura mailing address is: The American Committee for US-Russia Accord
PO Box 2134, New York, NY 10025
Doug Macgregor talks with the Deep Dive podcast on Trump’s delusions of leverage over Russia. Read in browser »
Prashad: Opposition to NATO’s advocacy of the war in the Global South and Europe.
Vijay Prashad. “All wars end in negotiations. So will the war in Ukraine,” The Third Newsletter (2025). Mronline.org (1-18-25).
By Vijay Prashad (Posted Jan 17, 2025). Originally published:Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 16, 2025 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research). Imperialism, Inequality, Strategy, WarGlobalNewswireNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), President Elect Donald Trump, Russia-Ukraine War, Tricontinental Newsletter
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). . . .on 12 December 2024, Rutte gave a speech. . . . published on NATO’s website in a very curious form, as a poem rather than the typical bureaucratic prose. [Four stanzas I shortened to one. –D]:
And, finally, to the citizens of NATO countries, especially in Europe, I say:
Tell your banks and pension funds it is simply unacceptable that they refuse to invest in the defence industry.
Defence is not in the same category as illicit drugs and pornography.
Investing in defence is an investment in our security.
It’s a must!
Rutte wrote no such poem for Palestine or for Sudan, where the devastation has been much greater. Only Ukraine, with several evasions and errors of fact, at a time when there is no appetite within Europe to prolong this conflict. Rutte’s poem asks the already austerity-struck NATO states to increase their defence spending to at least 2% of their GDP. Donald Trump has already called to raise the threshold to 5%.
From No Cold War comes briefing no. 16, which provides a clear analysis of the overwhelming opposition to the Ukraine war within the Global South and Europe alike. Please read it carefully, download it, and share it. The clarity of this text speaks directly to Rutte’s doggerel. . . . MORE https://nocoldwar.org/
Ted Galen Carpenter. “Ending the Second Cold War.” ACURA (Apr 18, 2024). We should not want another period of multiple decades marked by hostility and a lack of normal economic relations. Let’s see if the current generation of policymakers can be wiser than their predecessors.
Read in browser »
SUPPORT FOR THE WAR AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS TO PEACEMAKING
Ukraine’s Nazi History
Joe Lauria. “On Neo-Nazi Influence In Ukraine.” Consortium News. Popular Resistance.org (4-21-25). The U.S. relationship with Ukrainian fascists began after the Second World War. During the war, units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) took part in the Holocaust, killing at least 100,000 Jews and Poles. Mykola Lebed, a top aide to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the fascist OUN-B, was recruited by the C.I.A. after the war, according to a 2010 study by the U.S. National Archives. The government study said, “Bandera’s wing (OUN/B) was a militant fascist organization.” Bandera’s closest deputy, Yaroslav Stetsko, said: ““I…fully appreciate the undeniably harmful and hostile….” -more-
Odessa Massacre v. revolutionaries.
“Odessa Massacre 10 Years On: Neo-Nazis Drowned The City In Blood” by Ilya Tsukanov. Orinoco Tribune. Popular Resistance.org (5-5-24). This Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of the May 2, 2014 Odessa Trade Unions Building massacre, in which 48 anti-Maidan activists were burned alive by neo-Nazi thugs. The violence, coming soon after Kiev kicked off its ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in the Donbass, demonstrated the new regime’s readiness to drown Ukraine in blood to cling to power. The warm weather of the spring of 2014 was accompanied by the winds of revolutionary fervor across southeastern Ukraine, with activists from across Kharkov, the Donbass, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Nikolayev and Odessa rising up in opposition to… -more-
US SUSTAINING THE WAR
Tara Copp. “US to Send Near-$1B in Arms for Long-term Use to Ukraine.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (December 8, 2024).
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the Biden Admin. is spending the remaining congressionally approved $8 billion for Ukrainian drones and munitions programs of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems. This is in addition to the $725 million for weapons recently drawn directly from Pentagon stockpiles. “The U.S. has provided Ukraine with more than 62 billion in military aid” since Feb. 2022. Austin and Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell were honored for their lifetime service [as leaders of the US War Party] at the annual gathering of national security officials, weapons manufacturers, and lawmakers. Lloyd presented the US line: “Ukraine, American security, and human freedom.” [Typically, Russia as a threat is mentioned several times as the motive for all this money and weapons, typically without any questioning of whether such preparation for war is needed, since the Cold War ended with the end of the USSR, which had also disbanded the Warsaw Pact. See my anthologies on NATO, US Soviet/Russophobia, and the many US wars. OMNI NATO ANTHOLOGY #2, JUNE 18, 2023, jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com
James W. Carden. “How the Neocons Won the Transition.” ACURA (Dec 10, 20247).
Trump’s campaign rhetoric led many to believe that foreign policy realists and restrainers might have had a shot at some of the top national security and diplomatic posts. Whatever the reason, Trump’s nominee s for secretary of state, secretary of defense, deputy secretary of defense, national security adviser, and UN ambassador—as well as those heading the […]
Read in browser »
Anatol Lieven. “Trump’s threat to walk away leaves Ukraine exposed.” ACURA (Apr 20, 2025).
The Trump administration has warned that if there is not an early agreement on an end to the war in Ukraine, the US will “walk away” from the peace process. In Trump’s words: “Now if, for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say, ‘You’re foolish, you’re […] Read in browser »
Robert Skidelsky. “Why Is the UK So Invested in the Russia–Ukraine War?” ACURA (Jan. 07, 2025).
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election of November 2024 has shredded the liberal script about the Ukraine war. That script was to offer unconditional moral and material support for a Ukrainian victory, defined minimally as recovery of the invaded territories of Crimea and Donbass. In Britain, it was considered almost treasonable to suggest […] Read in browser »
VIDEO: Nicolai N. Petro. “The future of Russia and Ukraine as the war draws to a close…” ACURA Mar 18, 2025.
Part 2 of Professor Petro’s conversation with Pascal Lottaz. There is a serious risk that even if the political establishment of Ukraine (Parliament and Government) came to the conclusion that only a surrender could save the country from complete annihilation, the ultra-right wing with its willingness to kill their own people, might be able to […] Read in browser »
James W. Carden. “A Question of Incitement? “ ACURA (Mar 18, 2025).
Last week came news of a Ukrainian “intelligence gathering” service called MOLFAR with an “enemies list” that includes, among other notables, the current vice president, JD Vance. What makes this all the more galling is that it was ( is?) being funded by the US government though USAID. Whatever sympathy we may (and do) feel […] Read in browser »
Ron Ridenour. “Journalist Randy Credico has been placed on Ukrainian terrorist ‘kill-list’ via CIA project website.” Editor. Mronline.org (6-28-23).
Friends are urging Credico to go underground.
Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 23, 2023 (more by CovertAction Magazine) | (Posted Jun 27, 2023). Human Rights, Inequality, Strategy, WarAmericas, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United StatesNewswire‘Hit-List’, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Julian Assange, Kill List, Randy Credico
“Habermas and the war in Ukraine.” Atilio Borón. Mronline.org (6-28-23). The prevailing rarefied ideological climate that Germany and most European countries are suffering from today makes a very cautious call for prudence and negotiation a criminal offense that deserves to be punished with ostracism.
Western Support for the War from Western Media.
A friend sent me a list of a dozen reasons why Trump won in 2024, one of which, #8, applies perfectly to Western support for the Ukraine and against Russia: “Eight, more people than I wish to think about get their news from a single source or like sources.” See SCOTT RITTER: “Why I Support Consortium News” (12-7-24). https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/06/scott-ritter-why-i-support-consortium-news/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=c3b17198-0544-4e41-9881-ac7061530d08
Uriel Araujo. “Popular Revolt Looming in Ukraine? Zelensky’s Battle Over Death Numbers Speaks for Itself.” BRICS Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service. 12 Dec 2024. [Here are some passages from the ending of this significant article. –D] Making a peace deal is of course something the radical nationalists and their armed militias would never allow and things escalated instead. It would not be an exaggeration at all to describe today’s Ukraine as a kind of corrupt oligarchic dictatorship – with an acute far-right problemt. . . . Regardless of one’s own political sympathies, any honest discussion on the roots of the current confrontation should include such ethnopolitical issues as well as the geopolitics of NATO enlargement – or else one fails to grasp some of the key points.
Joe Lauria. “US Bill Would Reverse ATACMS Order.” Consortium News (12-7-24). A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, if it were law, would reduce the danger of nuclear war over Ukraine by stopping U.S. ATACMS attacks on Russia, reports Joe Lauria. Read here…
JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS
“To The Last Ukrainian” By Moon of Alabama. Popular Resistance.org (11-30-24). The U.S. is willing to (proxy-)fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. White House presses Ukraine to lower draft age to meet manpower needs against Russia WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is urging Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and revamping its mobilization laws to allow for the conscription of those as young as 18. A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private consultations, said Wednesday that the outgoing Democratic administration wants Ukraine to lower the mobilization age… -more-
VIDEO. “State Department Asked About Any Potential Talks To End War In Ukraine Before Biden Leaves Office.” ACURA (Nov 11, 2024).
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller reiterates Biden Administration’s unconscionable lack of interest in pursuing negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Read in browser »
Andrew P. Napolitano. “A Brief History of Free Speech in America.” Consortium News (9-27-24).
When the feds claim that articulating views of the war in Ukraine from a Russian perspective is somehow criminal they ignore the core purpose of the First Amendment, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Read here…
Christopher Caldwell: “The Imminent Russia-US War.” ACURA (Sept. 13, 2024).
What makes ATACMS lethal isn’t just their payload and speed, but their GPS targeting. The weapon uses a dedicated system that the United States controls, drawing on a constellation of satellites run by the US military that operate together in real time. The Biden administration has sought to reassure the public that Ukrainians will have […]
Read in browser » Christopher Caldwell
All week long, the Biden administration has been hinting that it would authorize Ukraine to strike deep inside Russian territory with US-made Army Tactical Missiles Systems, or ATACMS. These are computer-guided supersonic missiles with a range of up to 190 miles. They can’t reach Moscow, but they could hit the Russian cities of Kursk, Voronezh, and Rostov. Britain has already authorized Ukraine to use British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to attack Russia. Secretary of State Tony Blinken traveled to Kiev in the company of British Foreign Secretary David Lammy to discuss the matter with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Some kind of escalatory announcement was expected to accompany British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Friday visit to Washington.
This development prompted Vladimir Putin to make a carefully worded statement to a TV interviewer Thursday: “If this decision is made, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, the European countries, in the war in Ukraine. This changes the very nature of the conflict.” Starmer dismissed the remark. Putin, he said, can stop his war with Ukraine any time he wants. One could just as easily say that, any time they wanted, Starmer and Biden could stop risking Armageddon to meddle in the affairs of sovereign countries halfway around the world.
The more troubling thing is that Starmer doesn’t seem to understand what Putin is saying. Because, although the point is somewhat complex and the reporting on the West’s intentions has been cloudy, Putin is right.
Right about what? What is Putin complaining about? This ATACMS business seems like familiar ground. We have already armed the Ukrainians to the teeth. In Russian eyes, the American-initiated militarization of what had been a de facto buffer zone is what started the war in the first place. Although the Ukrainians have been doing a great deal of dying in this war, at several important junctures, they have seemed immaterial to a conflict that is really being fought by the United States. . . . MORE click on title
Christopher Caldwell is a Compact columnist, a contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and the author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.
Robert Hackett. “The Economist and the War in Ukraine.” ACURA (Aug 30, 2024).
A retiring foreign editor, to nervous laughter from his colleagues, joked that “The Economist never met a war it didn’t like.” Read in browser »
KURSK
Ted Snider. “The Cost of Kursk.” ACURA (Aug 28, 2024).
The bold and surprising incursion across the border into the Kursk region of Russia has won Ukraine the temporary possession of several Russian villages and a few hundred square miles of Russian territory. But the strategically cheap Russian land may have been bought at a very costly price. […]
Read in browser »
George Beebe. “The Hazards of Ukraine’s Incursion into Russia.” Acura (Aug 20, 2024).
Should Americans regard Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region as a turning point in the war, one that could bring Kyiv important new leverage in bargaining over a settlement, if not outright victory? As tempting as it is to believe that the Ukrainian military can aspire to more than stalemate and compromise, there is […]
Read in browser »
Yuri Pushchaev: The Philosophy of the Ones Who Left: An Experiment in Intellectual Autism. ACURA (April 18, 2024).
In the following essay, which first appeared in Russkaya Istina (Jan. 8, 2024), Russian philosopher Yuri Pushchaev takes issue with a group of émigré Russian writers who have written a book sharply condemning their home country for the war in Ukraine. According to Pushchaev, these émigré authors have shut their eyes to history. They write as if the war in Ukraine […] Read in browser »
“CHRIS HEDGES INTERVIEWS SEYMOUR HERSH ON NORD STREAM PIPELINES AND US PRESS FAILURE.” Chris Hedges Report (
March 14, 2023).
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Seymour Hersh on how the U.S. blew up the Nord Stream pipelines and why the press has ignored what is arguably an act of war against Russia. [Hedges’ Introduction and the Interview are essential reading in understanding Cold War II, US hatred of Russia, NATO, and several other important subjects. Here is the Intro. -D]
On Monday, September 26, 2022, a series of underwater explosions blew huge holes into the Nord Stream 1 and 2, two pairs of pipelines, constructed to carry Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. These four pipelines, steel-reinforced concrete cables built to withstand the direct impact of the anchor of an aircraft carrier, were destroyed in a clandestine act of sabotage, according to an investigation by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh. The pair of Nord Stream 1 pipelines carried Russian gas to Germany until Moscow cut off supplies at the end of August 2022. The pair of Nord Stream 2 pipelines, which would have doubled the amount of gas that would be available to Germany and Western Europe, were never operational as Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.
White House spokesperson Adrienne Watson called Hersh’s report “false and complete fiction.” CIA spokesperson Tammy Thorp said: “This claim is completely and utterly false.”
Denials by U.S. officials of covert operations, of course, are routine. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, for example, denied any U.S. involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, assuring the American people that the invasion was not “staged from American soil.” When Seymour Hersh in 2004 published the first stories about the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, a Pentagon spokes called his reporting “a tapestry of nonsense,” adding that Hersh was a guy who “threw a lot of crap against the wall” and “expects someone to peel off what’s real.”
Despite the denials, the United States has long expressed hostility to the pipelines. It worked to prevent the completion of the pipelines and imposed illegal sanctions on enterprises engaged in its construction. President Biden on February 7, 2022, prior to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, stated: “If Russia invades … there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2 …We will bring an end to it.”
During a Senate hearing, Victoria Nuland, undersecretary of state for political affairs, was asked by Senator Ted Cruz whether his legislation aimed at sanctioning the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which was voted down in January 2022, could have stopped the war.
“Like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea,” Nuland said.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the destruction of the pipelines as a “tremendous opportunity,” which would enable EU countries to become less dependent on Russian energy.
The New York Times reported in December that Russia had begun expensive repairs on the pipelines, raising questions about Washington’s claim that Russia had bombed its own pipelines.
These explosions are not insignificant acts. They are acts of war. They expose not only the collapse of the rule of law, but the lack of oversight by Congress. I covered the mining of Nicaragua’s harbors in 1983 by the Reagan administration as a reporter in Central America. The mining was designed cripple the economy in Nicaragua and boost the fortunes of the US-backed contra rebels seeking to overthrow the Sandinista government. The mining backfired. It sparked outrage around the globe and saw Congress cut off funding for the Contras a year later. The International Court of Justice in 1986 ruled against the United States over its mining of the harbors.
Hersh’s revelations should have led to a similar condemnation by Congress and an internal investigation into illegal activities by the CIA and Pentagon. It should have prompted news organizations to dig deeper into a scandal, a flagrant violation of the U.N. Charter and international treaties. It should have prompted a national debate about the war in Ukraine and the steady escalation of our involvement, one that could lead to a direct confrontation with Russia and nuclear war. Joining me to discuss his latest investigative piece is Seymour Hersh, one of our most important and fearless investigative reporters who, among many ground-breaking stories, exposed the U.S. Army’s 1969 My Lai massacre and cover-up, the Watergate scandal, the secret bombing of Cambodia, the torture by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib of Iraqi prisoners and the false narrative told by the U.S. government about the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden. . . .MORE
“New evidence from Nord Stream underwater expedition refutes official claims.” Max Blumenthal. Mronline.org (6-30-23).
Observers have drawn a number of conclusions based on a recent series of visits to the site of the Nord Stream pipeline rupture via drone.
Originally published: The Grayzone on June 27, 2023 by Wyatt Reed (more by The Grayzone). Inequality, State Repression, Strategy, WarAmericas, Europe, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, United StatesNewswireNord Stream pipelines
After a recent underwater expedition, The Grayzone can now reveal…what the real blast sites tell us about the worst act of eco-terrorism in history. [But this detailed, technical investigation does not reveal who was behind the explosion. –D]
Arms to Ukraine
“Arms imports to Europe surge despite global decline.”
Mronline.org (3-16-23).
By teleSUR Desk (Posted Mar 15, 2023). Originally published: teleSUR English on March 13, 2023 (more by teleSUR English).
Financialization, Movements, Strategy, WarAmericas, Asia, Australia, China, Europe, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, United StatesNewswire
As a result of military aid from the U.S. and many European states, Ukraine became the 3rd biggest importer of major arms during 2022.
War Profiteering
David Starr. “ Profiting Off of Death and Suffering is the American Way.” CovertAction Magazine Mar 03, 2023.
Arms Industry and U.S. Government Have Now Practically Merged
The United States’s imperial foreign policy has been evident since day one, but especially starting with the Gilded Age and the arrogant doctrine of Manifest Destiny of the mid-19th century. The imperial “cause” continued through the decades leading up to today.
And today, the U.S. arms industry and the U.S. Congress have a reciprocal relationship. Because of this relationship, many members of Congress have grown rich off of war and death.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has presented the latest opportunity for profiteering off of war. The arms industry is certainly making big bucks, with policies that fuel the conflict with the selling of an array of weaponry. There are politicians who have bought stock in the arms industry just before Russia invaded Ukraine. Nothing like perfect timing to secure one’s profits.
Never to turn down a “good” military intervention, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) invested in Lockheed Martin shares the day before the invasion. The amount was small, between $1,001 and $15,000, compared to some investors. But Greene could not resist. […]
WESTERN MEDIA
“‘Western’ Media Spread Copium To Prolong The War In Ukraine” By Moon of Alabama. Popular Resistance.org (7-6-22).
Above photo: People wave Russian national flags celebrating the recognition of independence in the centre of Donetsk, the territory controlled by pro-Russian rebels, in eastern Ukraine, on Monday, February 21. Alexei Alexandrov/AP Photo.
The war in Ukraine is clearly progressing in Russia’s favor. That is why I am appalled by the incompetent descriptions in ‘western’ media of past and current operations in that war. What did Russia just do? It had made an ambitious attempt to encircle a large are in Donbas and succeeded with the effort in just a few days.. -more-
“They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.” The Chris Hedges Report . Wed, Jul 5,
Listen to This Article: “They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.” The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war. Listen · 13M
Ambrose Sylvan. “Western media has falsely presented the Donbas’ ‘Drive For Autonomy’ as being instigated by Moscow.” Editor. mronline.org (7-16-23). In Reality It Resulted Largely from Kyiv’s Destruction of Eastern Ukraine’s Economy Under Neo-Liberal Economic Policies Pushed by Washington Since the 1990s.
Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 13, 2023 by Ambrose Sylvan (more by CovertAction Magazine). Media, Movements, State Repression, StrategyAmericas, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United StatesNewswire
The war in Ukraine is commonly seen through one of two lenses. The vision presented by Western, NATO-aligned powers is one of an astro-turfed Donbas separatism created by Moscow to justify the division of Ukraine.
The view of NATO’s critics is that the Donbas republics rebelled against the Euromaidan revolution and the country’s nationalistic, Euro-centric tilt. The reality is that this conflict started much earlier and was merely frozen until the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2013. . . . MORE
Conor Gallagher. “Underestimate Russia at your own risk: A comparison of Hubris by Germany during WWII and today’s collective West.” Editor. mronline.org (7-13-23). In honor of the NATO summit July 11 and 12, this is a comparison of how the Nazi leadership in World War Two and today’s collective West similarly underestimated Russia and overestimated their capabilities.
Originally published:Naked Capitalism on July 10, 2023 by Conor Gallagher (more by Naked Capitalism) (Posted Jul 12, 2023). Empire, History, Strategy, WarAmericas, Europe, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, United StatesNewswire
In honor of the NATO summit July 11 and 12, this is a comparison of how the Nazi leadership in World War Two and today’s collective West similarly underestimated Russia and overestimated their capabilities.
Despite Russia’s overwhelming upper hand in Ukraine, Western officials and media continue to largely pump sunshine and weave stories of Russian collapse.
There are increasing breaks in the fever, and it looks like maybe, hopefully the acceptance of the loss is gaining traction in Washington.
Meanwhile, the unwillingness or inability for hardliners to objectively assess efforts against Russia occurs today just as it did during Operation Barbarossa. As Seymour Hersh writes:
There is an enormous gap between the way the professionals in the American intelligence community assess the situation and what the White House and the supine Washington press project to the public by uncritically reproducing the statements of Blinken and his hawkish cohorts.
This too is reminiscent of the Nazi offensive against the Soviet Union when the failure was hidden from the German public. Adding to the similarities is the fact that both the Third Reich command and today’s officials in the West simultaneously downplay Russia’s military capabilities while endlessly hyping the threat from Moscow.
Hitler, similar to so many Western “experts” and officials today, mocked Russia’s supposed backwardness while also hyping the threat “Slavic Bolshevism” posed to the West. The progression of his comments show him seesawing between a reluctant acceptance and desperate hope as his miscalculations of Russia slowly dawn on him. It’s a path today’s governments in the West are still discovering. . . . MORE
NUCLEAR DANGER AT Zaporizhzhia
Jessica Corbett.
“Tensions in Ukraine Show Why ‘Nuclear Power Is the Most Dangerous Way to Boil Water’.” Common Dreams (7-6-23). “Calling for a no-fire zone around Zaporizhzhia is not enough,” said Beyond Nuclear. “We must call for no nuclear power at all.” Jessica Corbett
RELATED ISSUE
Nuclear Weapons
Reuters. “Putin wants to restart nuclear arms cuts talks, Kremlin says after Trump comment.” ACURA (Jan 26, 2025).
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear he wants to restart nuclear arms cuts talks as soon as possible, the Kremlin said on Friday in response to comments by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump said on Thursday he wanted to work towards cutting nuclear arms, adding that he thought Russia and China might support reducing […] Read in browser »
CONTENTS Ukraine War Anthology #34 (25 articles and books)
Trump’s Call to Putin: [VFP-all] Is peace at hand in the long Cold War with Russia?
AGAIN A TIME FOR REFLECTION FOR PEACE
Walter Hixson. “Imperialism and War: The History Americans Need to Own.”
Consortium News.
Benjamin and Davies. War in Ukraine. (Dick’s rev. with Baud’s Operation Z).
Benjamin Abelow. How the West Brought War to Ukraine.
Melvin Goodman. “A Personal Discussion of Russian National Security.”
THE WAR
Eva Bartlett. “Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces are Defending their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism.”
Big Serge. “Total Kievan Debellation:The Russo-Ukrainian War: Year 3.”
John Helmer. “The War Came to Pokrovsk.”
Lord Robert Skidelsky: “Speech in the House of Lords on Ukraine.”
Scott Ritter. “Life, preempted.”
Chris Bambery. “NATO’s spiralling commitments to Ukraine risk catastrophe.”
RELATED ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
Lederer and Peltz. “Russian foreign minister invokes nuclear capacity in UN speech…”
Lee Fang. “New York Times’ . . .War Escalation Journalism.”
World Socialist Web Site. “. . .long range NATO missiles against Russia….”
Ted Snider. “The Damage Victoria Nuland Has Done.”
Anatol Lieven. “Biden team blows off deadline for Ukraine war strategy.”
Unintended Consequences Interviews Benjamin Abelow.
Donald A. Smith. “The US Provoked Russia over Ukraine.”
Jonathan McCormick. “An Interview with Professor Nicolai N. Petro: On Ukraine’s prospects.”
James W. Carden. “Why Does American Folly March on in Ukraine?”
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: “Ukraine War, The Third Year, featuring Grigory Yavlinsky.”
Saheli Chowdhury. “Ukraine … a private mercenary company of NATO. . . . ” (Interv.).
Larry Johnson. “Star CIA Analysts Are Out of Touch With. . . Russia”.
Sonja Van den Ende. “Media [and] Russian Retreat From Kherson….”
Aidan Jonah. “Canadian Professor attacked by mainstream media for opposing NATO narrative on Ukraine.”
Ukraine War Anthologyy #33
END UKRAINE WAR ANTHOLOGY #35