RUSSOPHOBIA

KIT KLARENBERG—The official tampering was understandable, Katchanovski argues, given how fundamental Kiev’s narrative of the Maidan massacre is to the legitimacy of the Ukrainian government. The false flag mass murder led directly to Yanukovych, justifying the withdrawal of government forces from downtown Kiev, the seizure of government buildings by Maidan activists, and the president’s unconstitutional removal by the Ukrainian legislature. All these developments paved a path to the eight-year-long civil war in Donbas, which claimed the lives of over 14,000 and precipitated Russia’s invasion in February 2022.

M. K. BHADRAKUMAR— Clearly, such a massive shift in India’s military policies needs to be co-related with the fundamental postulates of foreign policy. That said, curiously, call it “bipartisan consensus” or whatever, India’s main opposition party apparently couldn’t care less about the shift. This is not surprising. The shift is actually about a nascent India-US alliance to counter China — and that is a policy front where it is difficult to choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

EDITOR—A highly illuminating chat with Dmitri Zolotarev, a Russian scientist living in Siberia and brought up in the Soviet Union, who has many warm memories from a country that most Westerners have been indoctrinated to fear and hate. It’s clear the Soviet Union, one of the greatest and noblest experiments in human history, an experiment frequently poisoned by the unrelenting hostility of the capitalist world that unleashed all manner of weapons against it, from a 75-year boycott/blockade to outright wars (Nazi invasion, CIA-instigated Chechen wars, etc.) would have easily surpassed the West if this extraordinary campaign by the West had not been instituted.

EDITOR—Scott Ritter dissects the many reasons why Putin is not likely to be the prime suspect in Wagner Chief Prigozhin’s death.

MAX PARRY—Although he was at one point an early member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and helped compose its constitution, Dugin is certainly no longer a communist and far from it. But before one delves into his work, it is important to understand that his controversial views developed at a major turning point in Russian history where an ideological vacuum opened amid the collapse of the Soviet Union with the introduction of extreme free market capitalism in the early 1990s.