As a young man, Roy Bourgeois enlisted to fight in the Vietnam War. After being injured, he became a volunteer at a local orphanage and was inspired to become a priest upon his return to the US. Bourgeois became a priest in Bolivia during the dictatorship of General Hugo Banzer. He decided he could not be an apolitical priest. He spoke out against Banzer’s political repression, leading to his arrest and expulsion from Bolivia. Back in the US, Bourgeois organized protests outside Fort Benning, Georgia, where the US was training Salvadorian soldiers to fight the leftist insurgency (“death squads”, also used in many other nations of Latin America, Africa and Asia).
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The discussion focuses on the history of Russian/American relations in the recent past, and the US/NATO policies directly provoking the current proxy war in Ukraine, which Moscow correctly interprets as forcing a war against the whole collective West. The host and his guest also touch upon the nature of Russia’s transformation under Putin, and the openly proclaimed objectives of the “Western alliance”, including regime change in Moscow, the defeat and destruction of Russia as a world-class military power, and the balkanisation of Russia into vassal statelets for easier control and exploitation.
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Ukraine crisis a catalyst for the burial of American hegemony
13 minutes readYU NING—The US is seeking to establish an anti-Russia coalition, however, it only has temporarily unified its traditional allies such as the European countries, Japan and Australia by constantly shaping the “Russia threat” and hyping the slogan of “democracy vs authoritarianism.” “It does not look like the circle will grow bigger,” said Oleg Ivanov, deputy head of the International and National Security Department, Diplomatic Academy, Moscow.
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After the Ukraine Is Over, Many a European Heart is Aching
26 minutes readBATIUSHKA—Russia could no longer allow a hostile, US-controlled, NATO-armed and soon-to-be-nuclear Ukraine to exist. Therefore, it is being liberated. It should have happened long before, but Russia was much too weak to do so before. When the Zelensky regime falls, billions of dollars of Western arms and supplies will fall into Russian hands.
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BIG SERGE—W
ho is the greatest general in history?The question, while fun to contemplate, is indeed a thorny one, as it presumes that the figure of the “general” takes a consistent form that can be compared fairly across the ages. Upon reflection, this is not immediately obvious. One can hardly imagine Konstantin Rokossovskiĭ or Erich Manstein personally leading the charge of the Macedonian cavalry the way Alexander the Great did – but it is equally difficult to imagine Alexander sitting dutifully in a command post, pouring over situation maps and directing the movements of dozens of divisions from afar. The commander traded his lance and sword for maps, pencils, and telephones.