BATIUSHKA—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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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.
End the U.S. empire!
Germany alone has almost 120 bases—really an occupied country. Japan and Italy follow closely, along with South Korea. The cynical blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines, leaving Europe's industries and people hung out to dry shows their lack of true sovereignty.8 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—Currently, the U.S. has exactly 900 military bases in foreign countries, in addition to the 749 bases inside the U.S. itself. The U.S. Government minimizes and tries to hide this reality from the public. Furthermore, although the U.S. is officially estimated to spend around 36% of the entire world’s military expenditures, the actual figure is around 50% of the world’s military expenditures, and the added approximately 14% is being paid-out through federal U.S. Departments other than the ‘Defense’ Department, so as to make the total U.S. figure appear to be only 36% of the global total.
An absorbing chat about the Ukraine war and world affairs with three notable expats, Gonzalo Lira, Alex Chistoforou, of the Duran, and Brian Berletic, host and chief editor of The New Atlas.
John Bolton Coauthored Strategy on Creating Bioweapons to Ensure US ‘Global Leadership’: Russian MOD
ILYA TSUKANOV—Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops have released trove after trove of confidential documents detailing Pentagon bioweapons programs across the globe, particularly in Ukraine. US officials and media have broadly ignored the revelations, but part of the information has been corroborated in independent reporting. John Bolton, the Washington arch-neocon who served as one of the architects of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, and as former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor before resigning in disgrace, was intimately involved in formulating the US drive for global dominance in bioweapons research, a top Russian military official has indicated.

