EDITOR—Russia has been observing and collecting intel on where Ukraine ammo/weapons dumps are for a long time, says Garland, and they use this constantly enhanced information to modulate the enemy’s options. In the case of the long-awaited (and announced!) “counter-offensive”, Moscow apparently has decided to decapitate the Ukrainian military’s options (read: NATO), by blowing up many of their critical logistical centers.
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Garland Nixon is interviewed on CGTN on the strategic confrontation between Beijing and Washington. Garland argues that the US supports and wishes to impose a form of international feudalism that most of the world now rejects. The US can’t conceive the world outside of power hierarchies, says Nixon.
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Eric Zuesse’s Urgent Dispatches: U.S. Nuclear-War Strategy
19 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—He was attributing to the Soviet Union the win-WW-III objective that he was advocating for the U.S. to adopt. His even deeper underlying assumption was that a war, including a nuclear war, is a contest in evilness between two sides, and that America must therefore be even more evil than he was assuming that the Soviet Union already was: that this would inevitably be a contest in hate and in psychopathy — a contest in destructiveness, and nothing more than that — and that the U.S. simply must win it. He didn’t provide any reason why the U.S. must win that type of contest.
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Useful Nazis? The rehabilitation of fascists is happening again
15 minutes readAMIAD HOROWITZ—The anti-communist allies that occupied western Germany didn’t only embrace Nazi scientists. Many former high-ranking officers from the Nazi military were brought back to head up the development of a new armed force in postwar Germany. Adolf Heusinger, a leading general in Hitler’s military, eventually became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Hans Speidel, another high-ranking German general during WWII, was the first four-star general in the reconstituted army of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany).
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DEBORAH ARMSTRONG—Regis has traveled around the world to make documentaries like “The Ghosts of Jeju,” which he filmed in South Korea in 2012. Jeju is an eye-opening documentary about an island where the United States opened a naval base, causing great harm to the local ecosystem and indigenous people of Jeju, whose protests fell upon deaf ears.