ALEKS—Russia, and back then the Soviet Union, was preparing for decades for a war with the West. Therefore, it built up strategic arsenals and depots to sustain months of fighting with the whole of NATO, without [having to] produce a single further piece. For example, you can take into account one of these arsenals, which is guarded by Russian troops in Transnistria. But there are numerous [like it], across Russia.
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Despite being the largest and most powerful empire in history, the US, like Britain, essentially a thalassocracy, is falling apart probably as a result of its own belief in eternal supremacy, and the rule of mediocre or plainly stupid administrators, both at its center and in its far-flung vassal states.
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FRANK SCOTT—While a new administration presides over what many hoped would be a return to normal after the even more blatant and open worship of wealth, war and Israel of the Trump regime, what’s missed is that what passes for normal is what needs radical change. As long as market normalcy in the USA means hundreds of thousands are homeless, millions are living in poverty and millions more than that are so much deeper in debt than ever before in our history that the World Bank warns of the possibility of social collapse.
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JOHN RACHEL—Margaret Kimberley is Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report. Her book, “Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents” was published in 2020 by Steerforth Press. She is a recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism, and the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press’ 2021 Women in Media Award. And she is also a board member of Consortium News. Ms. Kimberley is a contributor to the anthologies “In Defense of Julian Assange,” “Capitalism on a Ventilator: the Impact of COVID-19 on China and the U.S.,” and “Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence.”
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COL. DOUGLAS MACGREGOR—Col. Douglas Macgregor (USA-R) evaluates the dismal situation faced by the Kiev regime, as Russia tightens its strategic hold over Ukraine.
