Category: ukraine
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[Sharing] Russophrenia: the West’s favourite delusion about Russia – Brian McDonald
Ten years after I coined the term, the media’s still convinced Russia is both collapsing, and conquering the world There’s a peculiar affliction that’s gripped the Western commentariat for decades now. I first diagnosed it in June 2015 and gave it a name: Russophrenia. The tell-tale sign? That deep-set conviction that Russia’s about to keel…
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[Sharing] Drug cartel operatives snuck into Ukraine for drone training: report – Linus Höller, DefenseNews
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ukrainian counterintelligence services are investigating the infiltration of Latin American drug cartel members into the country’s International Legion, with operatives seeking advanced drone training to later deploy against rivals and security forces in their home countries. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) launched a joint investigation with military intelligence after Mexico’s…
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[Partage] La Russie est notre Rorschach – Emmanuel Todd
En avril dernier, interrogé par une chaîne de télévision russe sur la russophobie occidentale, j’avais eu une illumination. J’avais à peu près répondu : cela va vous être désagréable d’entendre ça, mais notre russophobie n’a aucun rapport avec vous. C’est un fantasme, une pathologie des sociétés occidentales, un besoin endogène d’imaginer un monstre russe. Pour…
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History, on this day: Kisielin
a day of remembrance in Poland but a problem for revisionist Europe The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) is formed on October 14, 1942, in Nazi occupied Poland and Ukraine, as the military branch of the faction that Stepan Bandera is leading within the fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) On July 11, 1943, with reinforcement…
