Tag: NATO

• [Sharing] It’s Official: Ukraine Conflict is British ‘Proxy War’ – Kit Klarenberg

  On March 29th, the New York Times published a landmark investigation exposing how the US was “woven” into Ukraine’s battle with Russia “far more intimately and broadly than previously understood,” with Washington almost invariably serving as “the backbone of Ukrainian military operations.” The outlet went so far as to acknowledge the conflict was a “proxy…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  2 April 2025

  history, secret operations, ukraine

  afghanistan, andriykovalchuk, ATACMS, atlanticism, attrition, ballisticmissiles, benwallace, bigserge, bryansk, christopherdonahue, CIA, crimea, cruisemissiles, donaldtrump, donbass, drones, europe, foreignpolicy, france, germany, HIMARS, history, imperialism, intelligence, investigation, joebiden, journalism, keirstarmer, kerch, kharkov, kherson, kitklarenberg, kursk, kyrylobudanov, mines, NATO, NYT, operationgladio, panzer, pentagon, proxywar, russia, secretoperations, sevastopol, stormshadow, strategy, syria, tactics, tanks, taskforcedragon, terrorism, thegrayzone, UK, ukraine, US, valeriizaluzhnyi, vietnam, volodymyrzelenskyy, zaporozhye

• [Sharing] Even if the war ended tomorrow, Ukraine could end up broke by 2026 – Ian Proud, Responsible Statecraft

  There’s a gaping hole in Kyiv’s finances that no amount of tax increases or Western donations will be able to fill There is no plan in place to fund the Ukrainian budget after 2025. Even if the war ends by the summer of 2025, it will take some time to reduce military expenditures, leaving European…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  31 March 2025

  ukraine

  atlanticism, canada, deepstate, diplomacy, donaldtrump, donbass, europe, europeanunion, G7, history, ianproud, IMF, joebiden, kielinstitute, minsk, nationalism, NATO, proxywar, responsiblestatecraft, russia, saudiarabia, strategicculturefoundation, UK, ukraine, US, wilsoncenter, worldbank

• [Partage] Guerre d’Ukraine et menace russe : prétextes d’une marche forcée vers le fédéralisme européen – Éric Denécé, Cf2R

  […] en premier lieu, de nombreux éléments conduisent à penser que les Européens poursuivent la politique des néoconservateurs de l’ex-équipe Biden […] La Realpolitik, caractérisée par la prise en compte réaliste des rapports de force, est de retour à Washington. On le constate avec la démarche de Donald Trump qui a repris contact avec Vladimir…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  28 March 2025

  corruption, decline, fascism, secret operations, social struggles, ukraine

  acrimed, americafirst, antiwar.com, atlanticism, austria, barackobama, belgium, billclinton, bulgaria, calingeorgescu, censorship, Cf2R, china, corruption, coup, COVID, crimea, croatia, cyprus, czechrepublic, davidstockman, decline, deepstate, democracy, democraticparty, denmark, diplomacy, disinformation, dominiqueseux, donaldtrump, donbass, ECB, emmanuelmacron, ericdenece, estonia, etiennegernelle, europeanunion, fakenews, fascism, federalism, finland, france, gas, georgia, germany, giorgiameloni, GOP, greece, haroldbernat, hillaryclinton, history, hungary, inflation, intelligence, iraq, ireland, italy, jihad, joebiden, journalism, justice, kiev, latvia, law, lesechos, lithuania, luxembourg, maidan, malta, marcorubio, mariodraghi, mercenarism, middleeast, minsk, moldova, NATO, neocons, NGO, nordstream, olafscholz, patriotism, paulineperrenot, philosophy, poland, portugal, propaganda, proxywar, quartiergeneral, robertfico, romania, RTL, russia, salomezourabichvili, secretoperations, serbia, slovakia, slovenia, socialstruggles, southkorea, spain, statedept, strategy, subprimes, sweden, technocracy, terrorism, thegulf, thenetherlands, thomasfazi, UK, ukraine, US, USAID, uyghurs, values, viktororban, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, vonderleyen, warcrime, whitewashing, yoonsukyeol

• [Sharing] ‘Independent’ anti-Russia outlet Meduza faces collapse after US funding slashed – Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone

  After fervently denying that they relied on financial support from the US government, the supposedly “independent” Russian language paper Meduza has been thrown into existential crisis following the Trump administration’s pause on foreign development assistance Alexey Kovalev, a self-described “Russian journalist currently living in exile for fear of persecution back home,” had spent much of…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  19 March 2025

  corruption, fascism, secret operations, ukraine

  aaronmate, alexeykovalev, americafirst, atlanticism, censorship, CIA, corruption, crimea, cyberwarfare, democracy, disinformation, dmitrypolyansky, DOJ, donaldtrump, donbass, europe, europeanunion, fakenews, FARA, fascism, FBI, fordfoundation, foreignagents, foreignpolicy, galinatimchenko, georgesoros, germany, history, hollywood, ICC, intelligence, investigation, israel, ivangolunov, ivankolpakov, journalism, justice, karimkahn, kerch, kitklarenberg, law, leefang, london, maxblumenthal, mediazona, meduza, nationalism, NATO, NED, norway, opensociety, operationgladio, police, policemisconduct, pravyisektor, presstitutes, propaganda, proxywar, psyop, pussyriot, realclearinvestigations, regimechange, russia, russiatoday, secretoperations, socialmedia, statedept, strategy, telegram, terrorism, thegrayzone, thezincnetwork, twitter, UK, ukraine, unitednations, US, USAID, vladimirputin, warcrime, whitewashing

• [Sharing] The Minsk Agreements and why they failed – Ian Proud, Strategic Culture Foundation

  The Minsk agreements fell apart because delivering special status for the Donbas was politically too difficult in Ukraine The Minsk agreements fell apart because delivering special status for the Donbas was politically too difficult in Ukraine. And because sanctions policy against Russia both disincentivized their compliance, and actively incentivised Ukrainian non-compliance. Claiming that Russia reneged…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  16 March 2025

  fascism, ukraine

  aidarbattalion, angelamerkel, atlanticism, autonomy, ballisticmissiles, censorship, constitution, debaltsevo, democracy, diplomacy, disinformation, dmitrokuleba, DNR, donbass, donetsk, drones, europeanunion, fakenews, fascism, france, francoishollande, germany, humanitarianassistance, ianproud, ilovaisk, intelligence, journalism, justice, kiev, kramatorsk, law, LNR, lugansk, mercenarism, MH17, minsk, MLRS, nationalism, NATO, OSCE, petroporoshenko, PMC, propaganda, proxywar, radars, recce, referendum, retirement, russia, sanctions, satellites, severodonetsk, slavyansk, strategicculturefoundation, terrorism, tochka, UK, ukraine, unitednations, US, viktoryanukovych, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, wagner, warcrime, whitewashing

• [Partage] « Pensions ou munitions ? » : la fabrique du consentement à « l’effort de guerre » – Pauline Perrenot, Acrimed

  Depuis l’allocution d’Emmanuel Macron à propos de la guerre en Ukraine, le 5 mars, les grands médias sont en ordre de marche. Réhabilitation du président en « chef de guerre », patriotisme exacerbé, concert militariste et glorification des industriels de guerre… Mené tambour battant, le SAV du discours présidentiel s’accompagne d’une nouvelle séquence de matraquage patronal contre…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  14 March 2025

  fascism, history, social struggles, ukraine

  acrimed, AFP, alexandraschwartzbrod, andréglucksmann, atlanticism, benjaminhaddad, BPI, brunojeudy, capitalism, censorship, charlemagne, chauvinism, communism, COVID, dassault, denmark, disinformation, dominiqueseux, donbass, emmanuelmacron, etatfrancais, etiennegernelle, europe, europeanunion, fakenews, fannyguinochet, fascism, france, franceculture, franceinfo, francoisefressoz, francoislenglet, gaetandecapele, germany, guillaumetabard, history, humor, inflation, IPSOS, jonathanbouchetpetersen, journalism, latribune, lavoixdunord, lebienpublic, ledauphinelibere, lefigaro, lejournaldesaoneetloire, lemonde, leparisien, leprogres, lesechos, lestrepublicain, LFI, libe, lopinion, manuelbompard, MEDEF, mercenarism, mobilization, nationalism, NATO, neoliberalism, nicolasbaverez, nicolasbeytout, patriotism, paulineperrenot, philippepetain, poulbot, presstitutes, propaganda, proxywar, retirement, RMC, RTL, russia, salhiabrakhlia, secretoperations, socialstruggles, strategy, thinktank, tintin, ukraine, US, vichy, warcrime, whitewashing

• [Sharing] Paralyzed by acute dementia, Europe declares war on Russia all over again – Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture Foundation

  The SMO [Special Military Operation] will keep rollin’ on. And as the Europeans want it, to the last Ukrainian Let’s start with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Road to Damascus moment: Frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine and Russia, and it needs to come to an end…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  9 March 2025

  corruption, decline, fascism, history, ukraine

  aegis, AfD, airdefense, andreimartyanov, antonyblinken, arctic, atlanticism, atomic, balticstates, berezina, blackrock, canadiandimension, cannonfodder, capitalism, censorship, chauvinism, colonialism, corruption, crimea, cyberwarfare, decline, democracy, denmark, diplomacy, disinformation, donaldtrump, donaldtusk, donbass, emmanuelmacron, etatfrancais, eurasia, europe, europeanunion, fascism, france, franzkafka, friedrichmerz, FSB, gas, gaza, gazprom, genocide, germany, goetterdaemmerung, greenland, hegemony, history, hypersonicmissiles, ideology, ingoschmidt, intelligence, israel, jeffreysachs, joebiden, journalism, kerch, kitklarenberg, LGBT, marcorubio, mercenarism, mettefrederiksen, MIC, moliere, music, napoleonebuonaparte, nationalism, NATO, neoliberalism, nordstream, novorossiya, nuclear, oleksiiarestovych, operationgladio, oreshnik, patriot, patriotism, pepeescobar, philippepetain, poland, propaganda, proxywar, recce, richardwagner, russia, sanctions, satellites, SBIR, schutzstaffel, secretoperations, seymourhersh, sovietunion, sputnik, stalingrad, starlink, statedept, strategicculturefoundation, strategy, syria, tactics, terrorism, THAAD, thegrayzone, UK, ukraine, US, valdaiclub, vichy, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, vonderleyen, westasia, wokism, zircon

• [Sharing] Zelensky’s Oval Office Melt-Down – David Stockman, Antiwar.com

  It goes without saying that the Donald can never get enough of the limelight. But last Friday in a live Oval Office broadcast seen around the world that thirst for public attention may have actually changed the course of history. And very much for the good – even if the trigger was pulled by a…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  6 March 2025

  fascism, history, ukraine

  adolfhitler, antiwar.com, atlanticism, atomic, azovsea, balticstates, billclinton, blacksea, budapestmemorandum, bulgaria, cannonfodder, catherinethegreat, CIA, colorrevolution, communism, corruption, cossack, costarica, coup, crimea, cuba, czechrepublic, davidstockman, deepstate, democracy, diplomacy, dnieper, dnipro, donaldtrump, donbass, donetsk, dwightdeisenhower, estonia, europeanunion, fascism, galicia, georgefkennan, georgehwbush, germany, GOP, grigorypotemkin, history, hungary, imperialism, intelligence, ivankatchanovski, jamesbaker, joebiden, johnfitzgeraldkennedy, johnkerry, josephstalin, kiev, korea, latvia, leonidkravchuk, leonidkuchma, lithuania, lugansk, lviv, mariupol, maxabrahms, MIC, middleeast, mikhailgorbachev, moldova, nationalism, NATO, NED, neocons, nikitakhrushchev, novorossiya, nuclear, odessa, olehtyahnybok, ottoman, paulmanafort, perspectivesonterrorism, petroporoshenko, poland, proxywar, ramstein, regimechange, revolution, russia, russophobia, sovietunion, statedept, stepanbandera, strategy, svoboda, thegulf, UK, ukraine, uniparty, US, victorianuland, viktoryanukovych, vladimirlenin, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, washingtondc, yuliatymoshenko, zaporozhye

• [Sharing] Zelensky’s friend list dwindling in the Trump White House as peace talk tensions escalate: ‘Best case is that he leaves to France immediately’ – Diana Glebova & Steven Nelson, New York Post

  WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has few — if any — advocates in President Trump’s inner circle as the pair’s souring relationship threatens to tank Kyiv’s standing in peace talks with Russia. The ever-tenuous relationship between the two leaders descended into open hostility this week after Ukraine’s president rejected an initial US proposal to…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  21 February 2025

  corruption, ukraine

  argentina, atlanticism, brookesingman, burisma, caitlindoornbos, censorship, corruption, democracy, democraticparty, dianaglebova, diplomacy, disinformation, donaldtrump, donbass, elonmusk, emmanuelmacron, fakenews, fascism, FBI, foxnews, france, gas, giorgiameloni, GOP, history, hunterbiden, investigation, italy, javiermilei, jdvance, joebiden, mikewaltz, NATO, popefrancis, proxywar, rareearths, russia, saudiarabia, scottbessent, stevennelson, thenewyorkpost, tuckercarlson, UK, ukraine, US, vladimirputin, vogue, volodymyrzelenskyy, warcrime, whitewashing, winstonchurchill

• [Sharing] ‘Aiding chaos’: USAID’s role in engineering regime change, social unrest worldwide – Maryam Qarehgozlou, Press TV

  After President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending all US foreign aid programs, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has again come under intense scrutiny This renewed attention casts a spotlight on USAID’s history of fomenting unrest and orchestrating “regime change” worldwide since it was established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. On January 21, on his first day…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  17 February 2025

  assassination, corruption, history, jihad, revolution, secret operations, social struggles, ukraine

  afghanistan, afshinrattansi, alqaeda, americafirst, antiwar.com, arabworld, assassination, atlanticism, augustopinochet, barackobama, basharassad, bolivia, capitalism, caracas, carlnichols, carlosvecchio, CATO, chile, CIA, CIS, CNN, congress, constitution, corruption, costarica, coup, cuba, cyberwarfare, davidstockman, deepstate, democracy, diosdadocabello, DNI, DOGE, donaldtrump, donbass, drones, egypt, elonmusk, elsalvador, europeanunion, evagolinger, evomorales, facebook, geoffreyrpyatt, georgewbush, georgianlegion, geraldford, haiti, history, HIV, hugochavez, humanitarianassistance, imperialism, intelligence, investigation, israel, jamesli, jeanbertrandaristide, jihad, johnfitzgeraldkennedy, journalism, juanguaido, justice, kabul, kiev, latinamerica, law, leopoldolopez, maidan, marcorubio, maryamqarehgozlou, mercenarism, michaelflynn, middleeast, mylordbobeo, NATO, nayibbukele, NED, neocons, neoliberalism, NGO, nicolasmaduro, oil, oliverstone, pedrocarmona, peru, presstv, propaganda, proxywar, PSUV, regimechange, revolution, richardnixon, robertfico, robertfkennedy, russia, salvadorallende, santiago, secretoperations, slovakia, socialmedia, socialstruggles, statedept, strategy, syria, taliban, tedgalencarpenter, terrorism, thegulf, tuckercarlson, tulsigabbard, twitter, ukraine, US, USAID, USAIDOTI, USSOF, venezuela, victorianuland, viktoryanukovych, vitaliklitschko, whistleblowing, whitehelmets, wikileaks, williambrownfield, zunzuneo