Tag: pentagon

• [Sharing] No respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ rises – Pepe Escobar, The Cradle

  Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs By adding two new African member-states to its roster, last week’s summit in Johannesburg heralding the expanded…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  6 September 2023

  africa liberation, BRICS, revolution, social struggles

  911, abdourahamanetchiani, ACFTA, africa, africaliberation, africanunion, AFRICOM, agadez, alexanderlukashenko, algeria, alibongo, alqaeda, AQIM, assassination, bank, belarus, beltandroadinitiative, bokoharam, bouygues, BRICS, bridgeandbeltinitiative, burkinafaso, caliphate, cameroon, canada, CAR, CFA, chad, charlesdegaulle, china, CIA, colonialism, congo, democracy, dickcheney, diplomacy, djibouti, drones, EAEU, ECB, ECOWAS, emmanuelmacron, eramet, eurasianism, europe, europeanunion, francafrique, france, G5Sahel, gabon, gas, germany, guinea, hillaryclinton, ibrahimtraore, intelligence, ISIS, ivorycoast, jihad, kazakhstan, libreville, libya, mali, michaelhudson, muammargaddafi, multipolarworld, NATO, niger, nigeria, nordstream, norway, OPEC, PAPSS, paulbiya, pentagon, pepeescobar, propaganda, proxywar, revolution, russia, sahara, sahel, saudiarabia, SCO, socialstruggles, southafrica, terrorism, thecradle, thomassankara, total, uranium, US, venezuela, vincentbollore, vinci, yevgenyprigozhin

• [Sharing] Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice – Big Serge

  The Zaporizhia Summer Blockbuster It has been a while since I published anything long-form commenting on the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, and I confess that writing this article gave me a modicum of trouble. Ukraine’s much anticipated grand summer counteroffensive has now been underway for about eighty days with little to show for it. The summer…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  31 August 2023

  history, ukraine

  abrams, airdefense, APC, artemovsk, asymmetric, ATACMS, ATGM, attrition, bakhmut, belgorod, berdyansk, bigserge, blacksea, busification, cannonfodder, challenger, clustermunitions, crimea, davidglantz, dmitrymedvedev, dnieper, donbass, donetsk, drones, EW, geran, germany, GMLRS, hannamaliar, HIMARS, history, HUR, IFV, intelligence, iran, iraq, ISR, joebiden, kakhovka, kerch, kharkov, kherson, kursk, kyrylobudanov, lancet, leopard, lugansk, M55, marder, melitopol, mines, mobilization, moscow, NATO, novayakakhovka, OPORD, OPSEC, orekhov, panzer, pentagon, peterzeihan, propaganda, proxywar, rabotino, recce, russia, shahed136, slovenia, sovietunion, starobelsk, strategy, stryker, svatovo, syria, tanks, tokmak, tula, ukraine, US, velykanovosyolka, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, voronezh, zaporozhye

• [Sharing] The West Must Prepare for a Long Overdue Reckoning – Chandran Nair, The National Interest

  Five major trends illustrate how the world is changing, and that the West must grapple with the reality that it can no longer impose its “leadership” on the world as it once did. The post-Western, multipolar international order is coming to pass. As the world grapples with the implications of this shift in power, the…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  13 June 2023

  BRICS, history, ukraine

  afghanistan, africa, arabworld, atlanticism, australia, BRICS, burjkhalifa, chandrannair, china, civilization, climatechange, colonialism, decline, dedollarization, diplomacy, disinformation, dollar, dubai, europe, G7, hegemony, history, hongkong, india, indonesia, iran, jokowidodo, journalism, luladasilva, multipolarworld, myanmar, narendramodi, NATO, newworldorder, nordstream, palestine, pentagon, petervanburen, propaganda, racism, russia, sanctions, saudiarabia, siliconvalleybank, socialmedia, SWIFT, taiwan, terrorism, theamericanconservative, thenationalinterest, UAE, UK, ukraine, unipolarworld, US, venezuela

• [Sharing] A War Like No Other – Peter Van Buren, the American Conservative

  The Biden doctrine is a cynical effort to cash in on the blood of another nation Joe Biden created for the U.S. a war like no other, one where others die and the U.S. simply sits back and pays the bills on a gargantuan scale. No attempts are made at diplomacy by the Americans, and…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  12 June 2023

  history, ukraine

  1984, afghanistan, barackobama, blackrock, cannonfodder, china, diplomacy, drones, europe, F-16, genocide, georgeorwell, goldmansachs, HIMARS, history, iraq, joebiden, jpmorgan, lancet, M777, NATO, nikolaev, NYT, pentagon, petervanburen, poland, proxywar, romania, russia, sovietunion, strategy, terrorism, theamericanconservative, ukraine, US, vietnam, volodymyrzelenskyy, WEF, yemen

• Du rififi dans le petit monde “intellectuel” français

  Plenel outragé, Plenel brisé, Plenel martyrisé Scandale en France, le symbole, c’est ainsi qu’Edwy Plenel parle de lui-même, a été agressé par la réactionnaire Maïwenn Le Besco, alors même que des footballeurs professionnels osent refuser de porter brassards et flocages LGBT lors de la Journée mondiale contre l’homophobie. La république vacille et je reconnais bien…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  19 May 2023

  corruption, secret operations, ukraine

  airdefense, cannes, CIA, cinema, CNN, corruption, democraticparty, disinformation, DST, edwyplenel, europe, europeanunion, football, france, francoismitterrand, gillesmenage, hypersonicmissiles, intelligence, johnnydepp, journalism, justice, kiev, kinzhal, law, lefigaro, lemonde, LGBT, libya, maiwenn, mediapart, NATO, nordstream, patriot, pentagon, policemisconduct, racism, SBU, seymourhersh, strategy, syria, terrorism, ukraine, variety, wiretapping

• The Atlanticist “counter-offensive”

  the last NATO attempt to avoid defeat in its proxy war in Donbass and Ukraine, against Russia The countdown of the Atlanticist defeat in Bakhmut The fighting is going on in Bakhmut and in the evening, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Wagner private military company (PMC), states that the Atlanticist forces are controlling less than two…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  11 May 2023

  corruption, fascism, history, social struggles, ukraine

  afghanistan, AFP, africa, AFV, airdefense, alexanderkots, alexanderlukashenko, alexandersladkov, alexeylevkin, alexgallant, AMX-10RC, andreevka, anthonyradakin, antonyblinken, APC, armansoldin, artemovsk, ARV, ascot, asgardsrei, ASPI, asymmetric, ATACMS, ATGM, atlanticism, atomic, australia, avdeevka, azov, bakhmut, balkenkreuz, ballisticmissiles, balticstates, belarus, belgorod, benwallace, berdyansk, berlin, BFMTV, bild, blacksea, blagodatnoye, blitzkrieg, blockade, BMP, bosphorus, bradley, bucha, bulgaria, busification, caesar, canada, cannonfodder, CCM, censorship, chasovyar, cherkasy, chernigov, china, chongar, christophercavoli, clustermunitions, colonialism, comics, congress, corruption, corsica, coup, crimea, croatia, cruisemissiles, deepstate, defenceintelligence, democracy, deniskapustin, dickblack, dirtybomb, disinformation, dmitrokuleba, dmitrypeskov, dmitryutkin, dnieper, DNR, donbass, donetsk, drones, DU, DUAP, elonmusk, EMSC, energodar, europe, europeanunion, fakenews, falseflag, fascism, finland, francafrique, france, FSB, gamma, gaza, genichesk, genocide, geran, germany, globalhawk, GLSDB, GMLRS, GOP, graincorridor, grayvoron, groza, GRU, gustaveflaubert, hannamaliar, HIMARS, history, humor, humvee, hungary, HUR, hypersonicmissiles, IAEA, iantortorici, IFV, ihormosiychuk, ihorzhovkva, Il-76, illiakyva, intelligence, investigation, iraq, irradiation, iskander, israel, italy, ivankhurs, jakesullivan, joebiden, journalism, justice, kerch, kharkov, kherson, khmelnytskyi, kiev, kinzhal, kleshcheevka, konstantinovka, korotich, kramatorsk, krasnoarmeysk, krasnodar, krivoyrog, kupyansk, kursk, kyivstar, kyrylobudanov, law, leopard, levigodman, lithuania, LNR, lugansk, M113, M777, maidan, marinka, mariupol, masskilling, maxar, maxxpro, melitopol, mercenarism, mines, MISE, mobilization, moscow, MRAP, mutiny, napoleonebuonaparte, nationalism, NATO, neskuchnoye, nikolaev, nordstream, novayakakhovka, novodaryevka, novodonetskoye, novorossiysk, NSBM, NSC, nuclear, NYC, NYT, odessa, olafscholz, oleksandrsyrskyi, oleksiireznikov, oleksiytitarenko, olenegorskygornyak, onyx, orekhov, panzer, patriot, pentagon, petrograd, petroporoshenko, planetlabs, plutocracy, PMC, pokrovsk, poland, police, priazovye, propaganda, proxywar, pskov, psyop, pyatikhatki, rabotino, radiation, rafaelgrossi, ranger, raytheon, RDK, recce, renatkarchaa, rianovosti, romania, rosenergoatom, rostislavzhuravlev, rostov, russia, russophobia, rustemumerov, S-200, sahel, salammbo, SAM, satellites, SBU, SCALP, schutzstaffel, scottritter, semiconductor, sergeyshoigu, sevastopol, shebekino, sig, SIGINT, skynews, slovakia, socialmedia, socialstruggles, SOF, soltsy, southafrica, sovietunion, spain, spartan, SSO, stalino, starokonstantinov, stepanbandera, stormshadow, stosstruppen, strassburg, strategy, stryker, su-24, svoboda, svobodarossii, T-62, tactics, taganrog, taman, tanks, tatars, taurus, terrorism, theguardian, tochka, tokmak, tradytsiyataporyadok, Tu-22M, turkey, tver, twitter, ugledar, UK, ukraine, unitednations, US, USEC, USMC, USV, VAB, valeriizaluzhnyi, vasilyevka, VBIED, velikynovgorod, velykanovosyolka, vergeltungswaffen, victorybanner, vilnius, vishnya, vladimirputin, volkssturm, volodymyrzelenskyy, vonderleyen, voronezh, waffenss, wagner, warcrime, warsaw, wartears, wunderwaffen, yevgenyprigozhin, yurikasyanov, yuryivanov, zaporozhye, ZNPP

• Daily pictures : pretty Devushka

  Western hysteria after the humiliating Pentagon leaks After the funny leak of classified documents from the Pentagon, the Wall Street Journal has reported Sarah Bils on April 16, 2023. The 37-year-old woman is a former non commissioned officer (NCO) within the Navy, now civilian in Washington state and one host, among others, of top notch…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  18 April 2023

  history, ukraine

  atlanticism, bellingcat, donbass, donbassdevushka, europe, guydebord, history, imperialism, intelligence, journalism, lugansk, mccarthyism, NAFO, NATO, NCO, pentagon, propaganda, russia, salemtrials, sarahbeals, telegram, ukraine, US, USNavy, washingtonstate, WSJ

• [Sharing] Russo-Ukrainian War: Leak Biopsy – Big Serge

  A Russian Nesting Doll of Embarrassment […] If they [the leaked classified US military intelligence document] are indeed authentic (and it appears that they are), they offer important insight into force generation and combat power in Ukraine – and perhaps even more importantly, into the intelligence framework that the Pentagon is working with. None of…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  17 April 2023

  ukraine

  abrams, airdefense, APC, artemovsk, atlanticism, bakhmut, bigserge, buk, DNR, donbass, donetsk, GMLRS, HIMARS, IFV, intelligence, leopard, NATO, panzer, pentagon, propaganda, russia, S-300, stryker, tanks, ukraine, US

• [Sharing] How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor’s Putin arrest warrant – Max Blumenthal, the Grayzone

  [the genesis of a judicial scam] ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev — and Hollywood. Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  17 April 2023

  corruption, fascism, ukraine

  afghanistan, amalclooney, assassination, atlanticism, auschwitz, barackobama, bellingcat, billclinton, billgates, bokoharam, bucha, collaborationism, corruption, coup, darfur, denmark, disinformation, dmitrikostrin, dominicraab, donbass, donetsk, eurojust, europeanunion, falseflag, fascism, fatoubensouda, foundationforjustice, gaza, genocide, georgeclooney, georgesoros, georgewbush, germany, hillaryclinton, hollywood, HRL, HRW, ICC, imranahmadkhan, intelligence, investigation, iraq, irinavenediktova, israel, jennifergibson, jeremyhunt, jeremyloffredo, joebiden, johnbolton, josephkony, journalism, julianassange, justice, karimkahn, kharkov, kramatorsk, law, lebanon, lindseygraham, london, lugansk, lviv, mariaelenavignoli, maxblumenthal, merrickgarland, michelleobama, microsoft, mikepompeo, mykhailopodalyak, nathanielraymond, NATO, nicolasmaduro, nigeria, omarbashir, palestine, pentagon, philippawebb, poland, propaganda, proxywar, regimechange, russia, shaharzadakbar, siberia, statedept, sudan, taliban, terrorism, thegrayzone, thehague, thenetherlands, tochka, uganda, UK, ukraine, unitedforjustice, unitednations, US, venezuela, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, warcrime, wikileaks, woepkehoekstra, yelenovka

• [Sharing] US urged to explain Nord Stream blasts after Pulitzer winner’s probe – Wang Qi, Global Times

  [I guess that the US security agencies are striving to identify Seymour Hersh’s source. The officials are denying but who could still believe them, after the lie about WMD in Iraq and many other denies ?] Six months after the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipelines which shocked the world, an article by veteran…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  9 February 2023

  history, secret operations, ukraine

  adriennewatson, antonyblinken, china, CIA, denmark, disinformation, europe, europeanunion, fakenews, globaltimes, history, humor, intelligence, investigation, iraq, joebiden, journalism, lihaidong, liztruss, luxiang, mariazakharova, mylai, NATO, nordstream, norway, NSC, NYT, pentagon, poland, proxy, russia, secretoperations, seymourhersh, sputnik, strategy, substack, sweden, terrorism, thewashingtonpost, UK, ukraine, US, vietnam, VPN, wangqi, warcrime, WMD