Tag: sanctions

• [Sharing] Declassified: CIA’s Covert Ukraine Invasion Plan – Kit Klarenberg

  On August 7th, US polling giant Gallup published the remarkable results of a survey of Ukrainians. Public support for Kiev “fighting until victory” has plummeted to a record low “across all segments” of the population, “regardless of region or demographic group.” In a “nearly complete reversal from public opinion in 2022,” 69% of citizens “favor…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  17 August 2025

  fascism, history, secret operations, ukraine

  andreyzhuravlev, atlanticism, azov, belarus, chrisdonnelly, CIA, communism, counterpunch, coup, crimea, democracy, desna, dnieper, donaldtrump, donbass, ECHR, EPER, ethniccleansing, europe, europeanunion, falseflag, fascism, football, france, freedomfighters, gabrielrockhill, gallup, genocide, germany, guerilla, history, hooliganism, hugodionisio, imperialism, instituteforstatecraft, intelligence, investigation, irynafarion, justice, kerch, kiev, kitklarenberg, lviv, maidan, maryamqarehgozlou, masskilling, MI6, militarywatchmagazine, nationalism, NATO, neoliberalism, odessa, operationgladio, patricklawrence, poland, polesia, police, policemisconduct, pravyisektor, presstv, propaganda, proxywar, referendum, regimechange, resistance, rivne, russia, sanctions, scheerpost, secretoperations, SOF, sovietunion, statedept, stepanbandera, strategicculturefoundation, strategy, tactics, tatars, terrorism, thegrayzone, transcarpathia, UK, ukraine, ultras, UNR, UPA, US, USAID, vatican, victory80, volodymyrzelenskyy, volyn, warcrime, warsawpact, zvezda

• The British intelligence is planning secret operations of sabotage in order to trigger the overt and shameless Western piracy of tankers transporting Russian oil

  On August 4, 2025, the Russian State news agency, TASS, wrote The UK’s secret services are planning to enlist NATO allies in a large-scale operation targeting the “shadow fleet,” which could lead to an environmental disaster in international waters, the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in a statement obtained by…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  5 August 2025

  secret operations, ukraine

  AI, atlanticism, attrition, blaisemetreweli, censorship, chaybowes, china, diplomacy, disinformation, dmitrypeskov, donaldtrump, donbass, donetsk, europeanunion, fakenews, fascism, grok, imperialism, india, intelligence, investigation, ireland, joebiden, johnlecarre, journalism, kherson, lindseygraham, lugansk, MI6, NATO, nordstream, oil, piracy, politico, propaganda, proxywar, psyop, richardblumenthal, russia, sanctions, secretoperations, shadowfleet, socialmedia, stevewitkoff, SVR, sweden, TASS, terrorism, thedailymail, thefinancialtimes, turkey, twitter, UK, ukraine, US, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, warcrime, whitewashing, windward.ai, zaporozhye

• [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…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  2 August 2025

  africa liberation, corruption, decline, fascism, jihad, syria, ukraine

  adolfhitler, africa, africaliberation, andrewkorybko, atlanticism, atomic, balticstates, brianmcdonald, caucasus, censorship, china, colonialism, corruption, COVID, declanhayes, decline, disinformation, donbass, eldarmamedov, elonmusk, emmanueltodd, europe, europeanunion, fakenews, fascism, france, germany, hacking, hegemony, hungary, imperialism, india, intelligence, ireland, johnmccain, journalism, juliaioffe, kitklarenberg, lukeharding, mali, markgaleotti, mashagessen, multipolarworld, NATO, neocons, nuclear, oil, orientalreview, plutocracy, poland, propaganda, proxywar, responsiblestatecraft, russia, russiagate, russophobia, russophrenia, sanctions, scottritter, secretoperations, strategicculturefoundation, strategy, syria, theatlantic, theguardian, turkey, UK, ukraine, unipolarworld, US, victory80, vladimirputin, warcrime, whitewashing

• Daily pictures: Israel is the Middle Eastern boil of Western imperialism

  the novelty is that the corrupt West is showing signs of sepsis The man at left is Ahmed al Sharaa, nom de guerre Muhammad al Julani, a jihadist warlord. He is leading since 2012 the Syrian branch of al Qaeda, became dictator in December 2024 of the new West-friendly emirate in former secular Syria, where…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  9 July 2025

  assassination, corruption, decline, fascism, history, israel, jihad, syria

  911, afghanistan, aljazeera, alnusra, alqaeda, assassination, basharassad, benjaminnetanyahu, caitlinjohnstone, caliphate, censorship, china, civilization, CNN, colonialism, corruption, decline, disinformation, donaldtrump, emmanuelmacron, ethniccleansing, europe, fascism, france, francescaalbanese, gaza, genocide, history, HTS, humanrights, imperialism, iran, iraq, ISIS, israel, italy, jihad, johnmearsheimer, journalism, justice, kitklarenberg, law, marcorubio, masskilling, middleeast, muhammadaljulani, neocons, NYC, osamabinladen, palestine, paris, parisattacks, poland, propaganda, proxywar, qasemsoleimani, qatar, racism, resistance, sanctions, secularism, sovietunion, sunnism, supremacism, syria, terrorism, theindependent, UK, unitednations, US, uyghurs, values, warcrime, whitewashing, zionism

• L’Assemblea di Corsica ricunnosce l’esistenza di u Statu di Palestina

  in cunfurmità cù e disposizioni precedenti di l’ONU U 27 di ghjugnu di u 2025, à l’iniziativa di a so presidente Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, l’Assemblea di Corsica adotta a muzione 2025/E3/018, chì ricunnosce l’esistenza di u Statu di Palestina. dénonce les exactions commises par le gouvernement israélien ainsi que les « actes potentiellement génocidaires » à…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  28 June 2025

  corsica, fascism, history, israel, social struggles

  antisemitism, assembleadicorsica, autonomy, benjaminnetanyahu, censorship, colonialism, corsica, corti, disinformation, etatfrancais, ethniccleansing, europeanunion, fascism, FLNC, france, francoisxavierceccoli, gaza, genocide, germany, ghjurnateinternazionale, hamas, history, humanrights, ICC, identity, internationallaw, islamophobia, israel, italy, justice, law, lesrepublicains, marieantoinettemaupertuis, masskilling, middleeast, morocco, mossapalatina, nationalism, NATO, neoliberalism, palestine, philippepetain, propaganda, racism, rassemblementnational, resistance, sanctions, sardegna, schutzstaffel, socialstruggles, supremacism, tradeunion, unitednations, vichy, waffenss, 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

• [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] Germany’s new right: Trading on nostalgia for past prosperity in an age of uncertainty – Ingo Schmidt, Canadian Dimension

  Ingo Schmidt on how the triumph of liberal democracy and neoliberal globalization became the ideological seed for the AfD On November 6, 2024 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner. Notwithstanding the broad agreement on policy goals, striking a balance between deficit reduction, support for renewable energy and increased arms spending turned out…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  5 February 2025

  decline, fascism, history, social struggles, ukraine

  AfD, aliceweidel, americafirst, angelamerkel, antifa, athabascauniversity, atlanticism, austria, basharassad, benjaminnetanyahu, berlin, bodoramelow, brandenburg, BRD, brettonwoods, brexit, BSW, busification, canadiandimension, capitalism, CDU, china, christianlindner, coal, communism, coup, COVID, davidricardo, DDR, decline, democracy, denmark, diegruenen, dielinke, dietmarwoidke, donaldtrump, donbass, eurocrats, europe, europeanunion, fascism, FDP, france, francoismitterrand, gas, gaza, gerhardschroeder, germany, glasnost, guychazan, hansgeorgmaassen, hegemony, helmutkohl, helmutschmidt, history, humor, ideology, imperialism, inflation, ingoschmidt, intelligence, investigation, israel, joebiden, johannesbecher, joschkafischer, journalism, karlmarx, keynesianism, kiev, londondebtagreement, lumpenproletariat, maastrichttreaty, madeleinealbright, maidan, margaretthatcher, migration, minsk, mitbestimmung, moelln, nationalism, NATO, neoliberalism, nordstream, NSU, oil, olafscholz, ordoliberalismus, oskarlafontaine, oswaldspengler, palestine, PDS, pinzuti, propaganda, proxywar, racism, recession, resistance, revisionism, rostock, russia, russophobia, sachsen, sahrawagenknecht, sanctions, SED, shadoks, socialdemocracy, socialstruggles, solingen, sovietunion, SPD, stasi, strategicculturefoundation, strategy, supremacism, sweden, syria, terrorism, thefinancialtimes, thenetherlands, thueringen, UK, ukraine, US, volodymyrzelenskyy, willybrandt, yugoslavia

• [Sharing] Media Changes Narrative as the Ukrainian Proxy War is Coming to an End – Glenn Diesen

  This article includes some excerpts from my book: “The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order” The Economist reports that “Russia is slicing through Ukrainian defences” and Ukraine is subsequently “struggling to survive”. Across the Western media, the public is prepared for defeat and painful concessions in future negotiations. The media is changing the narrative…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  26 January 2025

  history, secret operations, ukraine

  aaronmate, afghanistan, atlanticism, attrition, borisjohnson, cannonfodder, censorship, chasfreeman, china, CIA, dancrenshaw, davidignatius, democracy, diplomacy, disinformation, donaldtrump, donbass, eurasia, europe, europeanunion, fakenews, fascism, glenndiesen, hegemony, history, imperialism, intelligence, istanbul, jamesheappey, jensstoltenberg, joebiden, journalism, keithkellogg, leonpanetta, lindseygraham, lloydaustin, lviv, minsk, mitchmcconnell, mittromney, mobilization, multipolarworld, NATO, neoliberalism, nordstream, postmodernism, posttruth, propaganda, proxywar, RAND, regimechange, richardblumenthal, russia, russiagate, sanctions, seanbell, secretoperations, sovietunion, statedept, strategy, terrorism, theeconomist, thegrayzone, thewashingtonpost, UK, ukraine, unipolarworld, US, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, warcrime, whitewashing

• [Sharing] Total Kievan Debellation – Big Serge

  The Russo-Ukrainian War: Year 3 On March 5, 2022, the wreck of the sailing ship Endurance was found in the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. This, of course, was the vessel lost in Ernest Shackelton’s third expedition to Antarctica, which became trapped in the ice and sank in 1915. The…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  15 January 2025

  corruption, history, ukraine

  abrams, airdefense, andreevka, annedekiev, antarctica, antiwar.com, artemovsk, ATACMS, atlanticism, attrition, avdeevka, azovsea, bakhmut, ballisticmissiles, belgium, bigserge, bolshoesoldatskoe, busification, cannonfodder, censorship, challenger, cinema, communism, corruption, crimea, cruisemissiles, davidstockman, disinformation, dnieper, dnipro, DNR, donaldtrump, donbass, donetsk, drones, endurance, ernestshackelton, europe, EW, F-16, fakenews, fascism, france, geran, germany, GPS, grodovka, groundhogday, history, hypersonicmissiles, IFV, intelligence, IRBM, JASSM, kalibr, kharkov, kherson, kielinstitute, konstantinovka, korea, korenovo, krasnogorovka, kurakhovo, kurskvostochny, kusk, leopard, lisichansk, LNR, lugansk, madmax, mariupol, middleeast, mobilization, NATO, neocons, ocheretino, odessa, oreshnik, oskol, panzer, pentagon, PMC, pokrovsk, propaganda, proxywar, robertkagan, russia, sanctions, schutzstaffel, SEADDEAD, selidovo, severodonetsk, sherman, SLAM, snagost, socialmedia, southgeorgiaisland, sovietunion, stormshadow, strategy, stromness, su-24, sudzha, sumy, T-34, tactics, tanks, thegulf, tomahawk, toretsk, twitter, ugledar, UK, ukraine, US, velykanovosyolka, volodymyrzelenskyy, waffenss, wagner, warcrime, weddellsea, wehrmacht, whitewashing, zaporozhye