Pokrovsk was crucial in slowing Moscow’s advance. However, Russian forces have now captured several suburbs, and are tightening their noose around the city. Kiev must now make a difficult decision – between a defensive battle, which would involve heavy losses, or withdrawal.
Leo Hohmann on the wider implications of of Russia’s successful test of the Poseidon underwater drone
Putin isn’t going to back down, says former U.S. intelligence analyst Larry Johnson. Nor is the Russian leader bluffing, as NATO’s belligerence toward Moscow sounds like the threats of someone on a terminal mission
This provides the perfect pretext for the imposistion of martial law
Meanwhile the most popular figure in French politics is Jordan Bardell, the head of the National Rally party, and just behind him his mentor and party figurehead, Marine Le Pen
Grassroots anger is building in Britain over “two tier policing”, Starmer’s open borders asylum policy and the authorities inability to deal with the crime wave that has followed
The US should step away from the abyss of nuclear war, while this is still possible, writes Israel Shamir. There is a strong demand in Russian politics for a nuclear response to Western provocations, not stopping at the Western border of the Ukraine, but going all the way west.
Coming from Belgium’s defence minister – a non-nuclear power – this clearly indicates the sort of delusional thinking prevailing among the West’s political elite
Russian president says Poseidon weapon exceeds power of SATAN II intercontinental missile. Giving Russia the ability to wreak havoc on adversaries’ coastlines
Should we trust any laws that undermine the right of the parent by assuming the state has responsibility for our children?
As a video of him in Japan reveals, Trump is starting to look every bit as clueless as Biden
The US can make threats, impose sanctions and amass war machinery, but you don’t truly know they’re serious about attacking a country until they start churning out Pentagon propaganda in the mainstream press.