MICHAEL WALSH EDITORIAL 22.00 21 February 2022: Throughout the newly independent republics Lugansk and Donbass, like Crimea formerly part of Ukraine, there is wild rejoicing as Putin’s Russia declares both massive regions independent. It is fair to assume that the world at large is jubilant as Moscow cries ‘checkmate’.
I REST MY CASE is the appropriate term: The 1963 killing of the iconic US president has pored over many times. But one man thinks the truth is in plain sight and irrefutable. Dr Cyril Wecht is no-nonsense, blunt and he never shirks voicing an opinion. When I spoke to him about his new book, ‘The JFK Assassination Dissected,’ I was forewarned that, despite being a nonagenarian, he’s still a formidable presence.
When the panic phase is over, there should be a retrospective analysis of why large, very well-known foreign media outlets spread fake news, says David Arakhamia. The chairman of Ukraine’s Servant of the People party, David Arakhamia, has accused some U.S. media outlets of spreading ‘blatant fake news’ about the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A senior Russian lawmaker has revived discussion about how Russia could level the playing field by basing Russian military equipment close to the United States to balance out NATO forces positioned near Russia’s borders despite promises made on March 6, 1991according to documents published in Der Spiegel (The Mirror) today.
America’s wilful ignorance of atrocities being committed against Russian-speaking people in Ukraine is causing outrage and indignation in Moscow and is an example of Washington’s double standards, Russia’s ambassador to the US claimed on Thursday.
A document confirms US told Russia NATO won’t expand. Russian President Vladimir Putin was right, NATO head Stoltenberg lied: NATO brazenly deceived Russia about NATO expansion. A newly discovered document from March 1991 shows US, UK, French, and German officials discussing a pledge made to Russia that NATO will not expand to Poland and beyond. Its publication by the German magazine Der Spiegel on Friday unarguably proves Moscow right and NATO wrong on the matter.
MOSCOW, 17 February 2022: Maria Zakharova called the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s assessments of mass graves in Donbas blasphemy. Statements by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about mass graves of civilians in Donbas are irresponsible and blasphemous. This was announced on February 17 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
Numerous outlets had suggested that Moscow would invade Ukraine on Wednesday morning. The spokesperson for Russia’s foreign ministry has humorously poured scorn at the propaganda and asked Western disinformation media outlets to publish the future schedule of Moscow’s invasions, after the previous prediction of a military incursion into Ukraine passed without incident.
REWIND: 1939: Assured of French and English support Poland is goaded into repeatedly provoking war with Hitler’s Germany, which is seen as a trade rival to Britain and France. Outcome: 50 million dead and hundreds of cities incinerated.
Americans may know little about Ukraine and even less about its leadership but one thing is certain: they strongly oppose sending US soldiers to fight Russians in defence of Kiev’s managed democracy, a new poll has revealed.
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