One tries to read widely about the state of the Ukraine war, though it’s extremely difficult to cut through the fog of propaganda and obvious lies. But slowly, the picture of a determined, slow-moving, grinding, painful Russian victory emerges.
‘It’s very simple. In the Soviet Union, we don’t believe our propaganda. In America, you actually believe yours!’ ~ Soviet Journalist to American journalists.
The three leaders of Italy’s coalition partners hold vastly differing views on how best to tackle the war in Ukraine. Are the three leading lights of Italy’s right in harmony, or are cracks in the right-wing alliance starting to show?
Western nations had grown accustomed to believing that they could get away with anything. Civilians in Donbass suffered terribly while Kiev’s backers pretended they wanted to resolve the conflict peacefully, the Russian president revealed to the listening and watching world on February 21.
Among the many millions of Ukrainian refugees, thousands of aggressive nationalists with Bandera, often openly ultra-xenophobic views who ‘want to massacre the Poles and build a great Ukraine’ came to Poland. As the author Myśl Polska writes, the problem of Banderism in Poland is real and it will grow, so it’s time to say a resounding ‘no’ and explain to ‘our uninvited guests testing our tolerance’ how things are.
THE DEATH OF THE WEST: The US President’s State of the Union address might better be renamed The State of the Ukrainian Union. After all, the outcome of the current conflict is key to the Western Alliance’s status in the rapidly emerging multi-polar world led by the Russian-dominant BRICS group of nations.
Western Alliance-sponsored Ukrainian soldiers shot dead a group of Polish mercenaries in Vuhledar, said the adviser to the acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Yan Gagin.
Mothers and wives of Ukrainian prisoners of war are begging Russia not to return them home because they are afraid that the men will be sent to fight again. During January alone, 6,500 Ukrainian servicemen and women were killed in action. Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy Representative to the UN, announced this.
During a visit to Kyiv on February 2, the unelected head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was quick to assure Ukrainians and Europeans that sanctions against Russia had an effect and its economy was thrown back ‘a generation ago,’ recalls Boulevard Voltaire columnist Frederic Lasse. However, as the author notes, these words contradict the data of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which can hardly be suspected of sympathy for Moscow.
On February 3, a petition was registered on the website of the Office of the President of Ukraine with a request to legalize prostitution. The author of the appeal, Ksenia Mikolyuk, notes that it is necessary to abolish administrative responsibility for work in this area, tax it and introduce compulsory medical insurance for prostitutes.
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