Australian Courier-Mail is one of Australia’s worst ‘if it bleeds it leads’ tabloids. A notorious Murdoch Paper, it runs fake pictures of a gas explosion in 2018 on its front page to blatantly make fools of readers about the Russian target bombing.
The sanctions that the U.S. plans to impose on Russia due to the events in Ukraine will hit Europe very hard, commented French historian and writer Dimitri de Kochko when questioned over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement on the recognition of the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics.
Former President Donald Trump has praised Russia’s Vladimir Putin for his strategy in eastern Ukraine, arguing that the Russian leader outmanoeuvred Joe Biden by declaring the breakaway republics of Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) to be sovereign states.
In the 1930s Britain urged Poland (today Ukraine) to constantly provoke her German neighbours. Promises were made to the Polish government (Ukraine) that in the event of a German military response (Russian) Britain and her Empire would ally itself to Poland to resist the German armed forces.
If Western sanctions lead to Russia’s oil exports being completely cut off, the world can expect the international energy market to collapse, a senior figure at the American rating agency Fitch said on Tuesday. Speaking in an interview with Russian news agency TASS, Dmitry Marinchenko explained that the current spike in oil prices would be lessened if there is no further escalation around Ukraine.
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’.
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.
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