The Ukrainian crisis has nothing to do with Ukraine. It’s about Germany and, in particular, a pipeline that connects Germany to Russia called Nord Stream 2. Washington sees the pipeline as a threat to its primacy in Europe and has tried to sabotage the project at every turn.
Why Putin had to act in brief: Russia was almost hemmed in by NATO missile bases, from which missiles could have easily shot down any ICBM launched from Russia. So, Russia was at a massive strategic disadvantage due to these expanding NATO bases encroaching upon its borders.
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.
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.
Liz Truss said that the UK’s ‘Baltic allies’ were located on the Black Sea, despite them being over 1,000km apart. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been slammed by Russia’s Foreign Ministry after a geography error confusing two different bodies of water in Europe, over 1,000km away from each other.
The military bloc isn’t always concerned about protecting its own, the Russian president has said. Despite NATO’s insistence that it is a defensive organisation, the US-led military bloc has not always acted that way, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, citing examples of NATO interventions and conflicts in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
EDITORIAL: The only enemy Ukraine has is Washington DC (NATO) and the Brussels European Union. Is there a difference? No. A fellow Ukrainian explains: ‘Support by the United States is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.’ – Nikita Khrushchev.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko provided his take on the current and future impact of the Ukrainian standoff, in an interview with YouTube channel Soloviev Live partly aired by Russian media on Sunday.
Russian soldiers could be sent to Nicaragua, one of the seven nations separating the US from Latin America and Venezuela under laws already in place in the Central American nation. This was the persuasive prediction made by Moscow’s ambassador in Managua.
On Friday, Bloomberg news agency published the headline ‘Russia invades Ukraine’ only to remove it half an hour later, lamely claiming that it was a pre-written headline rolled out inadvertently.
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