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A national poll (conducted by Marist Poll) in late May showed that a staggering 47% of American citizens believe a new civil war is likely to happen during their lifetime. The populace also deeply distrusts the mainstream propaganda machine, as evidenced by previous polls showing that nearly 40% of Americans don’t trust their media in the slightest. And who could possibly blame them? The American people have been lied to for decades, with warmongering politicians tricking them into supporting wars and foreign meddling that only exacerbated world problems, which would often come back and bite the electorate in the US itself. Now, […] #Featured #Government #Investigations Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/americans-ready-for-war-against-us-government/?feed_id=13074

It’s no secret that the US Military Industrial Complex (MIC) is the largest and most profitable in the world. After all, it’s the drive behind the vast majority of wars since WW2, bringing immense profit to the United States (obviously, at the expense of the entire world). Thus, one would expect that the US MIC is one of the few institutions in Washington DC that’s based on at least some meritocracy. Instead, it turns out it’s just as ineffective, cumbersome and overly bureaucratic as any other corrupt federal institution. It seems that decades of resting on its laurels and relying on the perpetuity of […] #Featured #Government #Military Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/failure-after-failure-of-the-us-military-industrial-complex/?feed_id=13041

For nearly half a century, Scandinavia’s neutrality (with the obvious exception of Norway) was an important segment of keeping various buffer zones between the Soviet Union and NATO. And interestingly, despite the fact that the USSR was much more powerful than Russia nowadays, while also being virtually unopposed in the Baltic Sea, for some reason, neither Sweden nor Finland felt the need to become part of NATO. What’s more, if there ever was a danger of a mythical Soviet invasion of either country, it was gone in 1991. Up to that point, Moscow’s access to the Baltic Sea stretched from […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/finland-gives-us-control-over-15-military-bases/?feed_id=13014

In the broadest sense of the word, terrorism is usually defined as the use of extremely violent and/or deadly methods (essentially any sort of illegal warfare) against a certain group of people to coerce them into submission, destroy them or simply achieve any other political or ideological goal. Non-combatants are particularly affected by terrorist attacks, as extremist groups operate outside of the norms of international law and consider anyone or anything to be a “legitimate” target, especially if they believe that terrorist activity will produce the desired result – the feeling of terror most people have in the aftermath of […] #Featured #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/russia-should-immediately-start-shooting-down-all-nato-isr-assets/?feed_id=12847

Back in mid-February, the mainstream propaganda machine bombarded us with a slew of reports about “big bad Russian space nukes“, claiming that Moscow is using its technological prowess to build strategic space-based weapons. And while it’s true the Eurasian giant is a cosmic superpower and that it certainly has the know-how to accomplish such a feat, the mainstream propaganda machine conveniently “forgot” to explain why the Kremlin would make the decision to expand its space capabilities. Namely, Russia is indeed planning to deploy a nuclear-powered anti-satellite weapon (ASAT), but there’s a massive difference between having thermonuclear warheads pointed at Earth […] #Featured #Government #Military #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/new-report-to-congress-shows-us-determined-to-militarize-space/?feed_id=12083

The history of thalassocracies has always been one of sea dominance, as the name itself implies. However, whenever they become too powerful, they all seem to make one persistent mistake – trying to go against tellurocracies or land powers on their home turf. Even then, thalassocracies usually realize just how hopelessly outclassed they are in such a fight, so they resort to cunning strategies of pushing one tellurocracy against another, an approach that sometimes results in conflicts of global proportions, with devastating consequences for anyone but the sea powers themselves. So far, land powers have been the most unfortunate in […] #Asia #Featured #Government #Military Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/how-chinas-naval-strategy-exposes-decades-of-americas-sinophobic-lies/?feed_id=11903

On April 24, US State Secretary Antony Blinken landed in China and officially started his (hopefully) diplomatic visit. The relationship between the two countries has worsened significantly. Beijing’s peaceful overtures have been met with nothing but hostility in Washington DC. The United States is simply terrified of the prospect that China will overtake it. However, this has already happened in many ways. When not murdering millions around the world, America is still trying to figure out whether public toilets should be “mixed-gender”, while China is busy building not just itself, but the world, too. Most of the planet is perfectly aware of this disparity and […] #Asia #Featured #Government Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/is-china-supposed-to-fear-feeble-threats-of-top-ranking-us-officials-visiting-beijing/?feed_id=11519

Washington is pragmatic and will abandon Europe with the Ukrainian conflict they caused, said Éric Denécé, director of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies. Likewise, he stressed that Russia had no choice but to launch its special military operation against Ukraine. The expert noted that it is impossible not to notice the US’ role in unleashing the conflict in Eastern Europe but stressed that policymakers in Washington are very pragmatic and will not get directly involved in a battlefield that is not favourable to them. “When they notice things are not going well, they do not hesitate to turn back […] #Europe #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/this-is-your-problem-now-us-leaving-ukraine-for-europe-to-deal-with-french-expert/?feed_id=11499

Doing anything in your power to defeat an opponent is the very definition of total war. This entails everything from sabotage and terrorist attacks targeting civilians to assassinating your adversary’s top-ranking officials (or even the leaders themselves). Obviously, there’s also the possibility of direct war, including the usage of weapons of mass destruction (thermonuclear, biological, chemical). Conducting any of the aforementioned operations can easily escalate and lead to the latter. This is precisely why there’s the institution of diplomacy, a millennia-old practice that has been respected by all of the world’s civilizations (obviously, this automatically excludes the modern-day political West). Nazi Germany was one of the first modern nations […] #Asia #Europe #Featured #Government #Investigations #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/dangers-of-normalizing-assassinations-of-non-compliant-foreign-leaders/?feed_id=11459

Back in November last year, the US military was in the process of deploying new medium-range missile systems to the increasingly contested Asia-Pacific region. At the time, General Charles A. Flynn, a four-star commanding officer of the US Army Pacific (USARPAC), stated that the deployment was officially slated for 2024 and that their purpose was to “deter China from invading Taiwan”. More importantly, Flynn revealed that the US Army would deploy a missile launcher that will be able to fire the land-based version of the medium-range “Tomahawk” missile. Still, he refused to disclose where exactly the systems would be deployed, leaving […] #Asia #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/us-moves-previously-banned-missiles-closer-to-china-and-russia/?feed_id=11227

Accusing countries of alleged intentions or ongoing programs to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) has long been the mainstay of America’s foreign policy. Regardless of whether it was a completely unfounded claim or one based on solid intelligence, the openly imperialist foreign policy of the United States is such that it’s virtually impossible to survive it without resorting to WMDs. North Korea is probably the most prominent example of this, as the small country (relative to its neighbors) was being directly threatened by the US only half a decade ago, while it now fields an arsenal worthy of a “pocket […] #Featured #Government #Investigations #Military #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/is-america-trying-to-bait-iran-into-a-limited-nuclear-war/?feed_id=11111

Pakistan has started construction of an 80-kilometre section of a gas pipeline with Iran despite receiving sanction threats from the US. Working against US interests, though, the threat of sanctions only pushes Pakistan not only closer to Iran but also to China and Russia. Construction for the pipeline from Gwadar in southwest Pakistan to a junction where it can join the Iranian gas pipeline finally started after years-long delays and Washington’s recent threat of sanctions. “Authorities have commenced the work to begin the construction of the 80-kilometre section of the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline from Gwadar to a point where it […] #Asia #Government Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/pakistan-defies-washingtons-sanction-threats-and-starts-building-gas-pipeline-with-iran/?feed_id=10971

For over two years now we’ve been reading, listening and watching the mainstream propaganda machine’s laughable claims about “Russia losing”, with the likes of the New York Times effectively becoming tabloids in all but name only with reports that Russia supposedly “lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers”. Simultaneously, they kept parroting the Neo-Nazi junta’s official numbers about “just over 30,000 of its own soldiers who have been KIA” (killed in action). However, ever since last year’s much-touted counteroffensive failed, they low-key started changing that narrative. In the last few months, that effectively turned into a full panic mode, with either “doomsday scenarios” popping up or […] #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/russian-military-completely-reconstituted-biden-admin-effectively-admits-it-lied/?feed_id=10891

America’s futile attempts to field a working hypersonic weapon demonstrate just how far behind in missile tech the rogue superpower has fallen. While it was busy with futile attempts to tarnish the reputation of Russian hypersonic missiles, the rest of the world kept doing its homework and the effort is finally paying off. Namely, on April 2, North Korea conducted the first test launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) with a hypersonic warhead. While it’s not entirely clear what sort of weapon is on top of the missile, it looks to be a glide vehicle (HGV). Dubbed the “Hwasong-16B” in most […] #Asia #Featured #Government #Military #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/north-korea-ahead-of-us-in-hypersonic-weapons/?feed_id=10735

The NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict is probably the most consequential clash of global superpowers ever since the end of the Second World War. Luckily, it represents only a fraction of civilian casualties in comparison to the political West’s war crimes and aggression against the world which has killed dozens of millions since the Korean War onwards. Such belligerence continues to this very day, with the troubled Biden administration bombing nearly half a dozen countries only in the first weeks of this year. This comprehensive aggression against the entire world will continue until the fangs and claws of the likes of NATO are blunted one day and its […] #Europe #Featured #Government #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/kievs-rift-with-neighbors-widens-as-it-continues-flooding-eu-with-cheap-grain/?feed_id=9959

Originally published by TASS Russian News Agency All links to Gospa News articles have been added aftermath, in relation to the topics highlighted Subscribe to the Gospa News Newsletter to read the news as soon as it is published Yemen’s well-armed Houthis are ready for a protracted showdown with the US-led Western coalition in the Red Sea; the latest round of European sanctions threatens future deliveries of electronic components to Russia; and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is wrapping up his three-nation Latin American tour by attending a G20 summit in Brazil. These stories topped Thursday’s newspaper headlines across Russia. Izvestia: […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #Military #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/houthis-ready-to-engage-long-conflict-with-western-coalition/?feed_id=9335

by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher The American Conservative published an article that parallels the Vietnam War, considered the greatest military humiliation in US history, with what they point out is a campaign of deception carried out by the current US Government, which will lead to a defeat for Kiev and NATO. According to the author James W. Carden, who served as an advisor on US-Russian affairs at the State Department during the Obama administration, the media campaign regarding Ukraine carried out by the White House was a copy of the actions of successive US governments in […] #Featured #Government #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/biden-and-us-media-lies-about-ukraine-are-reminiscent-of-vietnam-war-american-conservative/?feed_id=9299

by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher China’s Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a visit to Budapest on February 19 and offered support on public security issues and expressed his hope that such efforts would be “a new highlight of bilateral relations” in areas such as combating terrorism and transnational crimes. However, even before the statements were made by Xiaohong, the US Ambassador to Budapest had already expressed his alarm about the growing Chinese-Hungarian ties. The commitment would strengthen security and law enforcement capacity under the Belt and Road Initiative, the Chinese minister was quoted […] #Asia #Europe #Featured #Government Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/us-ambassador-frustrated-with-hungary-for-building-security-ties-with-china/?feed_id=9271

The Kiev regime’s inability to use air power effectively means that the only way for its forces to get indirect fire support is with NATO-sourced long-range missiles. What’s more, the belligerent alliance also provides all the necessary ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) data to target Russian troops and assets. It can even be argued that the Neo-Nazi junta’s overlords also keep choosing which targets should be hit, effectively making them a party to the conflict. NATO supplied both the tracked M270 MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) and wheeled M142 HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System). These systems can fire a plethora of short-range […] #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/will-kiev-regime-get-enhanced-atacms-missiles-to-strike-targets-beyond-crimea/?feed_id=9231

It’s truly inexplicable how the “evil” Kremlin is being “defeated” in Ukraine, mostly because its soldiers “lack” weapons and ammo and are forced to fight with “shovels and tree branches”, but still, Russia is somehow able to deploy “nukes in space”. Precisely this is the “logic” of the mainstream propaganda machine, stuck in a schizophrenic limbo of trying to underestimate Moscow while grossly exaggerating its losses and the need to present it as an immediate threat to the political West. Namely, on February 14, Ohio Republican Mike Turner, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that his panel had “made available to all Members of […] #Featured #Government #Military #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/beware-of-big-bad-russian-space-nukes/?feed_id=9047