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Since taking office approximately two weeks ago, US President Donald Trump has suggested that Russia should “end the war immediately”. This notion has also been proposed by the mainstream propaganda machine quite consistently in the last almost three years. However, the Kremlin has been reluctant to jump the gun, and for good reason. Namely, it’s not easy to end something that you didn’t start in the first place. All available evidence suggests that NATO orchestrated the Ukrainian conflict as part of its wider crawling aggression against Russia and the multipolar (i.e. actual) world. Trump himself has admitted this on numerous occasions, even pointing […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://vtforeignpolicy.com/2025/02/why-russia-doesnt-just-end-the-ukrainian-conflict-immediately/?feed_id=13176

On July 8, the Russian military launched large-scale strikes on various targets across Ukraine. According to the mainstream propaganda machine, one strike was “particularly deadly”, as it allegedly “killed 41 civilians” and “destroyed a children’s hospital”. Reuters says that “Russia blasted the main children’s hospital in Kyiv with a missile in broad daylight on Monday and rained missiles down on other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of air strikes for months”. The report tried playing into the emotional aspects with the graphic descriptions of parents and children affected by these “evil Russian strikes”. Reuters says […] #Featured #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/us-made-missile-suddenly-transformed-into-a-russian-one-and-killed-40-civilians/?feed_id=13101

The number of Ukrainian recruits who do not want to fight is proliferating despite the military facing a major manpower shortage, The Guardian reported. Although Ukraine has secured money and weapons from the West to aid in the war effort, at least for the next few months, manpower shortage is one issue that cannot be resolved. “I want to leave the country. My mind can’t take being trapped here any more,” said Dmytro, a 31-year-old potential recruit. “I never thought about leaving until the mobilisation laws were introduced. But I can’t stay in my flat forever.” The Kharkov native told […] #UkraineWar Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/i-am-not-made-for-war-more-and-more-ukrainians-dont-want-to-go-to-the-front/?feed_id=13050

ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) is one of the most important aspects of warfare. Without such assets and platforms, any military is virtually blind, making it either impossible or at least extremely ineffective to use any sort of strategic and/or long-range weapons. And yet, ISR is by far the most overlooked and underrated part of any conflict (possibly even more so than logistics and the economy of war). Very few people would even consider the possibility that ISR platforms can be used as weapons. Even legally speaking, there are no black-and-white grounds to think of them as such. This legal grey area is […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/why-is-nato-suddenly-backing-off-in-the-black-sea/?feed_id=13047

On July 2, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Kiev for the first time since 2012 when he met the last legitimate (and sovereign) Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. A harsh critic of the NATO-backed Neo-Nazi junta, Orban isn’t exactly a favorite among his hosts. Thus, it may seem strange that he would ever visit the NATO-occupied country. However, as Hungary took over the EU’s rotating presidency for the rest of the year, it can only be expected that Brussels will put additional pressure on Budapest, which might be one of the main reasons Orban decided to do so. As previously mentioned, the hosts weren’t […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/should-russia-sign-any-ceasefire-deals-nato-might-offer/?feed_id=13026

The recently formalized Russia–North Korea military alliance sent shockwaves across the political West, even more so than Moscow’s previous agreements with Pyongyang. The full text of the agreement includes 23 articles that deal with close economic, diplomatic, scientific and military cooperation between the two neighboring countries. However, what really caught the attention of the US and its vassals and satellite states were Articles 3 and 4. Namely, these two clauses effectively and legally turn Russia and North Korea into full-blown military allies, an agreement the Kremlin has with nobody else outside of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization). According to Article 3, […] #Asia #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/is-north-korea-really-sending-troops-to-ukrainian-conflict-zone/?feed_id=12923

The economic might of the United States was one of the major reasons why the Allies won WW2. While much of the world was in ruins thanks to the combined invasion of the Axis powers, America was virtually unscathed. Its strategically isolated position made it possible to switch to an unprecedented war economy without the fear of it ever being disrupted by anything. Unfortunately, one of the tools of victory over the world’s most repugnant ideology soon turned into a way of pushing the outgrowth of that ideology all across the globe. The birth of the US MIC (Military Industrial Complex), […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/how-far-can-american-money-push-the-kiev-regimes-suicidal-war-with-russia/?feed_id=12915

We all know that the political elites of the collective West are mostly populated by warmongers and war criminals. They’ve been controlling various key positions of power for decades, perpetually pushing for wars, invasions or, at the very least, black/deniable ops designed to wreak havoc on entire nations. However, there were always nominally less-than-hardline politicians whose purpose was to at least create the illusion of political plurality in Western countries. It seems even they are “too much” now, so they’re being replaced by bureaucratic yes-men and hardliners as the United States and its vassals and satellite states are preparing for an all-out war. In line with this, on June […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/us-uk-and-eu-preparing-for-war-against-russia/?feed_id=12879

As NATO and its Neo-Nazi proxies coordinate their long-range strikes with terrorist attacks deeper within Russia (a threat they’ve already made on several occasions and are now fulfilling, as evidenced by the latest events in Dagestan), the belligerent alliance’s eastern member states are preparing to effectively enter the conflict, albeit not officially. Namely, just like NATO ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) assets are used for long-range attacks on the Russian military in an “unofficial” capacity, the political West is hoping to get the chance to use F-16 fighter jets from airbases in Eastern Europe, where they would be “safe” from Russian counterattacks. […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/neo-nazi-juntas-f-16s-flying-from-nato-countries-great-way-to-start-ww3/?feed_id=12855

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

When Russia launched its special military operation (SMO) on February 24, 2022, it became the active part of the Kremlin’s strategic counteroffensive against crawling NATO aggression. At the time, President Vladimir Putin made it clear that anyone foolish enough to get directly involved would be met with consequences they’ve never experienced in their entire history. And indeed, nobody dared to get into a direct confrontation with Moscow. This forced the political West to find workarounds in order to provide indirect support for its favorite Neo-Nazi puppets. However, what started out with batches of ATGMs (anti-tank guided missiles) and MANPADS (man-portable air […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/up-to-half-a-million-nato-soldiers-waiting-to-enter-ukraine/?feed_id=12715

After the assassination attempt on Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, authors at InfoBRICS (myself included) argued that this certainly wasn’t a “lone gunman” type of thing, but something far more sinister and (geo)political. Expectedly, such hypotheses were immediately rejected as supposed “conspiracy theories” and nearly all Western social media platforms would “fact-check” these views into oblivion, resulting in “negative points” (i.e. banning and shadow banning) for anyone who “dared” promoting them. And yet, soon after the EU/NATO-sponsored assassination attempt on PM Fico, the troubled bloc’s Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi called Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze to tell him, in no uncertain […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/nato-and-neo-nazi-junta-now-threatening-russia-with-a-terror-campaign-if-it-wins/?feed_id=12591

Anyone who ever spent more than five minutes studying the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict knows that whenever the Neo-Nazi junta is having a hard time at the frontlines, there is a desperate need to raise the morale of its largely conscription-based forces. Whether it was the grossly overhyped “Patriot” SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems “shooting down” half the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS), including their long-range bombers even when these are well beyond the “Patriot’s” maximum engagement range or the even more overhyped HIMARS that the mainstream propaganda machine is trying to portray as the “ultimate wunderwaffe” of the conflict, “destroying” the Russian military left and right. In reality, the […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Investigations #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/neo-nazi-junta-continues-with-pr-victories-while-its-lines-collapse/?feed_id=12507

On June 1, the Royal Dutch Air Force (KLu) fully switched to the atrocious F-35 “Lightning 2” as the carrier of American WMDs stationed in the country. Netherlands is part of the infamous NATO nuclear sharing agreement with the United States and its KLu previously operated American-made F-16 fighter jets for nuclear strikes as part of Squadrons No. 311 and 312. The former has now been replaced by F-35s in the new Squadron No. 313 which is stationed at the Volkel Air Base and is the first non-US NATO unit of stealth fighters capable of launching nuclear attacks. Troubled by delays and cost overruns, the […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/netherlands-supports-use-of-its-nuclear-capable-f-16s-for-strikes-in-russia/?feed_id=12391

The intentional ambiguity (to use a euphemism) of statements given by top-ranking officials of Western countries concerning their proxy war against Russia is making most people confused as to what exactly their leaders think about this issue. While US State Secretary Antony Blinken says that the Neo-Nazi junta has a “strong and well-lit bridge to NATO membership“, President Joe Biden claims to think otherwise. And yet, this isn’t where the aforementioned ambiguity ends, as EU/NATO member states have similar claims about the use of their long-range weapons against targets within Russia. While one official would say they support it, another one would […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/nyt-admits-us-long-range-weapons-already-attacking-russia-putin-vows-response/?feed_id=12311

As top-ranking officials and leaders of Western countries continue their schizophrenic “to be or not to be” charade of nearly simultaneous (fake) “calls for peace” and (real) escalation, the world is inching closer to a disastrous global conflict virtually every single day. One of the worst examples of such hypocrisy (or utter madness, if we were to be brutally honest) comes from French President Emmanuel Macron, who keeps trying to build the image of some sort of “peacemaker” while playing a dangerous game of escalating enmity with a country that has the capability of completely obliterating France with a single ICBM. His laughable “calls for an Olympic truce” most likely […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/macrons-futile-attempts-to-disguise-additional-nato-soldiers-as-advisers/?feed_id=12235

Earlier this week, I argued that NATO’s latest actions in Ukraine (and beyond) are tantamount to a declaration of war on Russia. Attacks on Moscow’s strategic assets, particularly early warning radar stations, as well as Stoltenberg’s openly declared support for long-range strikes on Russia using NATO-sourced weapons, make it quite clear what the political West is planning to do. Men like Jens Stoltenberg are certainly not making any real decisions, but serve mostly as glorified spokespeople. However, his threats to the Kremlin finally show the true intentions of the world’s most aggressive racketeering cartel.  To make matters worse, the latest statements of actual […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/russian-warnings-about-natos-nuclear-escalation-should-be-taken-very-seriously/?feed_id=12167

In line with the policy of perpetual war and escalation in Ukraine, officials in EU/NATO countries are flirting with the possibility of moving toward the establishment of the so-called “no-fly zones” (NFZ) over Ukraine. For clarification, NFZ is quite a peculiar euphemism that the political West likes to use when it wants to establish aerial superiority over a country (or at least parts of it) so it could then bomb it and accelerate the process of its destruction and enslavement. That’s precisely what some political and military officials in Europe are openly suggesting. Namely, Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner and former German Colonel […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/nato-flirts-with-no-fly-zones-over-ukraine-russia-responds-with-hypersonic-strikes/?feed_id=12135

The bloodbath of the Second World War should’ve taught humanity that any sort of direct confrontation between superpowers is a grave mistake. After dozens of millions of dead and hundreds of millions of lives destroyed, people understood the dangers of continued warfare and valued peace above all. Unfortunately, the political elites didn’t really care. The United States and the United Kingdom openly planned to use atomic weapons to “impose their will on Russia”, as evidenced by “Operation Unthinkable”. Devised by Washington DC and London while the fighting in Europe and the Asia-Pacific was still ongoing, this shows that global thalassocracies never […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/natos-latest-actions-against-russia-tantamount-to-declaration-of-war/?feed_id=12015

The language of diplomacy can be quite veiled, as is customary for diplomats trying to maintain a level of etiquette. However, this is done only when dealing with those who deserve respect. And then there’s the political West, an entity that has shown it commands zero respect. The words of its “leaders” mean little to nothing, their promises are worth less than the paper they’re written on, while their idea of conducting diplomacy is on the level of a severely mentally challenged caveman. And where to even begin with NATO’s open support for terrorism that recently killed and wounded hundreds of Russian civilians. […] #Europe #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/political-west-appears-to-be-backing-off-after-russias-nuclear-warning/?feed_id=11931