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Prigozhin’s mutiny has punctured Putin’s ‘strongman’ image

Peter Rutland — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 23:38:20 +0000

Less than 24 hours after the mutiny began, it was over. As the rebelling Wagner column bore down on Moscow, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko brokered a deal under which Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to drop criminal charges against the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and allow him to seek asylum in Belarus. The departing Wagner troops were given a heroes’ send-off by […]

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Progressives in US House call for ‘proactive diplomatic push’ for Ukraine ceasefire

Julia Conley — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:00:30 +0000

Noting the pain and suffering of the Ukraine people and the risk of nuclear war that threatens the entire world, progressive U.S. lawmakers on Monday called on President Joe Biden to make a decisive shift in his approach to the conflict by initiating a “proactive democratic push” with the goal of seeking “a realistic framework for a ceasefire” […]

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‘Conservative’ now just means ‘hates America’ and CPAC made that brutally clear

Mark Sumner — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:00:17 +0000

On Friday, in a widely condemned speech in which he laid claim to territory of a neighboring country, Vladimir Putin only spent about 15 minutes talking about Ukraine. In the rest of his speech, Putin spent his time attacking the West for “perversions” that have “completely moved to a radical denial of moral norms, religion, and family.” […]

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Vladimir Putin is putting all the steps in place to deploy a nuclear weapon in Ukraine

Mark Sumner — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 01:59:53 +0000

Over seven months in, it’s perfectly understandable that many are not following every thrust and parry in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin assumed that Russian forces could stroll into Ukraine in a “three-day war” that ended with his troops goose-stepping down the streets of Kyiv. He was wrong. The war that has developed is one […]

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Eliminating nuclear weapons ‘is not only possible, it is necessary’: UN chief

Jessica Corbett — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:02:03 +0000

“On the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, we reject the claim that nuclear disarmament is some impossible utopian dream.” That’s how United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday began his statement marking the ninth annual day dedicated to destroying the weapons of mass destruction. “Eliminating these devices of death is not only possible, it is […]

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Intelligence agencies fear that Trump has been leaking information on U.S. spies overseas

Mark Sumner — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:00:28 +0000

In what may be the most shocking story to emerge from the entire Mar-a-Lago document scandal, The New York Times is reporting that officials at intelligence agencies fear that among the classified information Donald Trump stole was details on U.S. assets embedded in foreign countries. The names, locations, and even the existence of such assets is among the most guarded […]

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UN chief says humanity ‘one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation’

Jake Johnson — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:00:32 +0000

The head of the United Nations issued a stark warning Monday that global geopolitical conflicts and escalating military tensions between nuclear-armed powers have pushed humanity to the brink of self-destruction—a looming catastrophe that can only be avoided by eliminating atomic weapons entirely. “Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” U.N. […]

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