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Amb. Oleksandr Chalyi is a veteran Ukrainian diplomat who took part in the talks. He says “we were very close… to finalize our war with some peaceful settlement.”
Putin, he stresses, “tried to do everything possible to conclude [an] agreement with Ukraine” and “really wanted to reach some peaceful settlement with Ukraine.” And the two sides “managed to find a very real compromise.”
But what happened? “For some reasons it was… postponed,” he says. He doesn’t elaborate. But we know the answer: the US and UK blocked the Ukrainian-Russian compromise. (Read more)
Establishment US media has memory-holed this critical piece of history. And so many proxy war dupes have denied it.
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April 30th is an important date in American politics. This is the day 100 for the American President in the White House, and all attention will be on the reports of his achievements and failures. But nothing can be more critical than Peace…
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Russia’s invasion has made ordinarily outspoken critics of antisemitism wary of criticizing Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
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Richard Sakwa has for many years been one of the most distinguished and insightful observers of relations between the West and Russia, and one of the leading critics of Western policy. In this talk with Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute, Sakwa discusses his book, The Culture of the Second Cold War (Anthem 2025). The book examines the cultural-political trends and inheritances that underlie the new version of a struggle that we thought we had put behind us in 1989. Sakwa describes both the continuities from the first Cold War and the ways in which new technologies have reshaped strategies and attitudes.
