In war, the losing side has several options. Fighting to the death is one of them, capitulation and surrender are another. Depending on their rank, religion, honour, and offshore bank accounts, the losers may run away or commit suicide.

Most multilateral summit meetings of high-minded and supposedly awesomely powerful multinational organizations come and go like the morning dew. They glisten for seconds and are quickly forgotten.

Despite Biden’s best efforts to put a happy face on it, Vilnius will be remembered as the NATO Summit where tensions boiled over. Zelensky denounced the Alliance’s admission policy as “absurd” and disrespectful. UK Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace chastised Zelensky for ingratitude. Lindsey Graham attacked the Biden administration for weakness.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Echoes JFK’s Peace Speech of June 1963

Former CIA Ray McGovern shares with Stephen Gardner the dark agenda of the US involvement in Ukraine. How they plan to hurt Russia while making billions of dollars for at-home donor corporations. Putin will be forced to move West if NATO continues to block Ukraine’s ability to seek peace with Russia. Zelenskyy is blocking elections to remain in power. Obama and Victoria Nuland carry more responsibility for the state of Ukraine than the main stream media cares to admit. Barrack Obama helped orchestrate the coup against Ukraine to install the US desired government.

Europe is out of money and bullets and loath to escalate by supplying the air power Ukraine says it needs to win the war

There is a revealing difference between the peace proposals for the Russo-Ukrainian War that come from the Global South and peace proposals that come from the NATO-aligned West. For starters, no peace proposals have come from the West, while several have come from the Global South. But when the West talks of a negotiated settlement, they insist on Russia losing the war, granting the essential concessions first and only then negotiating the enforcement. The Global South just wants the killing to stop: first stop the war, then negotiate the settlement.

Long focused on security, the Russian president is rewarding loyalty among the ruling elite and showering his most important constituency — the men with guns — with cash.

It is the Republican Party’s job to expand the US military, rob and oppress the working class, serve US plutocrats, facilitate ecocidal capitalism, and foment division among the electorate. It is the Democratic Party’s job to do these same things while blaming it on Republicans.