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Flashback: Branko Marcetic: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War (Feb. 2022)

In 2014 Ukraine, great power gamesmanship, righteous anger at a corrupt status quo, and opportunistic far-right extremists toppled the government in the Maidan Revolution. Today’s crisis in Ukraine can’t be understood without understanding Maidan.

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Flashback: Four Years of Ukraine and the Myths of Maidan

The history of the Ukrainian crisis, which has made everything it affected worse, is distorted by political myths and American media malpractice.

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Angel of Death Calls For Even More Slaughter in Ukraine

Once again, The Obama and Biden administration’s Angel of Death has spread her wings over Ukraine.

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The Ukraine War Runs on Prevarication 

The Biden administration’s Ukraine PR campaign echoes messaging on the Vietnam War beat for beat.

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Avdiivka, Longtime Stronghold for Ukraine, Falls to Russians

With Ukraine’s forces at risk of encirclement, the top military commander ordered a retreat. In startlingly candid accounts, soldiers described disarray and despair.

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‘There’s only Plan A’: Defense leaders fear failure in Ukraine

Attendees of the Munich Security Conference were worried about Ukraine’s prospects against Russia and American commitment to Kyiv.

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More Aid to Ukraine: Sending Good Money After Bad

What was the basis for a quarter of a millennium of uninterrupted and unprecedented growth and wealth creation that has been the dominant theme of United States history? It has been the growth and preservation of the free market and the rise of Wall Street as the most freewheeling, unregulated (however much this has now changed) successful investment and money mart in the world.

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New poll: Nearly 70% of Americans want talks to end war in Ukraine

The survey suggests Biden administration policy toward Russia is increasingly out of step with public opinion

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Throwing Good Money After Bad in Ukraine?

Ray McGovern and Lawrence Wilkerson argue the U.S. should accept that no amount of U.S. funding will change Russia’s will and means to prevail in Ukraine.

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The idea of total Ukrainian victory is delusional

The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 26, contains this invaluable insight: “As dogs return to their vomit, so fools repeat their folly. You see those who are wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.” Invaluable because, in connection with the Russia-Ukraine War, the passage powerfully illuminates the current debate about Ukraine’s future strategic prospects.