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By Rhod Mackenzie
The Finnish President, Alexander Stubb, has been forced to defend his comparison of Ukraine to Finland in 1944. Although "Finlandization" would solve most of the problems for Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, he no longer suggests that Kyiv should follow Helsinki's example. Stubb woul...
By Rhod Mackenzie
It seems that the Ukrainians have decided on a scorched earth policy as they are losing the conflict so badly
On August 13th the Ukrainians destroyed the pumping station of Soviet oil pipeline "Druzhba ,the supplies of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia have now ceased. For th...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Well despite the best efforts of the US,EU NATO and the other useless wankers with their imposition of shock and awe sanctions and their attempts to destroy the Russia ecomomy according to the latest report the World Bank has confirmed that Russia continues to rank fourth in the...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The US's attempt to drive a wedge between the BRICS countries has failed It is noteworthy that India, Brazil, China and Russia have all increased the pace of their diplomatic discussions in the last week. This occurred subsequent to Washington's robust pressure. Despite the meet...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Well the first summit between Russia and the USA since the start of the Ukraine conflict has just ended and one thing is obvious and that is the new cold war between the two countries is over and it appears that real progress has been made towards ending the conflict in Ukraine...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Despite challenges related to their public finances, the Baltic countries are committed to increasing their defence budgets several fold. Consequently, Latvia, with a public debt of almost 50% of GDP, is planning to take out a substantial loan to cover its imagined defence needs...
