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Adam Tooze – A “house of cards”? Russia’s war economy in 2025.

January 16, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Commentators in The FT are desperate to wish into existence a financial crisis in Russia, but the reality is that Russia is surviving Western sanctions. In Adam Tooze’s ‘Chartbook’ Substack. Read the article HERE.

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Anatol Lieven: The fall of Assad is a defeat for Russia — and no ‘win’ for the US

December 11, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Zero-sum geopolitics is in vogue, but in the long-term none of the major powers win from chaos and failed states. Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. […]

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Ian Proud – Why Putin won’t go nuclear following ATACMS decision

November 18, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Putin is likely to calculate that it is not worth over-reacting to a lame duck US President. Ian Proud was a member of Britain’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic […]

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Glenn Diesen – BRICS Stockpiling Gold as the G7 Weaponised Finance

November 13, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Gold is making a comeback because the G7 can’t be trusted with the sovereign funds of other countries. Glenn Diesen is a professor of political science at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), with a research focus […]

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Anatol Lieven – An unfortunate rush to judgment in Georgia elections

October 30, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The Western media is indulging the preassembled narrative: that the only way the government could win was by rigging the vote. Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible […]

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Al Jazeera – Mapping the range of Storm Shadow missiles in the Russia-Ukraine war

September 18, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Joint British-French built long-range missiles could hit deep into Russia, if Ukraine gets the go ahead from Washington to use them. Read the article HERE.

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Mark Curtis – ‘Let’s just fight’: How Britain prefers war over peace in Ukraine

September 11, 2024 Ben Wray 0

“Boris Johnson avoided promoting a compromise peace in Ukraine after Russia invaded. Now, Labour continues to help prolong the conflict to secure British interests.” In ‘Declassified UK’. Read the article HERE.

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Anatol Lieven – When Oh When—and How—Will the War in Ukraine End?

September 9, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Kursk hasn’t helped Ukraine’s cause but it’s still possible to negotiate a peace deal which would leave Putin with less than he aimed for at the start of the war. Anatol Lieven is a Professor […]

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Euronews – German Chancellor says any future Ukraine peace conference must include Russia

September 9, 2024 Ben Wray 0

If Olaf Scholz is saying it, then it won’t be long before all EU governments decide that it’s time to give peace a chance. Read the article HERE.

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Mahir Ali – Ukraine, Russia and the West

August 28, 2024 Ben Wray 0

There are no clean hands in the Ukraine war. Mahir Ali has worked as a journalist in Pakistan, the UAE and Australia across four decades. Cross-posted from Pearls & Irritations It would be fairly uncontroversial […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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