Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Guardian: UK defence secretary Ben Wallace has warned that having failed in his main objectives, Russian President Vladimir Putin may order his troops to fortify and dig in, and become a “cancerous growth” in Ukraine. Interviewed on Sky News in … Weiterlesen →

Pravda: Russia’s only goal is Ukraine’s total capitulation Russia has received another alarming signal during the ongoing military operation. … Russia needs Ukraine to capitulate. … Ukraine’s drone attack in Bryansk, Russia, became the last straw. … The distance from Bryansk … Weiterlesen →

Dan Sabbagh, Guardian: While the west toughens its stance over Putin’s invasion, it is rejecting his foreign minister’s claim that Nato is in a proxy war with Russia Step by step, the west’s war aims are expanding. What began as … Weiterlesen →

BBC: BBC: Russia’s decision to cut off gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria is an „instrument of blackmail“, the EU says. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said the move showed Russia’s „unreliability“ as a supplier. You are a … Weiterlesen →

Alexey Navalny, a liberal member of the Yabloko Party, became what was to be one of the most recognizable of a new liberal-friendly brand of opposition nationalists. Following the events in Kondopoga he created a movement known as Narod (‘People’), … Weiterlesen →

Alexander Dugin, in interview for the Federal News Agency (FAN): – There is a feeling that something new is coming, a new world. And a start has been made by the special operation in Ukraine. But what kind of world … Weiterlesen →

Jack F. Matlock Jr., Washington Post, March 14, 2014: But a failure to appreciate how the Cold War ended has had a profound impact on Russian and Western attitudes — and helps explain what we are seeing now. The common … Weiterlesen →

Gleb Pavlovsky, 2012: Putin belongs to a very extensive, but politically opaque, unrepresented, unseen layer of people, who after the end of the 1980s were looking for revanche in the context of the fall of the Soviet Union. I was … Weiterlesen →

21. (SBU) According to Aleksandr Dugin, a friend of Limonov, the name of the party made no difference to Limonov. „He wanted to call it ‚National Socialism,‘ ‚National Fascism,‘ ‚National Communism‘ – whatever. Ideology was never his thing. The scream … Weiterlesen →