Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Tag: Russia

The multipolarism of fools

As a bloc of mostly authoritarian, eco-unfriendly, and socio-economically conservative countries masquerading as a geopolitical counterbalance, the BRICS represent the multipolarism of fools.

Trump orders US nuclear weapons testing to resume for the first...

The president’s directive to restart nuclear weapons testing, announced just before his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, has sparked alarm among arms control experts and lawmakers who warn it could trigger global escalation and radioactive fallout.

Two rogue, global criminal egomaniacs walk into a closed-door bar ....

Two rogue, global criminal egomaniacs walk into a closed-door bar . . . what could go wrong? 

Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?

If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.

The geopolitics of the ‘great man’

Will bromance turn to bruhpture in Alaska and Gaza?

Trump’s about-face on Ukraine

Trump might be a pushover, a chicken hawk, a TACO. But in Ukraine, Putin has found his own unmovable object.

What happens when Russian and Ukrainian soldiers come home?

Russian and Ukrainian soldiers will eventually largely lay down their arms, but as the Soviet Afghanistan War shows, returning from the frontlines causes its own issues.

The world’s four legacy empires going down

In a future full of signs that the four empires that have long dominated our world are all crumbling.

Russia’s war on Ukraine generates more emissions than 175 countries: $32...

The first two years of Russia’s invasion resulted in greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of 175 individual countries, further intensifying the global climate emergency.

The enemy is us

Looking back, the desire to make war and obliterate our “enemies” is a deeply ingrained and repetitive pattern in our history.

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US-Israel strikes on Iranian oil depots trigger environmental disaster and historic oil shock

Bombing of energy infrastructure in Tehran sparks toxic rainfall warnings, record crude price surge, and accusations of war crimes as fires and smoke engulf Iran’s capital.

After loneliness

Left for dead in Donald Trump's America; could communal life stir?

How 300 billionaires poured $3 billion into the 2024 elections

A tiny fraction of donors supplied nearly one-fifth of all federal campaign spending as billionaire influence surged to unprecedented levels.

The war on Iran—and Washington’s missing exit strategy

That means inflicting real costs: U.S. casualties, political backlash at home, strained relations with allies, global economic disruption and a further erosion of Washington’s standing in the world.

Trump’s Iran war costs $1 billion a day while hospitals close and healthcare disappears

Critics warn the administration’s military campaign could fund food aid and healthcare for millions of Americans already struggling with rising prices.