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  •  | Tump and Putin | MR Online

    Russia rejects Trump’s freeze of the war in Ukraine

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on April 28, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted May 03, 2025)

    The details of the ceasefire negotiations between the U.S., Europe and Ukraine continue to make headlines despite being largely irrelevant for an end of the conflict in Ukraine.

  •  | Ukraine | MR Online

    Zelenski has yet to eat the shit sandwich

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on February 22, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Feb 25, 2025)

    The Trump administration is increasing its pressure on Ukraine’s (former) president Zelenski to swallow the shit sandwich.

  •  | Credit CBS News | MR Online

    NYT prints lie – Adds link which debunks it

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on February 15, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Feb 17, 2025)

    As part of reading up on the JD Vance speech I stumbled over an outrageously arrogant attempt of reader manipulation in the New York Times.

  •  | Biden and Zelensky shake hands at the NATO Summit in July 2023 in Vilnius Photo Dati BendoEuropean Commission | MR Online

    The game is up Trump tells Ukrainian war party

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on February 12, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Feb 14, 2025)

    Today the Trump administration told the Ukraine war party that their game is finally up.

  •  | China | MR Online

    China urged to end successful policies

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on February 10, 2025 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Feb 12, 2025)

    In a globalized world the innovation ability of a country can be measured by the number of global patents it files.

  •  | People march from Binnish to Taftanaz after it was shelled by Assad | MR Online

    Syria – Winners and losers or both

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on December 9, 2024 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Dec 11, 2024)

    Syria has fallen.

  •  | On civil society and foreign agents interview to TASS  President of Russia enkremlinru | MR Online

    Why these new Russian missiles are real game changers

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on November 22, 2024 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Nov 25, 2024)

    In response to a U.S. decision to arrange for ballistic missile attacks from Ukraine into Russia, the great magician and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin pull a rabbit from his hat.

  •  | Russian President Vladimir Putin ID1974Shutterstock and President Joe Biden Stratos Brilakisshutterstock | MR Online

    To prolong the war in Ukraine U.S. allows ATACMS use on Russia

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on November 18, 2024 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Nov 21, 2024)

    The ATACMS missiles Ukraine had so far been allowed to fire, mostly against Crimea, have been carriers of cluster ammunition with a reach of some 160 kilometer.

  •  | Ukrainian soldiers of the 1st Battalion 28th Mechanized Infantry Brigade sing along as their national anthem is played during the opening ceremonies for their training rotation with the Joint Multinational Training Group   Ukraine at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center near Yavoriv Ukraine on Feb 2 Photo by Sgt Anthony Jones 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team | MR Online

    Ukraine SitRep: Eating the seed corn–Intervention threats and responses

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on May 2024 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted May 08, 2024)

    Dima of the Military Summary Channel and others have mentioned that the Ukrainian army has deployed its police and military cadets to the front line.

  •  | American Flag | MR Online

    At the UN it is a rogue U.S. against the rest of the world

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on March 28. 2024 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Mar 30, 2024)

    Ted Snider asks: “Is America a Rogue Superpower?”

  •  | New York Times Readers Are The Least Informed Ones | MR Online

    New York Times readers are the least informed ones

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on March 21, 2024 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Mar 22, 2024)

    One presumes that readers of a media institution which calls itself the ‘paper of record’ would be informed about an important issue which  in other media has for month led the headlines of the day.

  •  | Nord Stream Pipeline explosion Photo Reuters | MR Online

    Hersh reveals U.S. motive for destruction of Nord Stream pipelines

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on September 26, 2023 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Sep 28, 2023)

    Seymour Hersh just published a new piece about the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines.

  •  | Top Ukrainian intelligence official Kirill Budanov has proposed a 100 km long demilitarised zone between Ukraine and Russia | MR Online

    Who can give security guarantees to Ukraine?

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on July 25, 2023 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Jul 29, 2023)

    A main question for Ukraine since it became an independent state was who or what could potentially guarantee its security.

  •  | Flags of Russia and Ukraine | MR Online

    Weak propaganda talk

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on July 20, 2023 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Jul 22, 2023)

    The aim of the counter-offensive was to reach the Sea of Azov, some 100 kilometer south of the frontline. At the current speed it would take the Ukrainian army 1,000 days (and many more soldiers and material than it has) to reach it.

  •  | Prigozhin after the end of the rebellion June 24 2023 Alexander Ermochenko  Reuters  Scanpix  LETA | MR Online

    Prigozhin’s farce is over and it is clear who has won

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on June 26, 2023 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Jun 28, 2023)

    The Prigozhin’s insurrection farce is over. I had predicted that it would not take long to end.

  •  | President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping | MR Online

    U.S. admits defeat in war on Russia and China

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on June 20, 2023 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Jun 26, 2023)

    Confronted with the realities of life the Biden administration has in the last days acknowledged defeat in two on its most egregious and delusional foreign policy games.

  •  | Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with US Vice President Joe Biden L inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing December 4 2013 REUTERSLintao ZhangPoolFile Photo | MR Online

    And then Biden blew it …

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on June 21, 2023 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Jun 24, 2023)

    The Biden talk, made official by posting it on the White House site, is an insult to China. Whatever Blinken has said or done to smooth the relations is now gone. It was already known that the U.S. can not be trusted with anything that it says. What counts is what the U.S. does and there it has so far shown no positive move towards China.

  •  | Ukrainian soldiers fire a mortar on the front line near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region September 26 2022 Photo courtesy the Ministry of Defense of UkraineTwitter | MR Online

    On the failure of the Ukrainian counterattack

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on June 16, 2023 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Jun 20, 2023)

    On June 4/5 the Ukrainian military launched its long announced counteroffensive in southeast Ukraine. Ten days later there is no significant progress.

  •  | RussiaGate   OtherWords | MR Online

    On the media of ‘Russiagate’ and related fake stories

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on February 2, 2023 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Feb 04, 2023)

    Last week Matt Taibbi, with access to Twitter’s internal papers, debunked the fake Hamilton 68 propaganda dashboard that was used to create many stories about alleged Russian disinformation.

  •  | UK media | MR Online

    Another Ukrainian missile stunt

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on November 16, 2022 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Nov 18, 2022)

    The 5V55K is an old Soviet produced missile (1978/82) for the S-300 air defense system that the Ukraine is using against Russian cruise missiles.

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