Russia–Ukraine war

Hegseth Demands Nato Allies ‘Spend More’ To Ensure US Support

June 6, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! European Union (EU), NATO, Pete Hegseth, Russia, Russia–Ukraine war, Ukraine

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called on NATO allies to adopt US President Donald Trump's former demand that member states increase defense spending to five percent of their gross domestic product (GDP), a significant jump from the current target of two percent. Hegseth made the remarks on 5 June during a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels, with the aim of finalizing commitments before the upcoming summit in The Hague scheduled for 24–26 June. “We're here to continue the work that President Trump started, which is a commitment to five percent defense spending across this alliance,” Hegseth said, emphasizing that the increase “has to happen by the summit.”

Rooting Out The Root Causes In Ukraine

May 20, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Donald Trump, Media, NATO, Russia, Russia–Ukraine war, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

After a two-hour telephone call between the presidents of Russia and the United States on Monday, President Vladimir Putin said: I would like to emphasize once again that the conversation was very constructive, and I rate it highly. The question, of course, is for the Russian and Ukrainian sides to show maximum desire for peace and find compromises that would suit all parties. At the same time,I would like to note that Russia’s position is generally clear. The main thing for us is to eliminate the root causes of this crisis. It should be no mystery to Western leaders, media and the public what those root causes are, as Moscow has been repeating them ad nauseam beginning 30 years ago and especially in the run up to Russia’s 2022 intervention in Ukraine’s then eight-year old civil war.

Meet Centuria, Ukraine’s Western-Trained Neo-Nazi Army

April 8, 2024 Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone. Educate! Azov Battalion, Centuria, Germany, NATO, Neo-Nazis, Russia–Ukraine war, Ukraine, Ukraine aid, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, Yaroviv

Centuria, an ultra-violent Ukrainian Neo-Nazi faction, has cemented itself in six cities across Germany, and is seeking to expand its local presence. According to Junge Welt, a Berlin-based Marxist daily, the Nazi organization’s growth has been “unhindered by local security services.” Junge Welt traces Centuria’s origins to an August 2020 Neo-Nazi summit “at the edge of a forest near Kiev.” There, an ultranationalist named Igor “Tcherkas” Mikhailenko demanded the “hundreds of mostly masked vigilante fighters present,” who were members Kiev’s fascistic National Militia, “make sacrifices for the idea of ‘Greater Ukraine.’”

Putin’s Nuclear Warning Is Direct And Explicit

March 6, 2024 M. K. Bhadrakumar, People's Dispatch. Educate! Emmanuel Macron, Lloyd Austin, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Russia–Ukraine war, Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine war, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin

The specter of Armageddon has been raised often enough during the two-year old war in Ukraine that the reference to it in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state of the union address on Thursday had a familiar ring about it. Therein lies the risk of misjudgement on the part of the Western audience that Putin was only “crying wolf”. Three things must be noted at the outset. First, Putin has been explicit and direct. He is giving advance notice that he is obliged to respond with nuclear capability if the Russian statehood is threatened. Eschewing innuendos or dark hints, Putin actually made a sombre declaration of epochal significance.

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