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The US thinks it can "bankrupt" Russia with sanctions. Contrary to Western claims Russia in 2017 did not ‘run out of money’… What is extraordinary is not that Russia has not run out of money. It is that supposedly serious people in the West ever thought it would. The dismal truth is that no economic catastrophe in Russia is too farfetched to prevent some people in the West predicting it, whilst there is never any penalty for these people when regular as clockwork the predicted economic...

Some fact-checking about the newly contracted Kerch Bridge over the Kerch Strait of the Sea of Azov that connects the Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland. Fort Russ Atlantic Council wants war against Russia over a Ukrainian fish story Christelle Néant in Agoravox.fr, translated by Tom Winter

The Russian government is convinced that US sanctions are aimed at regime change in Russia.RT US sanctions aimed at turning business elite against Putin before election – KremlinSee also RT's Capitol press credentials cancelled.Sputnik InternationalRussia Hysteria: US Congress Revokes RT’s Capitol Hill Press Credentials

Good read. The review is mostly about Russia, despite the title.The Duran Does the United States have a future? A new book by Gilbert Doctorow (book review)Alexander Mercouris

Masha Gessen? (rolls eyes)I can't wait to see the reactions to this.Masha Gessen is the epitome of the liberal Russian russophobe.QuartzA longtime critic of Vladimir Putin just won the US National Book Award Thu-Huong Ha

Sputnik InternationalAnalysts Explain How China May Respond to US Push to Militarize Asia-Pacific Deutsche WelleNATO to beef up in face of 'assertive' Russia The Cipher BriefSecuring Orbit: Countdown to a Space Corps? Russia FeedCrimea has a shipyard ready to build a new fleet of Russian aircraft carriers USNIUPDATED: 7 U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Now Simultaneously UnderwaySam LaGrone

Backgrounder. It's longish, so save it for weekend reading. It is the best analysis of Russian conservatism I have run across. They discuss the economy near the end. The beginning is Rusian history and the middle is Russian politics. Russian public opinion is more sovereigntist, more conservative than the Russian government. Most Russians are not raging liberals clamoring for universal rights, freedom and democracy, and internationalism. They are first and foremost Russians, for whom the...

As a number of participants (including myself) pointed out, compared with these existential threats to existing states, the issues currently dividing Russia and the West are likely to seem to the historians of the future (if there are any) so minor as to be almost insignificant. One hundred years from now, our descendants are likely to look back on disputes over Crimea, the Donbas and Syria with the same combination of incomprehension and contempt with which we regard the European elites...

Ha ha. What former finance minister Alexey Kudrin thinks is a bug is actually a feature.Sanctions will result in Russia having to rely one its power as a sovereign currency issuer, which it should have been using from day one. According to ex-minister, the country will be forced to widen the use of the national currency in payments. "This sanctions story creates huge risks for transactions in more stable currencies. This will trigger the use of the ruble even if it turns out more...

What, then, is US policy in the Middle East—under Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton (and even earlier)? When all the rhetoric has been stripped away, we can identity quite clear, precise, and fairly consistent major strategic policy positions. First, Washington accedes to almost anything that Israel wants. This is an untouchable posture, a third rail, beyond any debate or discussion lest we anger the powerful Zionist lobby of AIPAC and end up being labelled “anti-Semitic.” The New York...