Russia steals the thunder in ‘wheat war’

In a master stroke of military diplomacy, Russian Foreign Ministry announced today that it is “withdrawing” the garrison in Snake Island, the hotly contested Black Sea property from where Ukrainian forces were evicted in March in the early days of Moscow’s special military operation.  This decision comes a day after Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and …

China doubles down on vision with Russia

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Beijing, February 4, 2022  The most animating template of the West’s “information war” lately against Russia is, perhaps, its distorted projection of the China-Russia relationship in the context of the Ukraine crisis. This dubious enterprise has practical implications for the “endgame” in Ukraine, the …