Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’ in ‘Geopolitics’

The trend is that Zelensky’s oligarchic faction is declining as the intelligence and military ones respectively represented by Budanov and Zaluzhny rise with all that entails for Ukraine’s future. · Andrew Korybko · Several factions exist within Ukraine. The main ones are Zelensky’s ruling clique (who himself represents a collection of oligarchic interests whose engagement with him used to be managed by Yermak), former…

Alex Krainer · Following on from yesterday’s report about the strange relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and his activities with some of the highest-level political operatives in Great Britain. A different, but similarly sordid affair has been brought into the limelight in UK proper, the rape gang affair, which some have called “the greatest peacetime crime and coverup in British history.” · As a reminder, starting apparently in…

The Western European political class is virtually uniform in its hatred of Russia, the foreign minister has said · NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Brussels, Belgium, December 14, 2023. ©  Dursun Aydemir / Anadolu via Getty Images · [RT] Much of the Western European antagonism towards Russia is driven by revanchist aspirations rooted in the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II,…

Designating the Lower Saxony AfD chapter as a surveillance priority is politically motivated, the party has said · FILE PHOTO: Delegates and visitors arrive at an AfD Lower Saxony party conference. ©  Julian Stratenschulte / picture alliance via Getty Images · [RT] Authorities in the German state of Lower Saxony have designated the local chapter of the right-wing AfD party a surveillance priority, citing what they called…

How Brussels’ Digital Services Act has been used to pressure platforms and electoral control in member states · Romania’s 2024 presidential election was already one of the most controversial political episodes in the European Union in recent years. A candidate who won the first round was prevented from contesting the second. The vote was annulled. Claims of Russian interference were advanced without public evidence. · At the time,…

Rubio named it: "managed decline." Barbara Boyd traces the 1975 Trilateral blueprint that built Europe's censorship machine to enforce it — and explains why Trump is dismantling all of it. · At the Munich Security Forum, Secretary of State Marco Rubio publicly rejected America’s role in managing the West’s “decline,” calling deindustrialization a deliberate policy and warning that mass migration is destabilizing the West. He then…

His known friendship with Putin, whom he used to advise, could be spun by the Europeans to manipulate Trump into thinking that Putin is already plotting grave violations of a future Ukrainian peace deal, abandon his mediating role as a result, and then escalate the conflict. · Andrew Korybko · Sergey Karaganov, a highly respected Russian expert with prestigious think tank roles who previously advised Yeltsin and Putin, is once again calling…

Clandestine · You might not have noticed it, but Trump and his team have been giving the public a crash course on the Deep State. · The JFK files were Deep State 101. The message was that JFK was killed for trying to expose the “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy”, that had embedded itself within our government. JFK was assassinated because he was trying to expose and destroy the Deep State. · Then a few months later, Tulsi came out…

Policymakers fear that Trump might agree to reduce or even fully withdraw US troops from NATO’s Eastern Flank as part of a deal with Putin, which is why Poland wants a permanent American base. · Andrew Korybko · Poland’s publicly financed TVP World reported on journalist Dorota Gawryluk’s claim that President Karol Nawrocki considered proposing a quid pro quo to Trump in Davos whereby his country would join the Peace Board in exchange for…

Stewart Battle - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio bemoaned the post-war contraction of “the great Western empires” during his speech at the Munich Security Conference. Credit: U.S. Department of State · The world strategic situation is defined by the various efforts to revitalize imperialism on the one hand, and on the other this dying system’s conflict with the efforts of the Global South to establish a new, more just world system.…