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Political Commentary and Geopolitics Article by Laura Ruggeri, 29 March 2022.https://laura-ruggeri.medium.com/is-russia-losing-the-information-war-79016e0ee32e On March 10, 2022 when CIA director Bill Burns addressed the US Senate and declared “Russia is losing the information war over Ukraine”, he repeated a claim that had already been amplified by Anglo-American media since the start of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine. Though his statement is factually true, it doesn’t tell us why and mainly reflects the […]

Russia plans to abandon all “compromised” currencies in gas payment settlements, it was announced on yesterday (23 March 2022). This followed what Russia said was illegitimate decisions by a number of Western countries to freeze Russia’s assets, which had destroyed all confidence in those “compromised” Western currencies. As a consequence, in future “unfriendly countries” will have to pay for Russian gas in Rubles. Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said this month that Russia […]

From the Straits Times, March 19, 2022.By Kishore Mahbubani, Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the author of ‘Has the West Lost It?’ Could we have predicted this war in Ukraine? And could we have prevented it? The simple answer to both these questions is yes. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal and has to be condemned by the international community. And it has been condemned. As […]