Against the backdrop of the prospect of a US-brokered peace deal between the Zelensky and Putin governments, the Ukrainian military has launched another incursion into Russian territory.
After three years of war, the Putin regime is increasingly unable to control its explosive social consequences, which have exacerbated the internal contradictions of Russian capitalism.
The Russian ruling class is hoping that a negotiated settlement with the United States over the war in Ukraine will give it some relief as falling oil revenues and military-industrial expenditures blow a hole in the federal budget.
On Sunday, the New York Times published an extensive article on US involvement in the Ukraine war entitled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” which admits that “America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.”
The deal is already under question, as the European Union made clear on Thursday that it will not honor terms that the Kremlin insists must be implemented for the arrangement to go forward.
Today’s “coalition of the willing” summit in Paris aims to escalate Europe’s military intervention in Ukraine, based on plans for rearmament requiring draconian austerity against the working class.
Berlin, Paris, London, and the other European governments intend to reduce their military dependence on the US by implementing unprecedented attacks on the working class.
Russian troops are on the verge of recapturing all territory seized by Ukraine in an offensive in Kursk last summer, imparting an air of crisis to calls by US President Donald Trump for a 30-day ceasefire in the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
President Trump and Vice President Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House on Friday, exposing the crisis caused by the failure of the war in Ukraine and growing tensions between the US and its European allies.
Three years after the start of the Ukraine war, the narrative used by the imperialist powers to justify their provocation and escalation of the war is being exposed as a pack of lies.
The film depicts the world of sex workers convincingly, before evolving into a type of dark “screwball comedy.”
The European response to Trump is no less reactionary than the fascist president’s own policy. It is to rearm, rearm and rearm some more.
The announcement by President Donald Trump that the United States would “immediately” begin negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine has plunged European politics into a deep crisis.
Whatever the hopes for “peace” with Trump by the Russian oligarchs, within a few weeks after the elections, it has become evident that Trump's pre-election statements on a “peaceful policy” were empty demagogic promises.
Across Russia, hundreds of cabbies, if not more, have parked their vehicles and refused to take calls during rush hour this week.
Both this visit and his subsequent trip to Poland were held very much under the shadow of the incoming Trump administration, with Britain and the NATO powers unsure how fully Trump will commit to the Ukraine war and how much more he will demand the European powers contribute.
The ending of Ukraine’s long-standing role as transit route for Russian gas to Europe continues to exacerbate already existing tensions within Europe as the NATO proxy war heads into its third year
Ukraine is now waging drone warfare across Russia, and there is growing speculation that Russian air defenses may have mistaken the jetliner as a drone and hit it.
Fidan’s visit is part of Ankara’s efforts to increase its influence over the future of Syria and the HTS leadership, and to eliminate the Washington-backed Kurdish forces.
The killing is the latest in a series of extremely provocative measures taken by the United States and NATO with the intention of escalating the Ukraine war in the weeks before the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump on January 20.
