🛡Any political solution – however theoretical, at this point – would involve Moscow sitting with the collective West.

Kiev had become a bystander 👀

💬 Alastair Crooke writes

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🗽America’s War on Russia in Ukraine: A Background

RAND Corporation’s 2019 report “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia” specified “cost-imposing options that the United States and its allies could pursue across economic, political, and military areas to stress Russia’s economy and armed forces and the regime's political standing at home and abroad.”

This infographic shows the measures that the report’s authors believe would bring the highest benefits.

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🔮 The Ukraine war ‘bubble’ is deflating as the U.S. and Europe reach the bottom of the arms ‘inventory barrel’.

💬 Alastair Crooke writes

#UkraineCrisis #Europe #oil

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