The West must stop blocking negotiations between Ukraine and Russia

October 25, 2022 by Vijay Prashad

Ukrainians have been paying a terrible price for the failure to ensure sensible and reasonable negotiations from 2014 to February 2022, which could have prevented the invasion by Russia in the first place, and once the war started, could have led to the end of this war. All wars end in negotiations, but these negotiations to end wars should be permitted to restart.

The West must stop blocking negotiations between Ukraine and Russia (archived)

NUCLEAR TENSIONS: CIA Chief Visits Kiev, Russia Warns of Dirty Bomb False Flag Attack From Ukraine

CIA director made a secret visit to Ukraine to meet Zelenskyy and pledge deeper US support

CIA director William J. Burns made a secret visit to Ukraine to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pledge deeper US support, CNN reported Wednesday, citing two sources familiar with the trip.

Burns traveled to Kyiv earlier this month, CNN said. His trips are usually kept secret, The New York Times reported.

Video via Rachel Blevins

Biden Orders Progressives to Denounce Themselves on Ukraine

Biden Orders Progressives to Denounce Themselves on Ukraine

Congressional “progressives” are cowards and charlatans. They may actually believe in some of what they claim to espouse but at the end of the day they are more opportunistic than anything else. They have carved out a niche for themselves in certain parts of the country where voters are in fact progressive and want to see their political ideology put into practice. But good luck ever seeing that when the leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus makes a fool of herself and her members when they didn’t have the courage of their very slim convictions.

According to Ryan Grim, Kevin McCarthy didn’t say that he would stop funding Ukraine. He was basically referring to his voters.

Douglas MacGregor issues a dire warning that US is preparing for direct military engagement with Russia over Ukraine

Speaking with former judge Andrew Napolitano in a recent interview (uploaded yesterday) and embedded below, Col. (ret.) Douglas MacGregor, a former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, says:

Douglas MacGregor issues a dire warning that US is preparing for direct military engagement with Russia over Ukraine

House Progressives Swiftly Walk Back Letter Asking Biden to Pursue Russia Diplomacy

ON MONDAY MORNING, 30 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus sent a letter to the White House that attempted to gingerly open a conversation about a potential diplomatic end to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The door was slammed shut by the evening, met with enough fury to elicit a “clarification” in the form of a statement from caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal.

House Progressives Swiftly Walk Back Letter Asking Biden to Pursue Russia Diplomacy

They need to grow a backbone!

Russian DM Calls Counterparts To Warn of Coming False Flag but WaPo accuses Russia

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke with US, UK, French and Turkish officials cautioning Kiev was preparing a dirty bomb attack

Russian DM Calls Counterparts To Warn of Coming False Flag

Meanwhile, WaPo’s clickbait:

Western powers warn Russia could use ‘dirty bomb’ claim to escalate war (archived)

It’s almost like they’re encouraging Ukraine to use a dirty bomb, themselves!