Category: SPECIAL UKRAINE REPORT

Australia announced last week that it will spend about 30 percent more on its military over the next two decades—its largest boost in spending since the Vietnam War. The budget will allow the country to increase its uniformed personnel to 80,000 and help modernize its defensive response to threats in the region Russia and China....

Go back to 26 February. Totally dismissing negotiating for peace and ignoring America’s long track record of launching wars across the globe that have killed millions (as has the U.S. media), President Joe Biden said there were only two options following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “Go to war with Russia, physical… or two make sure...

Last Tuesday, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said the country will not attempt to join NATO due to concerns that its effort will further inflame the continent amid the Ukraine War. Andersson said the effort would “further destabilize the security of this particular region of Europe and increase tensions in Europe, and Sweden would contribute...

Last Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the sanctions that have choked off Russia from Western countries are “akin to a declaration of war.” “Thank God, it has not come to that,” he said. Putin told reporters that his aims regarding Ukraine has not changed since the beginning of the war. He wants “demilitarization and...

Since the start of the Ukraine War, the Western media has featured headlines and photos of civilian deaths resulting in Russia’s attack on Ukraine. As a result of this focus, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been portrayed as a murderous dictator while increasing the public’s hatred for the general Russian population. For example, The New...

Last week, the White House said it wants $32.5 billion in emergency aid to keep fighting the COVID War and to help fight the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The aid will include $22.5 billion for more vaccines, antiviral drugs, and testing—and $10 billion for military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. The request was delivered to...

The Metropolitan Opera in New York announced last week that it aims to “ring the alarm” in its fight against oppression by refusing to work with any Russian artist who backs President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine. Peter Gelb, the general manager of the opera house, said in a statement obtained by CNN that the Met believes...

The Global Times, which is owned by the Chinese Communist Party’s flagship paper, accused the U.S. of trying to pit other countries against Russia after it invaded Ukraine despite Washington being the “root cause” of the tension leading up to the conflict. The U.S. is in “no position to ask other countries to follow it closely”...

Western news outlets have framed Russia’s invasion in Ukraine as “unprovoked,” which a media watchdog says “obscures” the U.S. entanglement in the country’s history. FAIR, (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) the national media watchdog group, cited the chorus of headlines that included the word “unprovoked” to describe the Russian invasion from news sources like Vox, CNBC, and Axios....