2025 can be seen as the year in which the united anti-Russian coalition fell apart. In essence, there are now three distinct players acting against Russia (Ukraine, Europe, the US), and each has its own interests. Analyst Sergey Poletaev has prepared a series of articles in which he analyses the position of each player, their goals and interests in the conflict, and suggests how Russia might respond. 

Ukraine and the road to ruin

The fate of the conflict, part 1: The state that forgot how to live without war

BY Sergey Poletaev

The first one concerns Ukraine.

Yesterday [TUESDAY 5 NOV 2019] I started a thread on Twitter lamenting the fact that support for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange has been eroded all across the political spectrum since 2016 by the establishment smear campaign.

Propaganda Narratives Are Custom-Made For Each Ideological Echo Chamber

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT BY THE G7, ALSO POSTED ON MARK CARNEY'S OFFICIAL PRIME MINISTER WEBSITE, HAS OMITTED THE NATO ORIGIN OF THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE CONFLICT AS WELL AS THE NAZI INFLUENCE ON THE PRESENT KIEV REGIME... WE HAVE ALSO EXPOSED THAT CANADA [WITH THE USA AND AUSTRALIA] HAS BEEN THE MAIN REFUGE FOR UKRAINIAN NAZIS AFTER WW2...

G7 Leaders’ statement on the war in Ukraine

February 24, 2026

Ottawa, Ontario

The final episode of Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ represents not just the end of Colbert’s career, but the final nail in the coffin of the ‘Orange Man Bad’ activist comedy of the early Trump years. 

After an 11-year run, the final episode of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ airs on Thursday night. Riding a wave of liberal anguish over the election of President Donald Trump in 2017, Colbert’s highly partisan brand of comedy garnered massive ratings, but as seasons went by and Colbert ditched laughs for naked propaganda, the schtick wore thin and the show’s cancellation was announced by CBS last summer.

Colbert’s finale marks the end of comedy’s ‘Orange Man Bad’ era
From Russiagate to the ‘vax-scene’ trainwreck, RT looks back at the lowlights of Stephen Colbert’s showreel...

Netanyahu’s ‘hair was on fire’ after Trump call on Iran – Axios
Israel wants to resume the war, while Washington and regional mediators push Tehran to accept a peace deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was furious after a tense call with US President Donald Trump over a new proposal to end the war with Iran, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

One US source briefed on the conversation said Netanyahu’s “hair was on fire” after the call, which took place after Trump delayed a “very major attack” on Iran, saying Gulf leaders asked the US to give diplomacy more time.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation won the Farrer by-election last week, while Nigel Farage’s Reform UK trashed the British Labour Party in local council elections. What’s behind it? Aleta Moriarty asks.

The Farrer by-election result and Reform UK’s stunning win both reflect growing frustration with mainstream politics, soaring inequality and a distrust of institutions, being captured by the populist right, and perhaps paving the way for autocracy.

The Hanson surge. Protest vote a threat to democracy?

by Aleta Moriarty

Buried (or sunk) in last week’s Federal budget was another $6 billion to be spent extending the life of the Collins Class submarines. But as Rex Patrick explains, we’ll be getting less.

On Budget night, the price of the Collins life extension went from $5B to $11B. Ka-ching! Recall, the life extension is a program that is only necessary because the Defence don’t know how to buy subs in a timely and cost-effective manner.

“Enhanced sustainment.” Collins Class subs to fight on – the true Budget hit

by Rex Patrick

The recent Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing may not have resolved major geopolitical disputes, but renewed dialogue between the United States and China represents an important step toward reducing tensions and strategic misunderstanding.

Jocelyn Chey

The indictment of former Cuban President Raul Castro by the US Justice Department marks the latest escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against Havana. Is President Donald Trump trying to repeat the Maduro playbook?

Unsealed on Wednesday, the indictment accuses Castro of ordering the shooting down of two American planes off the coast of Cuba in 1996. Castro and five of his officials are charged with conspiracy to kill US nationals, destruction of aircraft, and four counts of murder, one for each of the Cuban-Americans killed in the shootdown.

These days all the world is closely following the high-level international meetings in China. US President Donald Trump just completed his first state visit to China since his trip in November 2017. On May 19, another top foreign guest will arrive on a two-day state visit: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.

China-Russia-US relations: Zero-sum is gone for good

As Xi hosts Trump and Putin, Beijing is proving it can engage both powers at once without turning global politics into a zero-sum game...

By Andrey Kortunov

The world’s first artificial satellite, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, was launched in October 1957. Just three months later, it fell out of orbit. As Sputnik hit the upper atmosphere at incredible speed, the friction would have caused it to heat up and almost entirely burn off. Some small remnants of the satellite would have remained in the upper atmosphere, like smoke and ash after a fire: humankind’s first space debris.

Seven decades on, scientists like us are only just beginning to piece together how this space debris might be damaging the ozone layer, the climate and even human health. We still don’t know how much of this debris the atmosphere can sustain before it causes significant environmental harm.

Finance ministers from the G7 group of advanced economies were unanimous on the need to take on global trade imbalances, according to the statement released Tuesday following a second day of Paris talks. But the US decision to extend a waiver on sanctions against Russia in the wake of the US-Israeli war on Iran shows the group remains divided.

G7 finance ministers agreed on Tuesday on the ​need for action to tackle trade imbalances in a fragmented global economy, saying the current situation was unsustainable, but were light on plans for concrete measures.

As fresh fears over emerging infectious diseases grip the public once again, a new flashpoint is drawing global scrutiny: a high-containment BSL-4 laboratory in Argentina operating amid renewed debate over biosecurity, pandemic preparedness, and the origins of deadly pathogens.

Hantavirus, New Pandemic & Biosecurity Fears: Why ‘R’ New Public Health Threats Emerging in the Shadow of a BSL-4 Level Lab in Argentina?

Jeffrey Silverman

The latest alarm was triggered by reports of a rare hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius near Cape Verde — an incident that has reignited unresolved questions from the COVID-19 era and intensified concerns about how the world handles Especially Dangerous Pathogens (EDPs).

The government’s main policy instrument for reducing greenhouse gases only covers a small proportion of emissions and allows companies to offset these emissions. This is totally inadequate when the climate imperative is to rapidly reduce the use of fossil fuels.

Ken Russell

In theory, the Safeguard Mechanism should be reducing greenhouse gas emissions from industrial facilities. It applies to companies across a range of sectors, including mining, oil and gas extraction, manufacturing, transport and waste that emit more than 100,000 tonnes of CO2 each year.