Free Republic

LIST OF FAILS FOR THE WEST DUE TO THE UKRAINE PROXY WAR 🇺🇦👉🤦‍♂️ The minute that the US stole Russia’s 300 billion dollars in foreign reserves and demanded that every nation pay homage to mini-Führer Zelenskyy and hate Vladimir Putin, a chain reaction began:•The US surrendered its death grip on possessing the world’s reserve currency which it has enjoyed since 1945.•The US surrendered its Petrodollar agreement with Saudi Arabia and the GCC which it has enjoyed since 1971.•Nations sold off their USD reserves and US Treasury bonds at a breakneck pace due to high US domestic inflation and interest rates.•Nations...

A report published on Friday is claimed to have come from a Russian FSB agent It claims that Russia's chances of achieving victory in Ukraine are non-existent Even if Putin's forces are able to capture of kill President Zelensky, the report says that occupying Ukraine would require too many resources for Russia An analyst from investigative journalism group Bellingcat said he showed the report to FSB sources who said they had 'no doubt it was written by a colleague'

A Russian attack helicopter makes a menacing low pass over a rural village in Ukraine, its gunship fully equipped with missiles and machine guns. But, unknown to the crew of the state-of-the-art Mi-24 Hind aircraft, Ukrainian soldiers are waiting unseen in the line of trees below. -snip- Their deaths came on a day when Russian aerial forces lost as many as eight aircraft, as well as multi-role, strike and close air support aircraft and a drone. Their losses, claimed by Ukrainian military sources, provide further evidence of Russia's failure to gain air superiority – a tactical advantage that Vladimir Putin...

According to a Norwegian International Affairs researcher, the images people in Russia are being shown by the official media are far from the brutal reality of the Ukraine war. Russian president Vladimir Putin is reportedly painting a completely different picture of his ongoing invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. For people only consuming Russian media, it comes across as there being an ongoing "special military operation" in Ukraine, which has the aim of protecting the people of East Ukraine against the so-called nationalistic government in Kyiv. Russian state television aired a short statement by Putin last week, where he described Ukrainian president...

When television showed the burning American Embassy in Belgrade and crawling APCs (carrying Serbian policemen who had no desire to disperse Serbs with Molotov's cocktails), I wondered how soon will the Americans recall international law and the Vienna Convention, which safeguards the immunity of diplomats and embassies? They were very quick. But an appeal by Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to the Serbs to respect international law sounded somewhat ridiculous. What is he talking about? He and his colleagues violated it themselves last Monday by recognizing Kosovo's independence. It is strange to hear words of indignation when the situation...

The fledgling failed-state of Kosovo -- an entity that is as lacking in economic viability and political stability as the Palestinian territories -- is also a great boon for the global jihad. It is true that Kosovar Muslims by and large do not subscribe to radical Islam. But it is also true that they have allowed their territory to be used as bases for Al Qaeda operations; that members of the ruling Kosovo Liberation Army have direct links to Al Qaeda; and that the Islamic world as a whole perceived Kosovo's fight for independence from Serbia as a jihad for...

Just four years ago it was not unusual to find wanted war criminal Ratko Mladic enjoying himself at one of Belgrade's finer dining establishments or getting drunk and belligerent at a football match. Hailed as a war hero and protected by President Slobodan Milosevic and the Serbian army, the former Bosnian Serb general was living the good life in retirement. In contrast, try to imagine Himmler or Mengele attending opening night at the Vienna Opera House in 1950. Mladic remained on the payroll of both the Serbian and the Bosnian Serb military for years after he was indicted for war...