Sanctions are crushing Europe's economy. Either mainstream parties will roll them back, or they’ll get voted out and populist parties will tear them up. Whatever happens, sanctions could break the Western alliance.
Are American and Ukrainian goals perfectly aligned? In an article defending Western involvement, Professor Hal Brands said, "Russia is the target of one of the most ruthlessly effectively proxy wars in modern history."
There is compelling evidence of Americans ill in 2019 with COVID-19. Yet public health officials have ignored all efforts to notify them of these cases and still claim the first US case was January 20th 2020. Why?
Since the Maidan uprising, the U.S. has taken an intense interest in Ukraine, and many of the decisions it has made seem almost designed to provoke Russia. Was this all in aid of sabotaging the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?
A graph shows a close correlation between when vaccine boosters were rolled out in the U.S. in the spring and a wave of excess deaths at a time of falling Covid deaths.
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, occupied it for twenty years, and in the process got about 200,000 people killed. What's less well known is that, after leaving, the U.S. stole $7 billion of Afghanistan’s money.
Former Trump advisor John Bolton said the quiet part out loud. Speaking on CNN, Bolton claimed, "As someone who has helped plan coup d’etats – not here, but you know, other places – it takes a lot of work."
Researchers analysed a natural experiment in Fargo, North Dakota. One school district had a mask mandate; a neighbouring district did not. However, student case rates in the two districts were identical.
A study by four economists has found that school closures in the US caused a large decline in math pass rates. This result provides yet more evidence that the switch to remote learning harmed children's education.
The US has said it will force Russia into 'default', but this is more like a confiscation of investors' assets than a true default and will backfire as investors in China and elsewhere will not be affected.
