News Round-Up
18 October 2024
by Will Jones
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Volodymyr Zelensky has suggested that Ukraine would seek nuclear weapons unless it is given NATO membership as it needs a strong deterrent against Russia.
The West "provoked" the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nigel Farage has said. The expansion of NATO and the European Union gave Putin "an excuse" to go to war.
NewsGuard has established itself as a major force in the mass-censorship of online dissent, working with the U.S. Government and others to discredit and demonetise websites that question official information.
In April 2022, M.L.R. Smith and Niall McCrae drew on their extensive Cold War knowledge to offer provisional analysis of the Russian war in Ukraine. Eighteen months later they look back at how their conclusions held up.
The Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has hit back at the defunding of the defence industry in the name ESG, saying it threatens peace and security. But do the woke activists care?
Time is not on the side of Ukraine in its long-running counter-offensive, says Colonel Richard Kemp, as it is battling not just against the strongest Russian defences but also the clock of U.S. electoral politics.
All our mainstream media have claimed that the Wagner mutiny has weakened Putin. But the evidence suggests the opposite, writes David Craig, after the Russian leader swiftly faced down the threat.
When Maria Chaplia contracted a nasty skin infection last year, she hopped on a flight back to her native Ukraine, where she was immediately treated in a health system that she says is much better than the creaking NHS.
According to a leaked Russian government opinion poll, popular support for the war in Ukraine is beginning to weaken. Twenty-five per cent of respondents want the war to continue vs 55% who want a negotiated settlement.
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