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  US regime willing to escalate Ukrainian conflict Washington’s recent maneuvers reveal US wants to take conflict to its ultimate consequences By Lucas Leiroz | Aletho News | May 12, 2022 Once again, the US seems to be the side most interested in taking the Ukrainian conflict to its ultimate consequences. A law recently signed by Joe Biden threatens to escalate the dispute in Eastern Europe to extremely dangerous levels, increasing NATO’s support for Kiev in order for the Ukrainian forces to be able to continue fighting for a long time even without any material chance of real victory. On May 9 the US president signed the “Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022”, leading to a new phase in Washington-Kiev relations, in which Americans will be authorized to streamline and de-bureaucratize the process of sending military aid to Ukrainian forces. The objective of such a maneuver is to banish any procedural obstacle to the agility of bilateral military partnership, encouraging ...

  Flags of Russia and Belarus (illustrative). (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Russia-Ukraine war: Russia, Belarus suspended from OECD Ukraine and Russia account for a third of exportable wheat globally. Egypt, often the world's largest wheat buyer, had relied on their grain for the majority of its wheat imports. By AARON REICH, REUTERS Published: MARCH 9, 2022 15:54 Russia and Belarus have been suspended from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. OECD member states instructed the body's secretary-general to formulate plans to strengthen support for Ukraine, including measures to support its economy, as noted in a statement on the OECD website. The European Union on Wednesday agreed to extend the sanctions on Russia and Belarus, imposing them on 160 different individuals and amending regulations to make the sanctions on the two countries more aligned. The reason for this, the EU said in a statement, is to ensure that...

  Creating New Enemies by aletho BY PHILIP GIRALDI • UNZ REVIEW • MARCH 1, 2022 It should come as no surprise that many observers, from various political perspectives, are beginning to note that there is something seriously disconnected in the fumbling foreign policy of the United States. The evacuation failure in Afghanistan shattered the already waning self-confidence of the American political elite and the continuing on-again off-again negotiations that were by design intended to go nowhere with Iran and Russia provide no evidence that anyone in the White House is really focused on protecting American interests. Now we have an actual shooting war in Ukraine as a result, a conflict that might easily escalate if Washington continues to send the wrong signals to Moscow. To cite only one example of how outside influences distort policy, in a phone call on February 9th, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett advised President Joe Biden not to enter into any non-proliferation agreemen...

  Ukrainian servicemen of the 24th Brigade are seen outside of Zolote, Ukraine on January 27, 2022 [Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency Moscow responds after US ‘cherry picked’ from Russia’s security proposals by aletho RT | February 17, 2022 The US has “failed to provide a constructive answer” to all the key elements of Russia’s proposals on security guarantees, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an official response to Washington on Thursday. The 10-page document was handed over in Moscow to American ambassador John Sullivan. Washington has “cherry picked” some “convenient” topics out of a set of “indivisible” proposals and has further “twisted” them to create security advantages for the US and its allies, the ministry said, in an assessment of America’s security proposals. Such actions “raise doubts” as to the US’ willingness to improve European security, the Russian diplomats have added. “Our ‘red lines’; our key security interests and Russia’s sovereign right to defend th...

Human Rights Watch's Sarah Margon, April 9, 2019. Biden’s BDS Activist’s Nomination ‘in Limbo,’ Blocked by Idaho Republican By David Israel President Joe Biden’s nominee for the State Department’s top human rights envoy has reached an impasse in the Senate confirmation process, and the post of running one of the president’s biggest foreign-policy priorities has been stuck in limbo for months, Foreign Policy reported on Monday (Biden’s Pick for Top Human Rights Post Stuck in Nomination Limbo). The nominee, Sarah Margon, slated to become assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor (DRL), is mistrusted by the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Idaho Sen. James Risch, because of her anti-Israel tweets. In one of those tweets, dated Nov. 19, 2018, Margon wrote: “Airbnb to remove listings in Israeli settlements of occupied West Bank. Thanks, Airbnb, for showing some good leadership here. Other companies should follow suit.” And after the NY ...

  U.S. President Joe Biden speaking in the White House on the U.S. raid in Syria against ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, Thursday. Credit: Sarah Silbiger / Reuters Killing of ISIS Chief Was an American Success. But the Group Will Live On Dr. Zvi Bar'el. The U.S. operation in Syria sends a message to the Shi’ite militias in Iraq and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, but it’s unlikely to deter the Islamic State Hajji Abdullah Qardash, aka Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi or, to use his real name, Amir Mohammed Said Abdel Rahman al-Mawla, has been “taken off the battlefield,” according to U.S. President Joe Biden. The killing of the Islamic State leader, heir to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is undoubtedly an intelligence and operational success, even if it took three years to find him. According to intelligence assessments, al-Qurayshi commanded around 10,000 militiamen who have carried out dozens of attacks in Iraq and Syria. He was also apparently responsible for the break-in a...