Tag: Putin
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Chancellor Merz compares Putin to Hitler and EU High Representative Kallas says Donbas must not fall: but will Europe hold the line?
A meeting between Europe’s foreign ministers is ongoing in Brussels today discussing the reparations loan to Ukraine. The EU Commission is scrambling to reach a deal and address the legal concerns of member-states as it rushes to address Ukraine’s budget short-fall. In her doorstep to the press, the EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said it…
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Mahmoud Abbas meets Vladimir Putin and gets nothing
There was a lot of talk but no tangible results from a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this week. Abbas who visited with a delegation of the Palestinian National Organisation met Putin along with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister, Sergey Lavrov. Last month, China claimed that it mediated…
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Putin takes a cue from Stalin and attacks one of his critics in Europe with a sledgehammer
In what is another Russian state-sanctioned attempted murder in Europe, Putin has attacked Alexei Navalny’s team member, chief of staff, and Russian critic, Leonid Volkov. An unidentified attacker shot tear gas at him outside his home and then proceeded to hit him with a sledgehammer. Someone seems to have wanted to extend the Stalinist tradition…
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Macron doubles down on French troops in Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated that France does not rule out deploying its troops in Ukraine after Vladimir Putin responded to Macron’s initial “all options on the table” discourse, by making, the usual nuclear threat and declaring that French troops in Ukraine would be the equivalent of Russia being at war with NATO. Strange,…
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A reminder of what Malta has become
Here are Russian state employees removing flowers placed on a memorial to commemorate Alexei Navalny; scenes that are all too familiar for us Maltese when state employees used to be ordered by Justice Minister Owen Bonnici to remove flowers laid in memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia at the Great Siege Monument in Valletta. Mark CamilleriWebsite…
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Alexei Navalny: A Willing Martyr
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s main opposition leader has died in prison. He was recently transferred to a new penal colony. The death of Alexei Navalny comes during the same time that American media grifter Tucker Carlson is conducting an ingratiating and propagandistic campaign in Russia’s favour. Presidential elections in Russia are set to take place in…
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What does the Emirates’ welcome to Putin signify?
Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Abu Dhabi in the UAE as part of a tour of the Arabic Gulf states where he also visited Saudi Arabia. The extraordinary celebratory welcome given to Putin during his visit to Abu Dhabi was, of course, a message aimed at the West that the UAE does not…
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Capitulation
The press is finally getting the news that France and Germany want Ukraine to capitulate. Naturally, Ukraine does not want to capitulate and it intends to keep fighting until it restores all its original borders. Leading a major European country is undoubtedly a significant challenge, especially when trying to juggle local interests, politics, and foreign…
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Israel’s relationship with Russia is changing direction
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has taken a very discrete and distant position towards Russia’s invasion of Ukraine lest such a position tars Israel’s good relationship with Russia – this discretion will wither away as the Israelis have been flustered with Russia’s position to take the lead in advocating for the Palestinians at this…
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By John Christmas. How Maltese taxpayers lose money because of the EBRD (Part 1 of 2)
I’ve been writing articles for years about the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD – funded by 73 countries including Malta to foster transparency and democracy) using fraud to help Putin-linked oligarchs steal our money while wrecking the fledgling democracies in Eastern Europe. Some of my articles were published by Maltese opposition bloggers with…
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Is Sarkozy getting paid by the Russians or what?
Nicolas Sarkozy has given an interview with Le Figaro in which he stated that Ukraine should settle for peace with Russia with independently-held referendums in contested territories. He also said that Ukraine shouldn’t join either the EU or NATO. I’m sorry, what? Not only is his position totally contrarian in principle and logic to his…
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The aftermath of Prigohzin’s coup attempt
This is a very good interview with Russian journalist Andrei Soldatov on the aftermath of Prigohzin’s coup attempt. The Russian journalist focuses on the Russian security services and has extensive sources inside Russia. Along with his analysis, I would add these points: – Prigohzin is now a potential successor to Putin and his political influence…