THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA - YouTube Last Saturday, Russia was shaken by the armed mutiny of 25,000 mercenary soldiers led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the private militia the Wagner Group. Having captured the city of Rostov-on-Don, occupied military installations in Voronezh, and marched to within 200 kilometres of Moscow, they abruptly turned back. How did a maverick private army accumulate … [Read more...]
The disastrous state of the Russian army, a faithful reflection of the perversions of the dying Putinism
by Yorgos Mitralias Why is Putin now "massively" bombing Ukrainian cities? Why is he sending his missiles against their infrastructures and populations? Why is he massacring civilians? Simply because he has already lost the war! Because his army can't break the resistance of the Ukrainians. Or rather, because his army is retreating, accumulating defeats, demoralized and in … [Read more...]
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE – 20 MAR 22
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE - 20 MAR 22 - YouTube Discussion introduced by Michael Roberts (Author of The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism and of the blog The Next Recession). The economic war between the US-led NATO group and Russia is hotting up alongside the real war in Ukraine itself. In response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the US … [Read more...]