The Endgame of the Ukraine War: Two Possible Scenarios

 

The Endgame of the Ukraine War: Two Possible Scenarios. Ruel F. Pepa By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa The first possibility hinges on a sobering and potentially unsettling reality: the Western alliance of the United Kingdom, the European Union, NATO, and the United States should finally recognize the reality that they have tragically lost the fight against Russia in Ukraine. Read here

Trump’s Contronymal “Peace” with Russia. Edward Curtin By Edward Curtin With all the hullabaloo about President Donald Trump’s “peace” gestures toward Russia over Ukraine and the resetting of U.S.-Russia bi-lateral relations, it is worth remembering the “pivot to Asia” announced by the Obama administration in 2011 and the coup d’état it carried out in Ukraine in 2014. Read here

The Paladins of the West. NATO Continues to Fuel the War. Manlio Dinucci By Manlio Dinucci In the press conference at the end of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, two distinct visions of the international situation emerged. Russian President Putin reiterated that in order to end the war in Europe, it is necessary to eliminate all the root causes of the conflict and take Russia’s legitimate concerns into account, while also ensuring Ukraine’s security. Read here

From Washington to Kyiv: Who Really Blew Up Nord Stream Pipelines? By Uriel Araujo The recent arrest of a Ukrainian man by Italian authorities, suspected of involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions, has reignited debate over one of the most audacious acts of sabotage or terrorism in modern European history. Read here

Tusk Ridiculously Blamed Putin for a Bandera Flag Scandal in Poland’s Largest Stadium By Andrew Korybko Poles were furious after the flag of Stepan Bandera’s “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” was recently flown in a Warsaw stadium, the country’s largest, during a Belarusian rapper’s concert. After all, it was in his name and under this flag that Ukrainians genocided over 100,000 Poles during WWII, whose remains have yet to be exhumed and properly buried even though Kiev already did this for over 100,000 Wehrmacht soldiers. Read here

Republic of Srpska in the Crosshairs Again. Stephen Karganovic By Stephen Karganovic The political siege of Russia’s tiny Balkan ally, the Republic of Srpska, an autonomous entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, is gaining momentum. On Monday, 18 August 2025, two significant developments took place. Read here

“Economic Warfare” Directed against China? The Shanghai “COVID Zero Tolerance Mandate” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky The process of economic and social destabilization initiated in March 2020 extended its grip beyond Shanghai to several major industrial cities including the southern city of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China’s major exporting hub to the world market. Read here