Moscow Furious Demands Answers As US Delays Summit; Pokrovsk Disaster Worsens UK Kiev Briansk Strike
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Budapest confusion. EU 12-point plan for Russia surrender. Hungary, Romania refinery hit. VW trouble
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Window of Opportunity for Peace is Closing - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

By Alexander Mercouris

We are soon approaching the first anniversary of the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s Baathist government in Syria.

Assad himself and his family are in exile somewhere in Russia, probably in Moscow. As widely reported in the media the man whose Jihadi militia overthrew him and who is now Syria’s interim President - Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, aka ‘Abu Mohammad al-Julani - also recently visited Moscow where he had a very friendly meeting with Assad’s friend and erstwhile protector President Putin of Russia. The Kremlin has published the opening comments Putin and al-Sharaa made at the start of the meeting http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/78213.

Most of the commentary about al-Sharaa’s visit to Moscow has centred on the future of the Russian bases. Here I will briefly state my own view, which is that most commentary is getting this topic the wrong way round, assuming that it is the Russians who want to remain, whereas the reality is that it is al-Sharaa who is trying to persuade the ...

The Trump administration's Ukraine 'policy' - if it can be dignified with that name - is descending into chaos, with a telephone conversation between Lavrov and Rubio described initially as 'constructive' now spoken of as a 'disaster', and with a summit meeting in Budapest which Trump himself almost certainly proposed alternatively on and off again, so that the Hungarians are now anxiously trying to find out what is actually going on.

Trump himself seems not to know his own policy, agreeing with Putin in Alaska that a ceasefire is unworkable and saying so in writing, telling Zelensky on Friday to withdraw from Donbass or be 'destroyed', and then just hours later appearing to call off a summit with Putin because the Russians won't agree to the very ceasefire he agreed with them in Alaska was unworkable.

I know there are some people who see some strategy here. I am finding it increasingly impossible to do so. To me it looks more like the bewildered responses of a confused old man in a...