Last month on September 22nd in a speech to the assembled delegates of the United Nations, the president of the United States stood before national representatives of the world and threatened mass destruction — “Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly…”
Category: Russian Federation
A Late Night Post from Zelenskyy
How is the world going to react as the war in Ukraine takes a turn for the worse as the US president announces a deal to sell Russian diesel oil on the international market with a freeze on attacks… a freeze immediately broken by one of the largest attacks of the war accompanied by […]
Another Month, Another War Continues
We understand that the US is on record stating that the newest war in the Mideast is a “defensive war”. It isn’t. The newest war was launched as an offensive operation. It can be, should be, described as a continuation of the ‘Bush Doctrine’, of a pre-emptive war as memorialized in ‘shock and awe’ war […]
Escalation
A Day in a War (Provocation and Escalation)
New “Normality’ between Russia and U.S.?
On 18 December 2024, the Russian News Agency TASS publishes an official announcement from the Deputy Foreign Minister, Serge Ryabkov that Russia is open to considering proposals from the United States aimed at restoring relations to “normality”
Missed Opportunities Led to Russia-Ukraine War
As the war in Ukraine moves into a tenth year of conflict and over a thousand days of a war Russia calls a ‘special operation’, the escalating war’s reality pushes new nuclear strategies and, as a new U.S. president comes on stage, Strategic Demands recalls a man who speaks of how we got here…
Russian Disinformation Targets US
Breaking News presented via Google Wrap Up: After the 2016 US election documented a “Great Hack” of data breaches, foreign-campaign disinformation, and online targeting, who can say that today’s headlines of “DOJ Bombshell” are anything but more of the same CyberWar. Online manipulation, cyberattacks, hacking, disinformation wars resound
Nuclear Ratcheting
Russian nuclear exercise drills held near the border with Ukraine are meant to send a message. The message is sent, a message similar to the US-NATO alliance’s F-35A with new configurations for stealth delivery of nuclear weapons by alliance countries
Putin Promises ‘Victory’
An ’emboldened Putin’ … meets with the Russian and international press and promises victory in his first formal news conference that Western media were allowed to attend since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022 (AP and international wire services)
Blowback Far Beyond Gaza-Israel
Acknowledging the seemingly insoluble problem of the Middle East wars, now in a Gaza-Israel incarnation, few believe there are solutions to interminable conflict. The history is one of ‘begats’. After all, it’s ‘Biblical’, right?
Agreement Announced after Russian Federation Internal Crisis
In midst of crisis in Russia, Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, declares that Russian president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has made “the wrong choice… soon we will have a new president”. Hours later, a “plan” is announced
F-16s and NATO, Russia and US
Years of failed negotiations between the Russian Federation, NATO, EU and US that led to war in Ukraine has entered a next phase. Not a new phase, but a ‘next phase’. The delivery of F-16 fighter systems delivers a next level of fear and loathing — and more that is not in the open
Xi Meets with Putin in Moscow
No public promise made that weapons from China are to be provided to Russia to wage war in Ukraine. The alliance and expressed friendship between presidents XI and Putin are center stage.
Nuclear Arms Race 3.0
A multi-billion dollar ‘modernization’ of US nuclear weapons delivered an unsurprising ‘next gen’ nuclear arms race. Strategic Demands called this a “Cold War 2.0”. Now, with threats and an announced ‘suspension’ of the New START treaty, the final remaining nuclear weapons agreement is foreclosed. A “Nuclear Arms Race 3.0” commences
Nowhere to Hide from a Nuclear War
With a nod from Strategic Demands and associated GreenPolicy360 to former Governor of California, Jerry Brown, our long-time political friend and associate, who joined Governing Boards of Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and Nuclear Threat Initiative upon leaving office and has continued to speak out strongly on the increasing danger of nuclear weapons … https://thebulletin.org/2022/10/nowhere-to-hide-how-a-nuclear-war-would-kill-you-and-almost-everyone-else […]
Nuclear Threat Ratcheting Up — Hot Spot Ukraine War Flashpoint
October 2022 After Six+ Months of War in Ukraine — Conditions Are Going from Bad to Worse StratDem Editor: Some would say it’s “Code Red” as the Russia-Ukraine war escalates on the ground and in strategic war rooms. Six plus months after the February 24, 2022 Russian ‘invasion’ into Ukraine, the war widens […]
Vladimir Putin Speaks of Annexation and Russian Politics
“Presidential address on the occasion of signing the treaties on the accession of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia” Following is the full text transcript of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech, published by the Kremlin’s official website. September 30, 2022, The Kremlin, Moscow: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69465 Citizens of Russia, citizens of […]
