Marko Marjanović
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In WWII Soviet Forces Lost Estimated 7.5 Million to Combat, Accidents and Disease
Note: With the upcoming 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War just around the corner we are publishing more material related to that epic conflict that is so important to Russian collective memory. Comprehending the massive human and material losses suffered by Russians and other peoples of the Soviet Union is crucial to understanding why this is so. This article → Read More
Western Woke Elites Are in a Ceaseless Culture War on Hungary
If you listen to the Western media, you might think that in the weeks following the outbreak of Covid-19 the government of Hungary had transformed itself into a brutal dictatorship. There was a constant stream of articles claiming that democracy had died in Hungary. Opinion pieces insisted that the Hungarian government had exploited people’s concerns about the pandemic to → Read More
145,000 Ukrainians Accept Russian Citizenship in Just 4 Months of 2020
Related: Russia Makes It Super Easy for Ukrainians (and Some Others) to Get Russian Citizenship Machine translated from Russian. Russia granted citizenship to 215.9 thousand people in the first four months of 2020. This is 2.5 times more than for the same period last year, follows from the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In January-April 2019, 85.9 thousand → Read More
Belarus Ignores COVID, Holds Massive Victory Day Parade, No Masks, No Fear (Video)
“Even just the thought of betraying the traditions…is unthinkable for us.” — Lukashenko And barely a mask in sight! Belarus was the epicenter of partisan resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe 1941-1944, birthing more guerrilla resistance per capita than any other place on the continent. Now history repeats itself. Lukashenko: “This holiday is sacred for us. → Read More
What an Incredibly Useful Little Virus This Has Been for the Power Elite
I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy. But if it was, what would be any different? Christmas came early for our rulers and power elite this year. Let’s count up all the goodies covid hysteria pandemic nets them: They get to distribute hundreds of billions, even trillions in dollars, euro and pound among their friends in the name of making up for an economic slowdown amid outbreak → Read More
Handing Over Policy to Medical Professionals Is as Stupid as Handing It Over to Generals
Maybe we can win a total victory against this one specific virus, but if the cost is everything else, is it really preferable to peace with honor? Governments across Europe are declaring martial-law-like measures (I suspect driven by the media more than anyone else) but hiding behind medical experts as those who supposedly guided their actions. The problem is that asking the → Read More
Corona Is a Very Mild Virus, No More Deadly Than Many Others We Don’t Make a Fuss About
Let’s get one thing straight. In terms of capacity to kill you SARS-CoV-2-19 is an extraordinarily weak virus. The fatality rates being thrown around are all over the place, 8% for Italy, 3.4% from WHO, 2% from the early days for China. But there is a good reason to believe all of these are nonsensical. They’re accurate for what they represent, which is the ratio between → Read More
The Putin Stimulus: $30 Oil Will Be Great for the Global Economy
$30 dollar oil will be great for the global economy (and in turn, a good global economy is good for oil). At a time when the global economy is visibly losing steam, when we’re overdue for another business cycle recession, and when nobody seems to have an answer, Moscow delivered what nobody else could — a massive economic boost for the whole world. Sure there will be losers, → Read More
Erdogan Meets Putin With Weak Hand, He's Weak at Home and on the Front
49 percent of the Turkish public believes Erdogan’s incursion into Syria’s Idlib is “unnecessary”, only 31 percent are backing it as “necessary”. Even the second group is only backing it because it buys into Erdogan’s narrative that it’s about stopping the flow of refugees. The support may fall further when it dawns on them it’s really about salvaging Erdogan’s sagging global → Read More
The Excellent 'Checkpoint Asia' News Site Rebrands to 'Anti-Empire'
Anti-empire.com is shorter than checkpointasia.net, is a .com domain, and probably better reflects what the site has always been about. Except for the rebrand the site will remain as it has always been. Opposing the criminality of the empire is one focus, but broadening our horizons and learning new things is another. As is it has done until now, the site will continue to → Read More
Why Backing Checkpoint Asia Is Your Chance to Make a Stand
Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site which scours the media for the best Asia news with a geopolitical focus, plus 1st-class original journalism ranging from Russia to China to the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and free of globalist baloney. Reader-supported, please donate! They have a great Facebook page, with very good memes. → Read More
Putin Saved the Endangered Siberian Leopard and Tiger, Corporate Media Sneer
Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site which scours the media for the best Asia news with a geopolitical focus, plus 1st-class original journalism ranging from Russia to China to the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and free of globalist baloney. Reader-supported, please donate! They have a great Facebook page, with very good memes. → Read More
US Economic War on China Is a Godsend for Russia
Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site which scours the media for the best Asia news with a geopolitical focus, plus 1st-class original journalism ranging from Russia to China to the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and free of globalist baloney. Reader-supported, please donate! They have a great Facebook page, with very good memes. → Read More
Russia’s $30 Mil Corvettes Have 4X Firing Range of $2 Bil US Destroyers and Cruisers
Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site which scours the media for the best Asia news with a geopolitical focus, plus 1st-class original journalism ranging from Russia to China to the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and free of globalist baloney. Reader-supported, please donate! They have a great Facebook page, with very good memes. → Read More
Russia on Track for 3rd Straight Year as World’s Biggest Grain Exporter
Checkpoint Asia is an excellent news site by a former deputy editor of ours crucial to RI between 2014 and 2019. Best news and commentary ranging from Russia, to China, to Imperial misadventures in the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and with an anti-Empire bent. → Read More
Royal Navy Building 'Littoral Strike Groups' to Help Uncle Sam Bully Third World
Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site which scours the media for the best Asia news with a geopolitical focus, plus 1st-class original journalism ranging from Russia to China to the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and free of globalist baloney. Reader-supported, please donate! They have a great Facebook page, with very good memes. → Read More
US Ambassador to Russia: Each of Our Carriers “Represents 100,000 Tons of Diplomacy”
Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site by a former deputy editor of ours crucial to RI between 2014 and 2019. Best news and commentary ranging from Russia, to China, to Imperial adventures in the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and with an anti-Empire bent. → Read More
Lesson Learned: Russia Is Now Doing in Venezuela What It Failed to Do in Yugoslavia, Syria
Pushing for the US to start an air war against Syria in 2012 Hillary Clinton argued in her emails that Russia would not “stand in the way”, just as it had done “little more than complain” when the US and its satellites bombed Yugoslavia in 1999: The second step is to develop international support for a coalition air operation. Russia will never support such a mission, so there → Read More
Russia Bought Nearly as Much Gold as All the Rest of the World Combined in 2018
Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site which scours the media for the best Asia news with a geopolitical focus, plus 1st-class original journalism ranging from Russia to China to the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and free of globalist baloney. By a super-talented former deputy editor of ours of many years. → Read More
How US Made Russia the World Leader in Air Defense
Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site which scours the media for the best Asia news with a geopolitical focus, plus 1st-class original journalism ranging from Russia to China to the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and free of globalist baloney. By a super-talented former deputy editor of ours of many years. → Read More