MOSCOW – Four years on after the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022 – actually the proxy war between NATO and Russia until the last Ukrainian – no wonder every corridor of power and dinner table in Moscow, for days, was abuzz on the pros, cons and countless shades of gray embedded in this de facto vicious conflagration were Slavs kill Slavs: a dream scenario for an array of Russophobes embedded in selected EU political “elites”.
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Why is the transfer of 50% of US aviation to the Gulf not an exercise, but an agony? Why has the United States not yet realized that the Global South will no longer allow aggression?
So, from the point of view of a foreign correspondent for 40 years, editor-at-large and geopolitical analyst, the privilege of listening to top Russian analysts, diplomats and military experts at this critical juncture on the SMO and beyond, all the way to the geopolitical Big Picture, could hardly be equaled.
That happened thanks to the National Unity Club – a new, dynamic space for high-level discussion set up in Moscow (here is their YouTube channel) chaired, among others, by former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Nikolai Azarov, and premier economist and current head of the Russia-Belarus Union State, Sergey Glazyev.
My dear friend Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst, and myself are now part of what could be described as the international branch of the club.
Over two long sessions held at the TASS studios, organized by Igor Goncharenko and his tireless team, we conducted a series of interviews, especially crucial for a global audience. The interviews confirmed how it’s impossible to understand all the complex, interlocking issues revolving around the SMO without considering the analysis of these specialists.
Here is just a sample of our conversations.
Alexander Babakov: Uber-gentleman Babakov is the vice-speaker of the Duma and one the best informed players in Russia. This is our third conversation in the past three months. Babakov digs deeper on the Geneva “negotiations” kabuki – and beyond.
Andrey Gurulyov : a Duma member, retired Lt. Gen. and former commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army. Gurulyov is an absolute treasure trove of hardcore military info. He engages in a no holds barred analysis of the SMO, where “Russia is not waging war with Ukraine, but with the collective West, and retains the strategic initiative.” Gurulyov stresses that Europe is actively preparing for war with Russia, building up its armies and military-industrial complex.
Vasily Prozorov: a former SBU officer from 1999 to 2018, when he defected to Russia. Survived an assassination attempt in Moscow in 2024. Prozorov details how from Maidan in 2014, “the SBU became a machine against its own people”. Before, the SBU was engaged in the fight against crime, corruption and economic crimes. Afterwards, the main task is “to fight dissent and political opponents.”
