Jason Ross

1 day ago | eir.news | Jason Ross

On June 1, Ukrainian drone attacks targeted Russian airfields across multiple regions, causing damage to several aircraft. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS that the planes were not destroyed and that they will be repaired. No casualties were reported, and some suspects were detained, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

1 day ago | eir.news | Jason Ross

How will Russia respond to the recent, large-scale attacks on its strategic forces and civilian infrastructure? On this hangs the immediate future. Will Russia retreat and draw a new red line? Will it launch a massive retaliation, potentially including strikes on military targets located outside the territory of Ukraine but key to attacks on Russia? We are approaching a point of no return, in which nuclear Armageddon could end human civilization as we know it, ushering in a dark age of centuries.

2 days ago | eir.news | Jason Ross

In a proclamation issued on June 4, President Trump has banned foreign Harvard students from entering the U.S., further undermining the international standing of the United States as a center of research and innovation.

2 days ago | eir.news | Jason Ross

“The United States has once again abused its veto power, extinguishing the glimmer of hope for the people in Gaza and ruthlessly continuing to leave over two million people in darkness. It must face the questioning from the international community,” said Fu Cong, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, in response to the 14-1 vote on a ceasefire resolution presented to the security council on June 4. The U.S. cast the sole opposing vote.

2 days ago | eir.news | Jason Ross

“An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war. We’d lose,” writes Tucker Carlson in a post published on June 4, in response to Mark Levin’s visit to the White House to lobby for war with Iran. Carlson ridicules Levin’s claim that Iran is on the cusp of producing nuclear weapons, saying that “the same people have been making the same claim since at least the 1990s. It’s a lie.” U.S. intelligence does not believe that Iran is building a bomb.