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?
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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”.
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.”
Gen. Apti Alaudinov: In June 2012, when he was only 38 years old, Alaudinov became the youngest top General in Russia’s modern history. During the fight in Chechnya, Apti’s father and older brother were killed in battle with Dudayev’s forces, as well as many family members. Since 2022, he is the Secretary of the Economic and Public Security Council of the Chechen Republic. Here’s all about the SMO and beyond – as in the possible attack on Iran – seen by the ultimate warrior-intellectual insider.
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2010-2014), Nikolai Azarov: Mr. Azarov is also co-chairman of the National Unity Club. This is extremely special: here he is interviewd by the one and only George Galloway and myself – on the exact day of the 4th anniversary of the SMO. Azarov delves into how the SMO, which many considered short-term, escalated into a protracted war.
In an extremely poignant testimony, Azarov calls what’s happening a personal tragedy: after all his whole life is connected with both Russia and Ukraine. He goes back to Kiev’s course after 1991; Maidan – which he interprets as a coup d’etat; and the escalation around Donbass as key factors that led to the SMO.
He also details how weapons supplies, financing and intelligence from NATO countries have made the war inevitably protracted.
And now for the two bonuses
Then these past few frantic days in Moscow offered two bonuses – which may be particularly appealing for a global audience.
A little over a week ago, Larry Johnson was in Florida, and myself in Moscow: we ended up interviewing each other on the whole kabuki regarding Iran, just as Larry had received the best info from his CIA sources that an attack on Iran was imminent. The Big Picture of course remains.
Then The Fates also intervened – in this matryoshka of auspicious coincidences: George Galloway and myself interview each other in a Moscow studio.
We talk about West Asia; why is the transfer of 50% of US aviation to the Gulf not an exercise, but an agony; what are Epstein’s unreleased files hiding; why doesn’t Iran capitulate; BRICS vs. NATO: If Iran is attacked, will China stand up? Will Russia act? Why has the United States not yet realized that the Global South will no longer allow aggression?
Here it is: from Moscow, with Grit. Dig deeper – this is really something special.
