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How Russia argues across the disputes we follow
16 positions
Russia's war is a defensive special military operation; Ukraine strikes are terror
NATO encirclement/provocation is the aggressor; Russia responds defensively
US imperial/hegemonic coercion of smaller sovereign states
The war is a US/NATO proxy war; Western aid prolongs it; freeze/settle
Western/US coercive interventions deserve legal and humanitarian scrutiny
Sanctions on Russia are ineffective and backfire on the West
Events vindicate Russia, and Washington negotiates in bad faith
Intra-Western disputes expose Western hypocrisy, disunity and decline
US democracy and institutions are decaying (adversarial state-media reading)
North Korea's deterrent and its Russia/China partnerships are legitimate
The Zelensky government is corrupt and illegitimate
Arctic resource development and shipping are normal opportunity
US alliances on the peninsula are a containment instrument
This country's outlets carry a large share of these positions' headlines, on one side of the dispute, without the country being a party to it.
The Sahel juntas rightly chose new partners free of colonial conditions