(2023-10-12). Fruitless "joint struggle" between nuclear states. internationalviewpoint.org On 13 September, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un met at the Russian launch base at the Vostotchny cosmodrome. The meeting was organized at Putin's insistence. Kim Jong-un's visit to Russia is aimed at strengthening military and security cooperation between Russia and North Korea. | – | / |
(2023-10-12). Russia Closing the noose on Ukrainian Troops. sonar21.com 
It is astonishing how quickly Western attention shifted from the war in Ukraine to the war in Israel. As I noted in some recent interviews, Ukraine's Zelensky is frightened and stunned by this reversal and is trying desperately to stay relevant and attract Western attention. Good luck with that. The media prefers to focus on the new narrative of Arab hordes sweeping down on Israeli civilians rather than try to come up with excuses for Ukraine's failure to even breach the first line of the Surovikin defense. One visible sign of Zelensky's panic — he changed his wardrobe. Now, when he appears in public,…