Section: Atlantic Council (USA)
Ukraine News Roundup | November 18
Dealing with Putin: How to Keep US-Russian Tensions from Going Critical via National InterestRussian ‘Deniable Intervention’ in Ukraine: Why and How Russia Broke the Rules via Chatham House Obama Calls Out Russia: ‘You Don’t Invade Other Countries’ via New York TimesPoroshenko Says Ukraine Prepared for ‘Total War’ as...
Ukraine News Roundup | November 14
Now That Russia Has Invaded Ukraine Again, Let’s Stop Pretending a Ceasefire Ever Existed via New RepublicAs Putin’s Threatens Eastern Europe, Ukraine’s Defense Is What Will Contain Him via PoliticoSentenced to Death by a Crowd: Justice Under a Russian-Proxy Warlord of Eastern Ukraine (Video) via Vice News Putin’s Revised...
Trashing Friends Puts America Last
US President Donald J. Trump’s flirtation with a purchase of Greenland got ugly on August 20 when he tweeted that he was putting off his planned state visit to Denmark because Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wouldn’t discuss the sale. The president triggered this blow up with an ally, a democracy that had sent troops to...
It’s Time to Invite Georgia to Join NATO
On a visit to Tbilisi in March, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg reiterated a decade-old promise: Georgia will eventually join the Western military alliance. However, despite Stoltenberg’s comments, there is little discernible evidence to suggest membership for Georgia is in the cards. At NATO’s Bucharest Summit in 2008, the...
US Sen. Chris Murphy Warns Allies to Be Vigilant About the ‘Quiet Things’ Russia is Doing
Says Russia funding ‘fight clubs and biker clubs’ in the Baltic States to exploit domestic instability US Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on April 3 warned NATO allies to be “constantly vigilant about the very quiet things that the Russians are doing that could ultimately lead to a traditional military confrontation.” Pointing to Russian support...
Ukraine’s Presidential Election: How a Comic Secured the Most Votes and Won a Ticket to Round Two
The outcome of the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election on March 31, in which a TV comedian received almost twice as many votes as the incumbent president, is a reflection of the level of “disenchantment” with the “state of domestic affairs,” according John E. Herbst, director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and a...
What Makes an Ally? Sweden and Finland as NATO Partners
When NATO kicked off Trident Juncture, its largest collective defense exercise in decades in Norway in October 2018, militarily non-aligned Sweden and Finland not only contributed substantial troops, they were actively involved in planning the exercise from the start. Over the years, Sweden and Finland have moved closer to NATO, more so than any...
Revisiting the Narrative About Hungary’s Relationship with Russia
Editor’s Note: This article is a response to Stephen Blank’s essay, Putin’s Energy Strategy Is More Ambitious than You Think, which was published by the Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert blog on January 4, 2019. Since arriving in Washington in the summer of 2017, I have grown somewhat baffled by the narrative about Hungary,...
International Support Urged For Ukraine in Face of Russian Aggression
“There is a war going on in the middle of Europe. A very hot war,” according to Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Ukraine’s vice prime minister for Euro-Atlantic integration, who urged policy makers to confront this “uncomfortable truth” about Russian aggression. Speaking in a panel discussion hosted by Ukraine House Davos in Davos, Switzerland,...
Opposition to Nord Stream 2 Gathers Steam on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Natural gas pipeline would connect Russia to Europe Opposition to Nord Stream 2—a pipeline that will transport natural gas from Russia to Germany while bypassing Ukraine—is building on both sides of the Atlantic. On December 11, the US House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution expressing opposition to Nord Stream 2. The nonbinding...
