Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The EU should sanction Sberbank and other Russian banks as it ponders banning Russian oil and gas
The European Union (EU) had a vigorous early response to Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, aimed at disrupting Russia’s financial system and economy. Ending EU imports of Russian hydrocarbons would be a powerful next step and is an absolute priority. But other actions can and should be taken… …read more Source::...
An Oligarchy Expert Answers Our Questions About Wealth and Empowerment
Ever since the Ukraine invasion provoked sanctions against Russian oligarchs, it seems everyone is asking: Who is an oligarch? And why do Americans feel comfortable employing the term to describe Russian billionaires while many recoil at the thought of labeling U.S. billionaires the same? Could it be the pervasive belief that American...
Putin Learns A Lesson Washington Knows All Too Well: Military Power Can Kill People, But It Can’t Change Them (From Forbes)
Vladimir Putin apparently launch Russia’s invasion of Ukraine believing that resistance would collapse quickly. The opposite has occurred: the Ukrainians fought back fiercely to defend their culture and identity. Moscow now realizes if it wants to pacify Ukraine, it will [Read More…] The post Putin Learns A Lesson Washington Knows All...
What is Ukraine’s best security guarantee?
By Steven Pifer …read more Source::...
The Dilemma at the Heart of Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO Membership Bids
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine calls for more caution, not less. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
When the Left Is Right…Far Right
In the twentieth century, the left defined itself as anti-fascist. It was against Franco in Spain, Hitler in Germany, and Mussolini in Italy. During the Cold War, progressive opposed far-right dictators like Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. It mobilized against neo-Nazis in Germany, right-wing militias in the...
The world must not allow Putin to bankrupt Ukraine into surrender
The post The world must not allow Putin to bankrupt Ukraine into surrender appeared first on Atlantic Council. …read more Source:: Atlantic...
Give War A Chance
Robert Kagan, neoconservative writer and husband to Deputy Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, wrote a piece called “The Price of Hegemony” in Foreign Affairs last week that was fascinating. If I’d written his opening, people would denounce me as a Putin-concubine: Although it is obscene to blame the United States for Putin’s...
Western Dissent from US/NATO Policy on Ukraine is Small, Yet the Censorship Campaign is Extreme
If one wishes to be exposed to news, information or perspective that contravenes the prevailing US/NATO view on the war in Ukraine, a rigorous search is required. And there is no guarantee that search will succeed. That is because the state/corporate censorship regime that has been imposed in the West with regard to this war is stunningly...
Russia’s Ukraine operation has no deadline
In his first extended remarks in nearly a month about the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that peace talks had reached a “dead end” and pledged that Russia’s “military operation will continue until its full completion.” Putin defined a more limited aim for the war, focusing on control of the Donbass —...
