Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Biden’s transition team is filled with war profiteers, Beltway chickenhawks, and corporate consultants
An eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks have been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the agenda for his administration. A substantial percentage of them worked in the United States government when Barack Obama was president. The appointments should provide...
Neocons Poised to Join New Government
Donald Trump was much troubled during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns by so-called conservatives who rallied behind the #NeverTrump banner, presumably in opposition to his stated intention to end or at least diminish America’s role in wars in the Middle East and Asia. Those individuals are generally described as neoconservatives but the label...
How did 5 million hectares disappear? Secret land privatisation in Ukraine
On 6 November, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, announced during the presentation of the results of the economic audit of Ukraine that 5 million hectares of agricultural land had disappeared from state ownership. He thus confirmed the words of the head of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (also named, the State...
America Rejoins the World?
America may well be divided about Donald Trump, but the rest of the world isn’t. The soon-to-be-former president has gotten high marks in the Philippines and Israel, a passing grade in a couple African countries and India, and dismal reviews pretty much everywhere else. U.S. allies in Europe and Asia are particularly relieved that Joe Biden...
Russia’s Stake in the Nagorno-Karabakh War: Accident or Design?
As the world discusses the sudden cessation of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh and the deployment of Russian “peacekeepers”, one critically important question is overlooked. Why did Russia not discourage Azerbaijan’s military offensive? A powerful security rationale implies a strong Russian interest in deterring a war that might change the...
US Color Revolution: The Not So Phantom Menace
“There is no civility, there is only politics…The Bureaucrats are in charge now…”— Senator Palpatine The Black Revolution in the US is proceeding according to script. We are into the 3rd act of it. Act I was the Coronapocalypse setting the stage for vastly expanded government powers and the systemic undermining of the sitting President. Act II...
Trump’s loss not necessarily Russia’s
By Steven PiferIt took some time to count the ballots, but the American electorate has rendered its judgement. While there may be legal challenges and a recount or two, Joe Biden will become the 46th U.S. president next Jan. 20. This outcome will displease some in Moscow. The Russian government, in particular its security services, worked to...
NATO Declares Biden White House Will Finally Confront ‘Assertive Russia’
With Joe Biden declared president-elect by a chorus of major networks in unison on Saturday, the same mainstream media has suddenly dropped any notion of ‘Russian interference’ in the election which for years had received wall to wall coverage. Over the weekend an MSNBC host went so far as to declare without evidence “This might...
Geschichte als Instrument der Innen- und Außenpolitik am Beispiel Russlands
Die derzeitige russische Führung legt großen Wert darauf, die über Jahrhunderte hinweg bestehende Kontinuität der russischen und sowjetischen Geschichte zu betonen. Historische Brüche sind in der offiziellen russischen Darstellung der eigenen Geschichte unerwünscht und negativ konnotiert. Gepflegt wird eine Kultur des Sieges, vor allem aufgrund...
Examining Ukraine’s “Hardware of Memory:” An Interview with George F. Kennan Fellow Viktoriia Svyrydenko
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