Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Impeachment Theater
Ukrainegate is the new Russiagate. The “whistleblower complaint” is the new “dirty dossier.” The ‘former’ MI6 spy Christopher Steele wrote the dossier. The current CIA spy Eric Ciaramella wrote the “complaint”: Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over...
Europe 1989-2019: Lessons learned 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
The 30 years since the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 have been marked by incredible progress toward a Europe “whole and free.” The European Communities became the European Union, grew to 28 member states, and helped raise living standards across the continent. NATO survived the end of the Cold War and expanded to 29 members. But...
John Yoo: No, I Didn’t Call Alexander Vindman A Spy. But Ukraine Did Engage In Espionage
Image credit: istockAnalysis and Commentaryvia USA TodayI really stepped in it this week. In the course of a Fox News interview, host Laura Ingraham began with a breaking news account about Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert and director of European Affairs on the National Security Council (NSC). …read more Source:: Hoover...
Future multilateral cooperation: Leveraging the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Two Years on
In: Other papers/articlesFuture multilateral cooperation: Leveraging the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Two Years onRussia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 stimulated greater defence cooperation throughout the Baltic littoral. Concerns about Russian aggression have once again made deterrence and territorial defence a priority for NATO and...
The Islamic State and Donald Trump’s Delusion
Even before the recent raid that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the erstwhile head of the Islamic State, Donald Trump had spoken of how he had single-handedly defeated the caliphate. “Now, when I came, the caliphate was all over the place,” the president said apropos of nothing during a news conference with the Australian prime...
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Deep State And It’s Feeding The Anti-POTUS Mob
The prepared statement of the latest UkraineGate whistle-blower is well worth the read. It tells you all you need to know about why the Deep State apparatchiks are coming out of the woodwork in a massive assault on America’s duly elected president. They are deathly afraid Trump will begin to dismantle a far-flung Empire which has- wreaked...
Russia returns: Navigating U.S.-Russia relations
What’s going on with Russia? Managing U.S.-Russian relations is one of the most important priorities for any American administration. Russia is an active player in key global issues, and with its enormous nuclear arsenal, is the only foreign state that represents a true existential threat to the United States. And yet, the relationship...
BICC Annual Report 2019 Research in the field and advisory activities in regions with ever-changing violent conflict settings
In his foreword to BICC Annual Report 2019, Professor Herbert Wulf, founding director of BICC from 1994 to 2001, praises the development of the peace and conflict research institute that celebrates its 25th anniversary this year: “BICC has risen to the new challenges and developed diverse, practice-oriented research and advisory projects”. With...
Putin’s Policies Are Not New
Meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, photo via Office of the President of RussiaBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,329, October 30, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It has become fashionable to link Russian foreign policy moves of the past 20 years solely to President Vladimir Putin and his close associates. But what is viewed as innovative...
Lebanon Color Revolt? Back To Syria… Impeachment Blues.
Today’s Liberty Report will rip three top stories from the headlines and break down what the mainstream media is not reporting on them. What’s really going on as Lebanon’s government continues to melt away in the face of sustained protests? What’s the new US goal in Syria and what is the chance of achieving it? And...
