Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Did Pompeo Go Off Reservation in Iraq Attack?
I have to wonder who Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is actually loyal to. Because, the U.S. strike of Kata’ib Hizbullah forces near the Al Qaim border crossing with Syria in Iraq is a dangerous escalation there.And it’s completely at odds with Trump’s goals of wanting us out of the Middle East. The Al Qaim border crossing is a...
Impeachment Is a Distraction: Heavily Scripted Vote Demonstrates That Democracy Really Is Dead
Watching the impeachment “vote” was hard work. With only a few exceptions, each Congressman rose for roughly 90 seconds and provided a prearranged, almost completely scripted-along-party-lines explanation of how he or she was casting one’s ballot. After four grueling hours of hearing self-serving lies like “no one is above the law,” I was...
Trump Administration Officials Worried Ukraine Aid Halt Violated Spending Law
Image credit: istockIn the News quoting Jack Goldsmithvia Center for Public IntegrityBut key details of what they said to one another are again blacked out in documents released to the Center for Public Integrity under court order …read more Source:: Hoover...
What to Watch in 2020
The most important thing to watch in 2020 for everyone in the transatlantic space – and not just there – is of course U.S. presidential politics. The year will start with the impeachment trial of President Trump, only the third in the country’s history. As Trump seems all but certain to survive impeachment, the next spectacle will be the...
More Distractions Loom for the US in 2020
Donald Trump, photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr CCBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,378, December 22, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Impeachment hearings in the US have overshadowed important geopolitical developments in Eurasia that will affect Washington’s position in 2020 and beyond. The US’s failure to improve relations with Seoul and...
By impeaching Trump, Democrats have made him more powerful than they could ever imagine
From coast to coast, the Resistance is cheering the impeachment of President Donald Trump in the House. They shouldn’t be. For in seeking to destroy him, they have only made him more powerful, and undercut themselves. Let’s not mince words: Wednesday’s vote was the culmination of efforts that began on November 8, 2016, with...
The Afghanistan Fiasco and the Decline and Fall of the American Military
A devastating investigative report was published in the Washington Post on December 9th. Dubbed the “Afghanistan Papers” in a nod to the Vietnam War’s famous “Pentagon Papers,” the report relied on thousands of documents to similarly expose how the US government at the presidential level across three administrations, acting in collaboration...
The Real Shadow Policy of the Trump Administration Is Racist Extremism
The Democrats are pursuing two charges in their impeachment of Donald Trump: First, that the president tried to enlist Ukraine’s help for his own political gain. And second, that he’s continued to obstruct Congress in its investigation into this abuse of power. Trump’s transformation of the Oval Office into both a branch of his...
Can Recep the Magnificent Sort Out Libya?
This title is not intended to trivialize the very serious nature of the deadly conflict in Libya; the situation is an ever-escalating humanitarian disaster, and has been since US State and NATO destroyed the country in 2011. On December 14th an air cargo transport of Belgian FN arms from Ostend was supplied to Misrata rebels by a United Arab...
NATO Must Survive
North Atlantic Council meeting at NATO headquarters, 2018, photo via NATO Flickr CCBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,374, December 17, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent urgent push by NATO to provide a defensive framework to Poland and the Baltic states is by no means a false alarm intended merely to shore up a sense of common purpose during...