Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
NATO Is Not Dying. It’s a Zombie.
How do you know when a person is positively dead? Well, check for a pulse. Walter Russell Mead checked the pulse of the Atlantic Alliance in a recent op-ed and concluded that NATO is dying. But Mead is wrong. NATO is simply a zombie periodically reanimated through various methods, usually voodoo magic. Yet, reanimation has its limits. Even...
After Crimea: Does NATO have the means to defend Europe?
Military spending may now figure in public conversation about NATO. But the alliance, at 70 years old, still lacks military capabilities strong enough to protect Europe from Russia …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Election in Ukraine: Zelenskiy is closer to the presidency
The first round of the presidential elections was held on 31 March in Ukraine. The results of exit polls conducted by both TV stations and a consortium of public opinion research centres (the so-called ‘national exit poll’) indicated that the first round had been won by the comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, while the incumbent president Petro...
Status Quo Woes in Slovakia, Ukraine, and Turkey
Elections in three very different countries share a common desire to change the status quo. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
An Increasingly Serious Black Sea Player
“The United States has proven its commitment to the security of the Black Sea region, and it has supported the newer NATO members in their efforts to focus the attention of the alliance on their needs.” – Alina Inayeh With Romania and Bulgaria joining the alliance in 2004, bringing up to three—with Turkey—the number of littoral member...
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...
The Russians Are Not Coming!
Not since the witchcraft hysteria of the Middle Ages have we seen such a display of human idiocy, credulity and absurdist behavior. I refer, of course, to the two-year witch hunt directed against President Donald Trump which hopefully just concluded last week – provided that the Hillaryites, Democratic dopes and secret staters who fueled this...
Disinfo Maginot Line: Protecting EU from ‘Russian Influence’ – by Manufacturing History
It is now apparent with the release of the Mueller investigation findings, that the great storm that has embattled the US government and establishment since 2016 over supposed Russia-Trump collusion during the US elections, originates not from a genuine tangible source, but a constant stream of rhetoric driven by partisan corporate media. One...
Kennan Cable No. 41: A Cyber Treaty With Russia
Prospects for meaningful cyber negotiations with the Russian Federation, let alone a bilateral agreement or cyber treaty, seem almost impossible to imagine today. Our anguish over Russia’s meddling in American elections, preoccupation with alleged ties between the Trump administration and the Russian government during the recently concluded...
