Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Sayonara, ‘America First’! We Hardly Knew Ye!
President Donald Trump’s cancellation of his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Buenos Aires G20 is another sign of the now almost certain demise of his declared “America First” agenda – and perhaps of his presidency. Supposedly decided in response to a Ukraine-Russia naval incident in the Kerch Strait, dumping the...
It’s Time to Stop Appeasing Putin – Here’s How to Deter the Emboldened Russian President
MUNICH – There are few better places in the world than here to reflect on the need to end Western appeasement of Vladimir Putin and his growing list of international crimes. The latest was last Sunday’s Russian attack on Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea — and its purpose of asserting Kremlin control over its still-sovereign...
‘Anti-Russia Neocons’ in US Office Plotted to Cancel Trump-Putin Talks – Scholar
US President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel his G20 talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin reveals how easily he is swayed by the neoconservative hawks he appointed who exploited the Kerch Strait incident, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Director Daniel McAdams told Sputnik. ‘The President [Trump] has spent decades...
Trump Cancels Meeting With Putin
‘Better no meeting than a bad one,’ says the Atlantic Council’s Daniel Fried Hours after the Kremlin confirmed a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald J. Trump on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires on December 1, the US president cancelled the appointment with his Russian counterpart citing the continued...
It’s a Borderful World
Nation-states: what a quaint notion. As a means of organizing territory, they seem to be a brief transition period between large empires and an even larger, borderless world. Sure, nation-states might live on in the form of anthems and flags and independence days, but the idea of fixed borders just don’t make sense in a world of cell...
Global Militarization Index 2018 Europe: Trend of an arms build-up in eastern and western countries
In the course of the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the violent conflict in eastern Ukraine, relations between NATO and Russia have deteriorated severely. This can also be observed in the GMI 2018. “The pressure exerted by the United States on European NATO countries to increase their military budgets has its first effects”, Max...
Crimea Annexation 2.0
Similar to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Western powers have been confined to watching events from the sidelines without finding an effective response-so far. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Russian attack on Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea: the military aspects
On 24 November, a group of ships of the Ukrainian Navy, composed of two armoured artillery boats, the Berdyansk and the Nikopol (newly-constructed Giurza M-type units, which have been in service since 2016 and 2018 respectively) and the tugboat Yana Kapu (in service since 1974), left Odessa under instructions to join the vessels which have been...
Government analysis: All Brexit scenarios lead to lower long-term UK growth compared to remaining in the EU
Government analysis: All Brexit scenarios lead to lower long-term UK growth compared to remaining in the EUThe Government’s analysis of the long-term economic impact of Brexit, published yesterday, found that all Brexit scenarios would reduce GDP growth compared to remaining in the EU. However, it also found that “the economy will continue...
At the Centenary of the End of WWI, Is the World Safer?
President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron at the commemorative ceremony marking the centenary of Armistice Day, photo via Office of the President of the Russian FederationBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,020, November 29, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Earlier this month, world leaders gathered in France to commemorate the centenary of the...
