Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Maintaining Perspective About Adversaries
By George Friedman The United States has difficulty evaluating the threat posed by adversaries. Before World War II the U.S. massively underestimated the Japanese. In Vietnam, the U.S. underestimated both the resiliency and will of North Vietnam. In Iraq, the U.S. underestimated the response to the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s regime. In...
Ukraine invites EU monitors to prevent another gas crisis
Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz has asked the EU today (19 December) to send a monitoring mission immediately to entry and exit points of Ukraine’s gas transport system, in an effort to prevent another gas crisis. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says five troops killed in worst clash in months
Ukraine said five of its troops were killed yesterday (18 December) by pro-Russian insurgents in the bloodiest clash in the war-scarred ex-Soviet republic in months. …read more Source:...
Tangible results on the road to reform in Ukraine
In signing four projects with Ukrainian officials in Brussels today, EIB will have fulfilled its €3 billion obligation to Ukraine. Instead of providing general aid, the EIB supports very specific projects, writes Vazil Hudák. …read more Source:...
Moscow court upholds inclusion of Memorial Society on ‘foreign agents’ register
A court in Moscow has flouted Russia’s own Constitutional Court and refused to cancel the inclusion of the renowned International Memorial Society from Russia’s notorious list of so-called ‘foreign agents’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Trump is on collision course with international law over Crimea
If, as US intelligence believes, Russia interfered in the US elections to get Donald Trump elected, it is certainly being rewarded for its efforts and expense …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukrainian savagely beaten in Russian-occupied Crimea then arrested
It was not enough that the only person punished after Ihor Movenko was brutally attacked was the Ukrainian himself, not his assailant. Now Movenko has been arrested and beaten, this time by the FSB to force him to ‘confess’ to extremism. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Moscow Attacks!
A senior CIA source tells me “with a high level of certainty” that Russia’s Vladimir Putin was responsibly for Pearl Harbor, the Korean War, Vietnam, and Iraq. This miscreant was also behind 9/11 and ring around the collar.Not since Dr Fu Manchu have we seen such a wicked genius bent on wrecking the West. Vlad the Bad is so...
Can Trump Construct a New World Order?
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 387 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Though he might be a novice in foreign policy, Donald Trump could bring about dramatic changes in the global arena by aligning with Russia against China. In this scenario, Russia would have an opportunity to align with Western civilization, ending a millennium-long schism. Will Russia be...
War and Democracy in the Age of Trump
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus once observed that Persian rulers indulged the habit of getting drunk when making important decisions. When sober and sensible next morning, their custom was to reconsider their decision, and either stick to it, or revise or reject it outright. They had another method of decision-making, he noted: they took...
