Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Adapting to the Evolving Strategic Environment – Applying the Lessons of the Global War on Terror to Future Threats
Army Spc. Grant Richardson stands guard duty in a tower at Forward Operating Base Hieder in the Ninewa Province town of Rabi’ah, Iraq, on June 30, 2005. Photo taken by Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert M. Schalk, U.S. Navy, accessed via Wikimedia Commons. A career in the US Army in the last fifteen years has mostly centered on the fight...
USA Today Parrots Kremlin Propaganda on Crimea
Hopes are high in Russia that its investment in the US elections will pay off in the removal of economic sanctions and acceptance of Russia’s illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea. Since none of the conditions for waiving sanctions have been met, other methods to sell such an option are being applied …read more Source: Kharkiv...
The EU Is Thinking About Pre-Trump Sanctions on Russia
With the penalties due to expire on Jan. 31, EU governments are likely to prolong the measures for another six months because the main condition set for lifting them — full respect of a pact aimed at ending the Ukrainian war — has yet to be met. Bloomberg: The EU Is Thinking About Pre-Trump Sanctions […] …read more Source: The American...
Demographics and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Summary Advocates of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict often argue that demographics loom as an existential threat to Israel’s continued existence as a democracy and a Jewish state. However, the demographics argument presents a false dichotomy because there is no threat to a Jewish majority within Israel’s...
European Security: Has Trump Reshuffled the Cards?
“I think NATO may be obsolete.” When Donald Trump, the next president of the United States, spoke these words during the campaign, he most likely had only a vague idea of how he would act upon them. But one thing is certain: if he made the statement, it is because he knew it to be a vote-winner. And win he did. Has his election reshuffled the...
The Coup Against Truth
Jon Rappoport’s mocking of the US presstitutes is superb: Vladimir Putin is the secret president of the United States.Yep. That’s it. The US is now the USSR. It’s all over. Trump is a Communist who took orders from Putin. Trump is a Red. That was his game all along. He’s a billionaire Commie. Ridicule is effective, and...
Why Russia, Turkey and Iran are natural allies
The ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia, Turkey and Iran has opened the way to peace talks in Kazakhstan between the Syrian government and opposition. The Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, will play peacemaker and the timing of the conference will enable participation by the new US administration. However it’s not yet clear how this...
January 5th, 2017
CHINA China’s Smog Has Gotten So Bad, It’s Almost Impossible to See Skyscrapers from the Air Lydia Ramsey, BUSINESS INSIDER China’s still getting hit with intense levels of air pollution. As of Wednesday, Beijing was under a “red alert” for smog—the highest of four levels—and a “yellow alert” for fog. Other areas, particularly...
What Trump Should Understand about China and North Korea
Doug Bandow In barely two weeks Americans will learn whether Donald Trump is as smart as he claims. He triumphed over the odds to win the presidency and most of his staff picks so far look serious. But his tweets continue to raise some interesting questions. The president-elect’s recent Twitter strike was on China and North Korea. He seems...
Do the Russians want a hybrid war in the Balkans?
Russia / Europe Given the crisis in relations between Russia, the European Union, and United States – i.e. key partners and donors in the region – Russia’s attempts to enhance its influence in the Balkans are a bone of contention. Concerns raised by political leaders like former Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic,...
