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Rostislav Ishchenko: “Project” Ukraine “completed”

Putin went to the summit of the Group of Twenty (G 20), without waiting for the end of the program. Of course, the Russian president has the right to sleep on his arrival in Moscow, the more that “to work on Monday.” It is possible that the plane on which it is necessary to “eight […]

Alexander Zapolskis. Soros: EU should plunge Ukraine into a war – or bury the EU Ukraine

Smart guy named George Soros gave an interview to the German magazine Cicero. His much quoted today on both sides of the geopolitical front line. With “our side” – more ridicule. And a very good reason. Soros – a man is definitely smart. Without looking, it was clean water speculator. To make a fortune in […]

Paul J. Saunders – How Russia Sees the Ukraine Crisis

Though Ukraine’s not-quite cease-fire is far preferable to the summer’s heavier fighting, it is far from clear that it will lead to a sustainable settlement between Kiev and eastern Ukrainian separatists, Moscow and Kiev, or the United States and Russia.  A recent presentation at the Center for the National Interest by Andranik Migranyan, a well-informed […]

Paul Taylor – ANALYSIS-Security framework eyed as way out of Ukraine crisis

PARIS, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Even as tension in Ukraine mounts anew, veteran diplomats are starting to think quietly about a way out of the worst East-West crisis since the end of the Cold War. It may seem a poor time to imagine a revamped security architecture for Europe when a frail ceasefire in eastern […]

John J. Mearsheimer – Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault

The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as […]

Jerome Israel – The U.S. needs Russia [Commentary]

Instead of alienating Russians, we should be pulling them in The U.S. needs Russia. This may sound peculiar coming from a person who spent 25 years at the NSA, almost half of those fighting communism. But our approach to Russia since the end of the Cold War has been unimaginative and aggressive. Politicians in Washington […]

Michael S. Rozeff – Washington’s Grand Ambition Explains Its Pressures on Russia

After the Soviet Union ended, Washington switched without a second’s delay from an anti-USSR policy to an anti-Russia policy. This included extending NATO to Russia’s borders in violation of earlier false signals and assurances that it would not, and it included Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. It included U.S. support of […]

Neil Clark – Kosovo and Ukraine: Compare and contrast

There have been at least two countries in Europe in recent history that undertook ‘anti-terrorist’ military operations against ‘separatists’, but got two very different reactions from the Western elite. The government of European country A launches what it calls an ‘anti-terrorist’ military operation against ‘separatists’ in one part of the country. We see pictures on […]

Robert Parry – The Whys Behind the Ukraine Crisis

Exclusive: Given the very high stakes of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, some analysts wonder what’s the real motive for taking this extraordinary risk over Ukraine. Is it about natural gas, protection of the U.S. dollar’s dominance, or an outgrowth of neocon extremism, asks Robert Parry. By Robert Parry A senior U.S. diplomat told me […]

Viktor Starchikov – blogger from Kharkov: are the Ukrainians guilty of their own calamities?

Ukrainians are traitors, it is their own fault [that Nazism reins over the country now] – such is the opinion frequently expressed in the comments on my page. Let us nose into bureau drawers. When the Congress of the People’s Deputies of the Russian Federation headed by Yeltsyn was adopting the Decree on the sovereignty, […]