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Russia invades Ukraine – 5 essential reads from experts
By Naomi Schalit, The Conversation This is a frightening moment. Russia has invaded Ukraine, and certainly those most frightened right…
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Putin’s antagonism toward Ukraine was never just about NATO – it’s about creating a new Russian empire
By Emily Channell-Justice, Harvard University and Jacob Lassin, Arizona State University As some Western observers have feared, Russian President Vladimir…
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“They”, the Blob, want to go eye to eye with Russia
You can insult them, call them the “Blob”, “group thinkers”, or even worse. You can challenge their scholarship and their…
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Russia risks another Chechnya
By Oliver Mihell-Hale The brutality of the Chechen wars still lingers in the minds of the Russian Public. Two bloody…
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What are false flag attacks – and could Russia make one work in the information age?
By Scott Radnitz, University of Washington In the past few weeks, U.S. officials have warned several times that Russia plans…
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Russia on the warpath? Or is peace at hand today?
Just before former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev made his stunning criticism of the West that, since the fall of the…
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Joe Biden’s secret target in Ukraine
The US will take advantage of the Ukrainian crisis to try to replace Russia’s European energy dependency (40% of the…
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The chickens are coming home to roost
Are the West’s chickens coming home to roost? If the Western powers had gambled 2% of NATO’s budget and met…
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Russia has legitimate security concerns; the West needs to back off
By Richard E. Carroll For over a hundred years, the West has characterized Russia as a menacing and frightening boogeyman,…
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Turkish Israeli rapprochement on the Eastern Mediterranean: geostrategy and possible reflections on military project of PESCO framework
By Mehmet Bildik The Permanent Structured Cooperation, or PESCO, is one of the building blocks of the EU’s Defense policy.…
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