Section: US & Canada
Loss and Aggression
From TPM Reader VI …Regarding your post today about Russia – it should not at all be underestimated despite weak economy and diminished status. I wrote to you in August of 2008 during Russia’s incursion into Georgia, saying that they also have ideas for Crimea and the Baltic states. You actually published my comment during those...
A Blueprint for Donald Trump to Fix Relations with Russia
Graham Allison, Dimitri K. Simes Politics, Eurasia A policy memo to the president-elect. Priority: high. THE TWO Chinese characters that make up the word “crisis” can be interpreted as meaning both “danger” and “opportunity.” Russia today offers your administration not only a serious challenge but a significant opportunity. Russia is no longer...
NATO Seeks to Allay Concerns at Meeting With Russia
NATO will seek to reassure Russia on Monday that its troop deployments to the Baltics and Poland next year are purely defensive, in a rare meeting of the alliance’s envoys with those of the Kremlin that is unlikely to resolve long-standing grievances. The NATO-Russia Council, the forum bringing together North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Ukraine Nationalizes Country’s Largest Bank
The Ukrainian government says it will nationalize the country’s largest bank in an effort to avoid a financial collapse in the former Soviet republic that is locked in a military and political standoff with neighboring Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine to nationalize its biggest lender, PrivatBank
The finance ministry in Ukraine will take over the bank, which is partly owned by one of the richest man in the country. …read more Source:...
Ukraine: Five Troops Killed In Clashes With Separatists
Ukraine says five of its troops have been killed in clashes with pro-Russian separatists, in some of the worst fighting to hit the eastern Donbas region in months. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Obama cozied up to China and battled Putin. Trump is doing the exact opposite.
Get ready for some turbulence. President Barack Obama has spent his two terms in office working to build closer ties with China while seeking to isolate and punish Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Eight years later, Moscow is subject to painful US sanctions and continued public criticism from Obama and his aides. Beijing is a key economic partner...
ExxonMobil helped defeat Russia sanctions bill
ExxonMobil successfully lobbied against a bill that would have made it harder for the next president to lift sanctions against Russia, clearing the way for the oil giant to restart a program worth billions of dollars if Donald Trump eases those restrictions as president. The company’s effort could be helped by outgoing CEO Rex Tillerson,...
The worst Cabinet: Donald Trump made some horrible picks for his government
Gary Cohn; Rex Tillerson; Rick Perry (Credit: AP/Kathy Willens) President-elect Donald Trump continued to staff his upcoming administration with longtime residents of the very swamp he promised to drain. Let’s take a look at the three worst ones. Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state Perhaps one of Tillerson’s signature business...
Timeline: Ten Years of Russian Cyber Attacks
After cyber intrusions against former Soviet states like Georgia and Ukraine, Russia began meddling with Western powers like Germany and the U.S. …read more Source:...
