Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Putin Is Setting the Agenda and Forcing the West to React
Russia’s decision to intervene, and to escalate, in Syria is the product of a wide range of considerations. Some are domestic, but by far the largest set of factors has to do with securing Russian strategic interests in the Middle East and offering an alternative vision of global order growing out of a perceived decline of American power....
Ukraine PM Blames Russia For MH17 Crash As Official Crash Report Released
KIEV, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Tuesday he had no doubt Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by Russian special forces because “drunken separatists” could not have operated the missile.Yatseniuk made his charge shortly before publication of the Dutch Safety...
MH17 Felled By Russian-Made Missile, Crash Report Finds
GILZE-RIJEN, Netherlands, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board said on Tuesday in its final report on the July 2014 crash that killed all 298 aboard.The long awaited findings of the board, which was not empowered to address questions of...
What Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich Means to the ‘Russian World’
MOSCOW — Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich had long been considered for the Nobel Prize for Literature. However, there is deep symbolism in the fact that she won the award this year for work that the Nobel Committee called “a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Even if that committee had not intended any social...
Dutch Safety Board: MH17 Was Brought Down By Russian-Made Missile
AMSTERDAM, Oct 12 (Reuters) – The Dutch Safety Board, issuing long-awaited findings on Tuesday of its investigation into the crash of a Malaysian passenger plane over eastern Ukraine, is expected to say it was downed by a Russian-made Buk missile but not say who was responsible for firing it.MH17 was shot down over territory held by...
Voters Should Demand a Strategic Foreign Policy Vision from Candidates
As both parties hold presidential debates, issues in the nation’s foreign policy inevitably will be discussed. After all, although the U.S. Constitution actually gives Congress more authority in foreign and defense policies than the president, chief executives, ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt, have wielded the constitutionally narrow role...
Obama Clashes With Steve Kroft On Putin, Syria In ’60 Minutes’ Interview
President Barack Obama exchanged testy words with “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft on Sunday over Russian President Vladmir Putin and the Syrian conflict.When asked about the effectiveness of his administration’s strategy in the ongoing Syrian civil war, a defensive Obama admitted he was initially skeptical about training...
Checkmate: Obama’s Syrian Disaster
Sukhoi Su-25 fighters landing at Basel al-Assad air base in Latakia, September 2015 The Syrian Civil War is entering a third and potentially very dangerous phase in its continuing evolution. It began as a purely domestic crisis, became steadily internationalized as other countries intervened, and it now risks becoming a full blown...
Should the U.S. Cooperate with Russia on Syria and ISIS?
by Deana Arsenian Vice President, International Program and Program Director, Russia and Eurasia, Carnegie Corporation of New YorkUS President Barack Obama with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2014 APEC summit in China (GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images) Much has been said about Russia’s intensified military involvement in Syria and its...
Why Turkey Aims for ‘Zero Problems’ With Russia’s War in Syria
ISTANBUL — Since the outbreak of the Arab Uprisings in 2011, Russian president Vladimir Putin has been the most dependable ally of the Assad regime in Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, by contrast, has incessantly called for the overthrow of the Damascus government. While Erdoğan has made a concerted effort to organize and...
