Section: The Weekly Standard (USA)
How to End Putinism
Putin enters a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 17, 2015. Newscom “Russia is a friendly, European country,” said President Vladimir Putin in a 2001 address to the Bundestag in Berlin. Putin told German lawmakers he applauded European integration, believed in the unity of European culture, and was convinced that no one had benefited...
Putinformation
And Friedrich begat Vladimir. NEWSCOM Traveling recently in what might be called “new frontline” states—Estonia, Ukraine, and Moldova—I was struck by the depth of concern I encountered about Russian propaganda. And not just propaganda aimed at the Russian population and neighboring countries. At a conference in Tallinn, a Politico reporter and...
The Lesson of Doggerland
Earlier this month, the G7 met in Bavaria; its seven members are the major European and North American economies, plus Japan. The G7 is the successor to the G8—Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been suspended, having invaded and annexed parts of Ukraine, and now actively making mischief on NATO’s Baltic border. ISIS, meanwhile, is murdering...
In Macedonia and the Balkans, Russia Throws Down the Gauntlet
A Kiev-based Ukrainian friend, after meeting a delegation of young Russians, emails me: “totally terrible, young Russian diplomats. Manipulation, propaganda, gloating over victory in Eastern Ukraine, this new generation even worse than before. We will have big trouble with Russia for a very long time.” …read more Source: The...
Kerry to Meet Putin in Sochi
Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Vladimir Putin in Sochi, the State Department announced today. They are expected to discuss Iran, Syria, and Ukraine. …read more Source: The Weekly...
The Answer to ‘Hybrid Warfare’
Troops from the U.S. Army Second Cavalry Regiment in Estonia, March 22 Newscom It’s an especially tense time for the Baltic states and Russia’s other Western-leaning neighbors. Wariness with regard to Vladimir Putin and long-term Russian intentions toward the “near abroad” has long been the norm here, well before the 2007 cyberattack...
A Blueprint for Failure
Reciprocal restraint, Putin-style: Russian tanks in eastern Ukraine, February 2015 NEWSCOM A half-century of estrangement is over, President Obama declared late last year, in a surprise announcement that he was transforming U.S. policy towards Cuba. …read more Source: The Weekly...
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
The tenuous (and likely temporary) truce in Ukraine may have put another feather in German chancellor Angela Merkel’s cap: It seemingly vindicates her Diplomatie statt Waffen (“diplomacy instead of weapons”) stand against Obama. And it’ll be a while before everyone wakes up to how Russia uses the freeze to consolidate territorial...
The Situation in Ukraine Is …
… “getting worse every day” and Western efforts to deter Russian intervention are having little effect … …read more Source: The Weekly...
War Talk: Ukraine
The CBC reports that: …read more Source: The Weekly...
