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Wishing you and yours a happy 4th of July!

July 4, 2024

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We will return Monday July 8th.

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Gordon Hahn: Berdyaev and the Ukrainian War

landmarksJuly 3, 2024

Gordon Hahn, in this fascinating and wide-ranging overview, unearths aspects of Russian philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev’s thought that have heretofore received little notice in the West: for example, Berdyaev’s belief in the indivisible unity of Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia.

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George Beebe: The Coming Russian Escalation With the West

TIME July 2, 2024

To judge from the editorial pages and Capitol Hill currents that both shape and reflect Washington’s perceptions of the world, the doomsayers sounding alarms over the risk of direct military conflict between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine have been proved wrong.

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Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick: Prolonging the Ukraine war is flirting with nuclear disaster

RSJuly 2, 2024

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons announced that global spending on nuclear weapons rose 13 percent in 2023, with the U.S. again leading the way. This is happening even though the U.S. already spends almost five times as much as China, its nearest competitor. U.S. nuclear weapons spending over the past five years has increased by 45 percent, trailed by the U.K.’s 43 percent.

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Jouke Huijzer: To Become NATO Chief, Mark Rutte Denied Israeli War Crimes

JacobinJuly 2, 2024

It’s not expected that Rutte will deviate much from the political line of his predecessor Stoltenberg. But he has proven extremely obedient to the United States and willing to flexibly adjust when holding on to his position requires so.

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ACURA’s Nicolai N. Petro: On the Philadelphia Inquirer’s new interview with President Zelensky

ACURA EXCLUSIVEJune 30, 2024

Trudy Rubin’s June 30th interview with President Zelensky, published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, left out some salient details about how Zelensky intends to move his peace plan forward. These have been highlighted in the Ukrainian press, and might be of interest to others.

The full interview, and time stamped transcript, are available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMkPNU4W53c.

Below is my translation:

20:36 Ukraine can find a model … a solution. The model was applied for the first time using the example of grain corridor . . We agreed with the United Nations and with Turkey. They took upon themselves the responsibility to negotiate with us in a tripartite agreement, and then sign an agreement with the Russian side, and that’s how it worked. Two mirror agreements between the UN and Türkiye were signed with Ukraine, and separately signed with representatives of Russia. It worked.

21:40 We can talk in the same way about territorial integrity, energy, and free navigation; an appropriate model can be found … countries from different continents, so that no one says that this is only … Europe and the United States … prepare decisions regarding this or that crisis, and then [present – NP] a document. If it satisfies Ukraine, then it is dealt with by representatives of the Russian Federation.

46:27 The war will end in any case. We took the first step with the peace summit. We will still prepare a document. We will try to do everything so that this document gets to the table of representatives of Russia, and so that various strong countries try to end this war justly. Certainly, in some formats and dialogues. To be sure, the war will not end so that tomorrow we will all be happy … it can’t be done quickly, but a document can be prepared so that some of the issues are no longer resolved by bullets, but in one or another format of dialogue, over the course of a year, or two.

 

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Jeffrey Sachs: Save Ukraine from American meddling

the hill June 30, 2024

Ukraine can only be saved at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. Sadly, this point is not understood by Ukrainian politicians such as Oleg Dunda, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, who recently wrote an oped on this site against my repeated call for negotiations.

Dunda believes that the U.S. will save Ukraine from Russia. The opposite is true. Ukraine actually needs to be saved from the U.S.

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Matt Bivens, M.D.: U.S. Cluster Bombs Kill Russian Children at Beach

substack June 28, 2024

The war in Ukraine is escalating now with terrifying rapidity.

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Lucy Komisar: Riveting “Patriots” on Putin-Berezovsky conflict is part fact, part propaganda

the komisar scoop June 28, 2024

“Patriots,” written by British playwright Peter Morgan and directed by Rubert Goold, on Broadway after a successful run in London, is based on Brits and Americans having “no idea” of the story it tells. It makes it possible for Morgan to mix fact and propaganda, even in a careless moment admitting as much.

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Christopher S Chivvis: Admitting Ukraine to Nato would be a mistake for both Ukraine and Nato

the guardianJune 27, 2024

Ukraine is expected to make a renewed push for membership in the military alliance. The US must oppose the proposal.

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Eli Clifton: World spending on nukes explodes to more than $90 billion

RSJune 27, 2024

Worldwide spending on nuclear weapons rose by $10.8 billion between 2022 and 2023 with 80% of the increase coming from the United States, according to a new report released on Monday by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

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Statement from Germany’s Forum DL21: Stop playing with fire: Against the militarization of politics

June 26, 2024

We are concerned that several Western governments, including Germany, are now allowing Ukraine to attack targets on Russian territory with weapons supplied by them.

[Read more…] about Statement from Germany’s Forum DL21: Stop playing with fire: Against the militarization of politics

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Sahra Wagenknecht: Condition of Germany: Interview by Thomas Meaney & Joshua Rahtz

new left review June 26, 2024

My impression is that Washington never really tried to stop the Russian invasion, other than by military means. With Ukraine moving fast towards eu and nato membership, it must have been clear that some sort of agreed security regime was needed as reassurance for the national-security interests of the Russian state. But the us ended all arms-control treaties and confidence-building measures in 2020, and in the winter of 2021–22 the Biden Administration declined to talk to Russia about the future status of Ukraine. You don’t need ‘revanchist Great Russian nationalism’ to explain why Russia thought it could no longer look on as Ukraine was turned into a major base for nato.

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US Conference of Mayors: The Imperative of Dialogue in a Time of Acute Nuclear Dangers

US Conference of Mayors ResolutionJune 25, 2024

The United States Conference of Mayors calls on the U.S. government to work to re-establish high-level U.S.-Russian risk reduction and arms control talks to rebuild trust and work toward replacement of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the only remaining bilateral nuclear arms control treaty, set to expire in 2026.

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VIDEO: Armenia: The next target of Washington’s “war party” with Dr. Pietro Shakarian and James W. Carden

armenia168June 25, 2024

The host of the 168.am news program Arthur Khachikian, PhD, hosts Shakarian and Carden for a wide-ranging discussion on US policy in the Caucasus.

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VIDEO: Nicolai Petro on the Ukrainian “Peace Summit”

pascal LottazJune 24, 2024

The peace summit did not go the way it had been envisioned, the thin outcome document, despite blaming Russia for the war, does not address any of President Zelensky’s main demands. What does this mean for the state of the war and for the possibility of real negotiations in the future?

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Ed Lozansky: Was it the search for the road to peace or the continuation of war?

pluralia June 24, 2024

From the G7 summit in Italy to the conference in Switzerland on Ukraine: no tangible results, while the armed conflict is claiming more and more victims.

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James W. Carden: Putin’s Peace Offer: Deal or No Deal?

TACJune 21, 2024

In the end it may come down to options, as in: Who has more of them? Despite the fulsome rhetoric coming out of last weekend’s “peace conference” near Lucerne, Switzerland, Zelensky seems to be running out of them, while Putin—with yet another six year mandate, a strong economy, the (implicit) backing of China, a larger army and population, and a military industrial complex churning at full blast—has quite a few more.

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Paul Grenier: American Messianism

landmarks June 20, 2024

Americans have a tendency to assume that their opponents are evil.

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Anatol Lieven: Yes, we can reconcile absurd Russian & Ukrainian peace plans

RSJune 20, 2024

Details emerging about talks to the end the war in 2022 highlight the fact that time isn’t on Kyiv’s side.

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  • Bill Bradley
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  • Christopher Charles Dyson
  • Bernadine Joselyn
  • Marlene Laruelle
  • Cynthia Lazaroff
  • Anatol Lieven
  • Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
  • Donald F. McHenry
  • Krishen Mehta
  • Ellen Mickiewicz
  • John Pepper
  • Nicolai N. Petro
  • David C. Speedie
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