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A Survey of Peace Initiatives to End the War in Ukraine

May 12, 2023

Over the past few months, there have been reports of peace initiatives by China, Brazil and the Vatican. Today we highlight some of those efforts.

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Reuters: Brazil’s Lula calls for ‘peace group’ to broker Ukraine-Russia deal

reutersMay 12, 2023

The Brazilian president told reporters in Abu Dhabi, where he finished a trip to Asia, that he was trying to gather a group of leaders that “prefer to talk about peace rather than war.”

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AP: Vatican No 2 confirms Russia-Ukraine peace mission plans

APMay 12, 2023

The Holy See’s No. 2 official confirmed Wednesday the existence of a Vatican peace “mission” to try to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, days after Pope Francis raised eyebrows with an offhand revelation of a secret operation that was already underway.

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France24: Zelensky, Xi speak for first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

F24May 12, 2023

Brussels welcomed the conversation between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Ukraine‘s President Volodymyr Zelensky, thought to be their first call since Russia invaded Ukraine.

“It is an important, long overdue first step by China in exercising its responsibilities as a member of the UN Security Council,” said European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer.

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China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis

FMPRCMay 12, 2023

The Chinese Foreign Ministry released a 12-point proposal on the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which said, in part, that “Universally recognized international law, including the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, must be strictly observed.”

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Wolfgang Streeck: A Bipolar Order?

new left review May 11, 2023

French aspirations to ‘strategic autonomy’ for ‘Europe’ (and ‘strategic sovereignty’ for France) stand a chance only in a multipolar world populated by a good number of politically significant non-aligned countries, quite similar to what the Chinese seem to want. To what extent this implies some kind of equidistance to the United States and China is a question left open, probably deliberately, by Emmanuel Macron. Sometimes he seems to want equidistance, sometimes he denies that he wants it. In any case, this prospect is anathematized by German pro-Western militants, above all by the Greens who now control German foreign policy. Among them, suspicions run deep of Macron’s occasional protestations that ‘strategic autonomy’ is compatible with transatlantic loyalty, at a time of growing confrontation between ‘the West’ and the new East Asian Evil Empire. As a result, France is more isolated than ever in the EU.

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Ted Snider: Leaks Show Need to Re-Evaluate Russian Military Performance

the libertarian institute May 11, 2023

Recent leaks have confirmed what has long been suggested: there is a need to re-evaluate the performance of the Russian army and to recalibrate the optimistic expectations.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Russia is deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus. NATO shouldn’t take the bait

Nikolai N. SokovMay 10, 2023

The impact of Russia’s decision to institute nuclear sharing with Belarus will have wide-ranging consequences.

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VIDEO: Robert Wright & John Mearsheimer: Russia Hawks and China Hawks

nonzeroMay 10, 2023

On the Nonzero podcast, journalist Robert Wright talks with legendary IR theorist John J. Mearsheimer about his upcoming book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy, among other topics.

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Paul Robinson: Russia and the emergence of the post-Western world

canadian DimensionMay 9, 2023

Russian relations with the West are in tatters. In much of the rest of the world, however, the opposite seems to be true.

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Ronald Steel, Critic of American Cold War Policies, Dies at 92

NYTMay 8, 2023

Ronald Steel, a historian who derided America’s Cold War foreign policies as a succession of misguided adventures and wrote a definitive biography of Walter Lippmann, the dean of 20th-century foreign policy realism, died on Sunday in Washington. He was 92.

In his first book, “The End of the Alliance” (1964), Mr. Steel argued that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was already obsolete five years after its birth in 1949 and that it should be dissolved as a way of stepping back from what he regarded as the growing prospect of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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VIDEO: Understanding the War in Ukraine – With ACURA’s Katrina vanden Heuvel

ACTIVISM TVMay 8, 2023

In the first part of this interview series, Munich-based ACTIVISM TV talks with The Nation’s editorial director and publisher and ACURA president Katrina vanden Heuvel about the war in Ukraine.

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ACURA’s Anatol Lieven: Applebaum & Goldberg: Truth attended by a bodyguard of lies

Responsible StatecraftMay 8, 2023

In the Atlantic writers’ latest attempt to frame the war as a global struggle between good and evil, they cut too many corners to ignore.

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Robert Borosage: The Left Should Support Ending Violence in Ukraine

the nationMay 8, 2023

That means supporting a negotiated settlement in the name of limiting still more horrendous devastation.

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Film: The War Game (1966)

VIMEOMay 5, 2023

We link below to Peter Watkins’ award-winning 1966 film The War Game, a docudrama about the impact of a hypothetical nuclear war. The parallels with today are chilling. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Feature) and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.
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Ted Galen Carpenter: Samantha Power, High Priestess of Insidious Authoritarianism

libertarian instituteMay 4, 2023

Most people who remember Samantha Power know her either as a pro-war propagandist masquerading as a journalist in Bosnia or as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s loyal servant in helping to orchestrate the Obama administration’s disastrous military interventions in Libya and Syria. However, she now has an important policy perch in Joe Biden’s administration from which to promote and implement a new round of destructive policies. As the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, she has a multi-billion-dollar slush fund with which to bribe foreign governments and subsidize foreign political surrogates.

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Why Putin Went to War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Roberts

FrihedsbrevetMay 4, 2023

Flemming Rose, Editor-in-chief of Frihedsbrevet spoke with Dr. Geoffrey Roberts who has researched and written about the history of diplomacy for many decades. In particular, he has dealt with the processes leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War and to the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, which involved the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of interest between Germany and the Soviet Union.

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ACURA ViewPoint: James W. Carden: “The Counteroffensive” by Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum: I read it so you don’t have to.

acura viewPointMay 2, 2023

Two of America’s leading neocon apparatchiks, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg and Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum traveled to Ukraine with the widow of the American tech titan Steve Jobs (who now, as it happens, owns The Atlantic) for a round of war tourism and a sit-down with Ukrainian president Zelensky.

The results are about what you’d expect. [Read more…] about ACURA ViewPoint: James W. Carden: “The Counteroffensive” by Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum: I read it so you don’t have to.

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Daniel Larison: Lawmakers deploy ‘Munich’ trope to push dangerously hawkish Ukraine resolutions

responsible StatecraftMay 2, 2023

A bipartisan group of hawks in Congress announced a new resolution on Tuesday that calls for the U.S. to seek the restoration of Ukraine’s 1991 borders and to bring Ukraine into NATO after the war is over.

Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) are co-sponsoring what they call the Ukrainian Victory Resolution, and have been framing it, perhaps not surprisingly, with the lofty rhetoric of World War II. So far the bill has 18 bipartisan co-sponsors.

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MK Bhadrakumar: Who gains from a forever war in Ukraine?

indian punchlineMay 2, 2023

Europe may join hands with China to bring the war to an end. 

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