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American Hawks Should Stop Flattering Themselves: They’re Not Playing A Great Game With Putin

Tim Reuter(Forbes)June 18, 2015

Days before his death on February 8, 1725, Tsar Peter the Great gave his last will and testament. He exhorted his successors to fulfill Russia’s destiny and conquer the world. The keys to this great endeavor were Constantinople and India, the former for its symbolism and the latter for its wealth.

Neither the actual records nor documentation of Peter’s instructions have ever been found. It is likely that he never issued those deathbed commands. Yet, the legend has endured.

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Conspiracy Theorists Welcome in Corporate Media–if They Have the Right Targets (Adam Johnson)

FAIRMarch 31, 2017

With her rise to prominence as a commentator on the Trump/Russia story, and seemingly dozens of editors and producers giving her their tacit approval, one is compelled to ask: What exactly would Louise Mensch have to say to be discredited?

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Russia warns of ‘new military confrontation’ in Europe

Holly Ellyatt(cnbc)June 17, 2015

Russia-West relations took a downturn this week when Moscow warned that any stationing of military equipment along its border with Europe could have “dangerous consequences” and President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would add more than 40 ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year….
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In Europe’s Other ‘Divorce,’ Ukraine Loses To Russia … Again (Forbes)

Kenneth RapozaMarch 30, 2017

As the world focuses on the “divorce” between the U.K. and E.U., another divorce court hearing for two other former partners was handed down today in London. In Ukraine vs. Russia on Wednesday, a U.K. court said Kiev still owes the Russians a cool $3 billion.

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Nato to ‘name and shame’ member countries over defence spending

Christopher Hope(The Telegraph)June 17, 2015

Nato’s league table – likely to be published on the eve of the defence ministers’ meeting in Brussels on 24 and 25 June – will ensure that countries are being compared on a like for like basis when it comes to defence spending, according to British Government sources.

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The UN’s Nuclear Weapon Talks May Be The Most Important Thing Nobody’s Paying Attention To (Huffington Post)

Alexander ZaitchikMarch 30, 2017

Over protests from the U.S. and other nuclear powers, more than 120 countries began work on a treaty at the United Nations this week with the aim of banishing nuclear weapons from the face and the oceans of the earth.

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The blockade of separatist-held Donbas

Brian Milakovsky(LiveJournal)June 17, 2015

The desire of many Ukrainian politicians to “seal off” rebel-held territories in the Donbas may be coming to pass. The head of Poroshenko’s bloc in parliament, Yury Lutsenko, has declared that the president desires to extend the present automotive blockade of the so-called Luhansk Peoples Republic to all separatist held territories. Passage into them will be possible only by foot or compact car.

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PODCAST: The Sovietization of the American Political-Media Establishment? (Stephen F. Cohen)

The NationMarch 29, 2017

Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments, now in their fourth year, are at TheNation.com.) Batchelor begins by recalling the early 1950s, when President Eisenhower finally ended Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hunt for Communists in the US government.

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Push to arm Ukraine roars back in Senate

Jordain Carney(The Hill)June 16, 2015

Senators are adopting a new tactic in their push for President Obama to arm Ukraine against Russian-backed separatists.

Lawmakers in both parties are supporting a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would give the Obama administration $300 million for Ukrainian security assistance. The provision specifies that half of the funding would be withheld until at least 20 percent of the money is spent on lethal aid.

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The Surveillance State Behind Russia-gate (William Binney, Ray McGovern)

consortium newsMarch 29, 2017

Amid the frenzy over the Trump team’s talks with Russians, are we missing a darker story, how the Deep State’s surveillance powers control the nation’s leaders, ask U.S. intelligence veterans Ray McGovern and Bill Binney.

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Russia says will retaliate if U.S. weapons stationed on its borders

GABRIELA BACZYNSKA AND WIKTOR SZARY(Reuters)June 16, 2015

A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia’s border would be the most aggressive U.S. act since the Cold War, and Moscow would retaliate by beefing up its own forces, a Russian defense official said on Monday.

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VIDEO: Sen. Rand Paul’s Speech Against NATO Expansion

Sen. Rand PaulMarch 29, 2017

Sen. Rand Paul took to the floor of the Senate on Monday to voice his opposition to expanding NATO to include the Balkan nation of Montenegro.

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Why Arming Ukraine Is a Really Bad Idea

Paul Saunders(The National Interest)June 16, 2015

Renewed fighting in Ukraine has in turn renewed calls to arm Ukraine, including in the United States Congress. Yet there is an enormous and largely unacknowledged flaw in the argument to provide the Kiev government with lethal weapons

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We Can’t Afford to Lose U.S.-Russian Nuclear Cooperation (Nicolai Petro, Josh Cohen)

TNIMarch 29, 2017

In the rancorous aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Russia is often depicted as the greatest national-security threat facing the United States. The intense heat generated by the current scandals, however, is blinding us to the fact that cooperation with Russia on nuclear issues is still very much in America’s interests.

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Confronting Russia Holds Peril for U.S.

Albert R. Hunt(New York Times)June 15, 2015

It could have been President Obama issuing a firm warning — measured, devoid of bellicose threats — to President Vladimir V. Putin that the West would keep the pressure on as long as Russia interfered with Ukraine’s sovereignty. Instead, it was Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and a leading 2016 Republican presidential aspirant, speaking at a news conference in Berlin on Wednesday.

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Ukrainian war hero and lawmaker slurs Jews (JTA)

JTAMarch 29, 2017

A Ukrainian lawmaker and war hero used a word usually translated as “kikes” in complaining that Jews wield excessive power in her country.

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Sanctions new normal proves workable for business in Russia

Kathrin Hille, Jack Farchy and Courtney Weaver(Financial Times)June 15, 2015

When executives from hundreds of Russian and foreign companies came together in St Petersburg a year ago for the International Economic Forum, most participants were in a state of shock. The US and Europe had just slapped visa bans and asset freezes on a number of Russian officials and companies over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, and threatened much broader sanctions. One question dominated every conversation: How bad were things going to get?

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Ukraine amends disclosure law to include NGOs (FT)

Roman OlearchykMarch 28, 2017

Ukraine will require anti-corruption groups to make the same asset disclosures as politicians and public servants, a step that NGOs say attacks their work and distracts from their attempts to bring more transparency.

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IMF Managing Director Issues Statement on Ukraine

Christine Lagarde(IMF)June 15, 2015

In the statement below, released June 12, Ms. Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announces IMF policy on Ukraine: “Ukraine’s debt repayment capacity is limited by its fiscal capacity. Since Ukraine lacks the resources under the program to fully service its debts…in the event that a negotiated settlement with private creditors is not reached and the country determines that it cannot service its debt, the Fund can lend to Ukraine.”

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Dick Cheney: Russian Election Interference Possibly ‘Act of War’ (NBC)

NBCMarch 28, 2017

Cheney channels MSNBC and scores of liberal politicians and op-ed writers in calling Russia’s alleged interference an “act of war.”

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