Ukraine News Links 26-27 December 2021

27 December 2021 — The New Dark Age

Will 2022 be Better Than the Outgoing Year?
https://journal-neo.org/2021/12/27/will-2022-be-better-than-the-outgoing-year/

Big, Big Difference.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/12/big-big-difference.html

2022 — Year Of Major Power Conflict Over Ukraine
https://popularresistance.org/2022-year-of-major-power-conflict-over-ukraine/

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War in Ukraine? NATO expansion drives conflict with Russia

6 December 2021 — The Grayzone

Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next? Richard Sakwa joins Pushback.

Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next? Scholar and author Richard Sakwa analyzes the growing Russia-Ukraine conflict and how Russiagate fueled it.

Guest: Richard Sakwa. Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. His books include “Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands” and his latest, “Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War.”

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Putin hints at military options in Ukraine

26 December 2021 — Indian Punchline

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via video conference outside Moscow, December 24, 2021

The Rossiya 1 state television in Moscow broadcast today President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. It conveys a much fuller picture of the grave crisis brewing in the Russian-American relations than what the excerpts in the Russian media sought to convey over the weekend.

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