Ukraine
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What Ukraine and Russia should do to avoid Libya’s fate By Alexander Savchenko
I feel sorry for Libyans. But similar fate also expects other nations, which have rich natural resources – oil, gas, ores, arable lands and fresh water. Though these resources were given to them by God ‘the new Crusaders’ think that they don’t deserve these gifts. We should be ready that the Libyan scenario may repeat… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 16-22 May, 2010
2010-05-18 Alexander VORONTSOV Oleg REVENKO Kim Jong-il In China (I) “Kim Jong-il’s “unofficial” tour across China’s northern provinces early this May was loaded with symbolism. It was his fifth visit to the country which in fact acts as the DPRK’s only remaining partner in international politics… Western watchers are convinced that Kim Jong-il’s younger son Continue reading
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Russia-America: Rediscovering realpolitik By Eric Walberg
The irony in current relations between Russia and America is that the US has been far more ideological, perversely so, in the past two decades than Soviet foreign policy ever was. Russia is now expanding its economic and political relations with its former comrades both in the “near abroad” and in the Middle East without… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 4 – 10 April, 2010
2010-04-06 Dmitriy BAKLIN Katyn Between the Past and the Future “Katyn, a village 18 km west of Smolensk, Russia became known across the world as the site of mass execution of Polish officers by Stalin’s secret police in April-May, 1940… Oddly enough, Stalin was the first to publicly and officially apologize to Poland for the Continue reading
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Ukraine Geopolitics and the US-NATO Military Agenda: Tectonic Shift in Heartland Power Part I By F. William Engdahl
The relevant question at this juncture is what the defeat of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution signifies for the future of the Eurasian Heartland, as British geopolitician Halford Mackinder termed the region? Even more significantly, what does it imply for a two-decade long Pentagon attempt to weaken and ultimately cripple Russia as a military power in Washington’s… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 21-26 February, 2010
The Iskander Missiles as the Guarantee of Normal Coexistence of Russia and Europe – India-Pakistan Talks after 26/11 – Ukraine: Post-orange challenges Continue reading
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Ukraine: Post-orange challenges By Hannes HOFBAUER
After ten months of tricky tactical games playing on electoral procedures and acknowledgements, the orange period of the post-communist Ukraine finally came to an end. As if the elections of 2004 were repeated, the electorate again voted for Viktor Yanukovych. This time the attempts to complain about falsifications were not successful; no tents were seen… Continue reading
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Russia, Turkey and the Great Game: Changing teams By Eric Walberg
For all intents and purposes, Turkey has given up on the European Union, recognising it as a bastion of Islamophobia and captive to US diktat. As Switzerland bans minarets and France moves to outlaw the niqab, the popular Islamist government in Istanbul moves in the opposite direction — supporting the freedom to wear headscarfs, boldly… Continue reading
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Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III Part 2 By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Part 2 of this essay on “The Origins of World War III” analyzes the colour revolutions as being a key stratagem in imposing the US-led New World Order. The “colour revolution” or “soft” revolution strategy is a covert political tactic of expanding NATO and US influence to the borders of Russia and even China; following… Continue reading
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The End of Chimerica? By M K Bhadrakumar
It all began with United States Vice President Joseph Biden choosing a tour of Ukraine and Georgia on July 20-23 to rebuke the Kremlin publicly for its “19th-century notions of spheres of influence”. Clearly, Biden’s jaunt was choreographed as a forceful demonstration of the Barack Obama administration’s resolve to keep up the US’s strategic engagement… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Biden pushes Bush NATO policy
Video: Biden pushes Bush NATO policy. VP Joe Biden told Georgia and the Ukraine the US still supports their membership in NATO Continue reading
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The Prospects of a New Cold War? Towards the Consolidation of the Russian-led CSTO Military Alliance By José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
In the post Soviet space the late 2000s’ geopolitical reality is different from that of the 90s because Russia is vigorously attempting to reassert its power and to reinforce its own national security. Moscow is strongly defending its interests in the so called Near Abroad, (i. e. the former Soviet Union, which is the core… Continue reading
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War, Oil and Gas Pipelines: Turkey is Washington's Geopolitical Pivot By F. William Engdahl
For Washington Turkey today has become a geopolitical “pivot state” which is in the position to tilt the Eurasian power equation towards Washington or significantly away from it depending on how Turkey develops its ties with Moscow and its role regarding key energy pipelines. Continue reading
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Black Sea: Pentagon's Gateway to Three Continents and the Middle East By Rick Rozoff
Prior to the breakup of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 and the Soviet Union two years later the Black Sea was mainly off limits to the West in general and to the Pentagon and NATO in particular. Continue reading
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The Eastern Partnership: The West's Final Assault On the Former Soviet Union By Rick Rozoff
The ultimate intent of the Eastern Partnership is to wean away all the other ex-Soviet states from economic, trade, political, security and military ties with Russia Continue reading
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