Cold War

Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey (R), Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak (C) and Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas shake hands after signing an agreement on the creation of a joint military brigade on Sept. 19 in Warsaw.
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Amid conflict, Poland pushes Ukraine to align with West

September 23, 2014 STRATFOR 0

Throughout the conflict in Ukraine, Poland has tried to use competition between Russia and the West to advance its own interests, which include pulling Ukraine further into the Western camp and pushing for stronger NATO commitment to bolstering Poland against Russia. However, Poland will be limited in its ability to meet its objectives, especially because the next few months will likely see a de-escalation of the stand-off in Ukraine. For its part, Warsaw will continue to pursue regional cooperation initiatives to mitigate the threat from Moscow. […]

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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Opinion: NATO promises to Russia? Which promises?

September 16, 2014 Jeroen Bult 0

Alea iacta est. NATO has agreed on the formation of a special ‘spearhead force’ (officially: Very High Readiness Joint Task Force) that, if necessary, will offer the eastern member states (additional) protection against Russia’s imperialist whims. After twenty years of peace keeping operations and crisis management on the Balkans and in exotic places further away, the alliance will refocus on its original task, as anchored in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty: collective defence. […]

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Potential new dangers emerge in the US-Russian standoff

September 4, 2014 STRATFOR 0

The United States and Russia entered a new and more dangerous phase of their pseudo-Cold War this week. […]

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Opinion: Dread, confusion and loathing in Palestine

July 19, 2014 Lukas Mikelionis 0

For a past week, to talk about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian relations objectively became quite a self-indulging activity. The debate itself is toxic, since, according to the opposing camps, any affection to the Palestinian cause turns one into an anti-Semitic, terrorist-loving, revanchist bastard, whereas backing Israel means support to genocidal, child-killing, quasi-religious nationalist regime. […]

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Opinion: Ukraine’s success threatens Russian idea of exclusivity

July 14, 2014 DELFI EN 0

While Ukraine is spreading joyful news about liberating settlements during new anti-terrorist operations, the Russian plan to turn this country divided into mutually confronting parts into the territory of chaos is collapsing. […]

Eduard Shevardnadze
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Remembering Georgia’s Shevardnadze

July 8, 2014 STRATFOR 0

Eduard Shevardnadze, the last foreign minister of the Soviet Union and onetime president of Georgia, died Monday. Shevardnadze had not been active in politics since his ouster as president during the Rose Revolution in 2003. However, his time in politics marks two critical periods of transition in geopolitics and the world: the end of the Cold War and the restart of the U.S.-Russian struggle. […]