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Opinion: The long game in Eastern Europe

September 17, 2014 Robert D. Kaplan 0

Two weeks ago commentators were hyperventilating about a return to the 1930s in Europe, following a Russian invasion-of-sorts into eastern Ukraine. […]

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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. […]

Crises in Ukraine and Iraq hang over NATO summit

September 5, 2014 Reuters 0

NATO leaders have a lot to talk about at this year’s summit in Wales, expected to be the toughest since the Cold War ended. […]

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. […]

Opinion: Three reasons why Lithuania needs NATO bases on its soil

September 4, 2014 Dr. Laurynas Kasciunas 0

Paradoxically enough, it is during the term of the US president who thought Europe’s security system a done deal and insisted on a “reset” in relations with Russia that Lithuania and other Baltic states will finally become full-fledged members of NATO. […]

Opinion: Russia’s psychological warfare – battles without armed confrontation

August 27, 2014 Stan Backaitis 0

This year, during the month of July, the Central and Eastern European Coalition (CEEC), met with California U.S. congressman Adam Schiff and the U.S. Governor of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Matthew Armstrong, to exchange thoughts on Russian inspired and supported armed conflicts and threats in the CEE region. […]

Edward Lucas: Lithuania will suffer most from Moscow’s embargo

August 13, 2014 Baltic News Network 0

Moscow’s sanctions will cause greatest problems to Lithuania, not Poland or other countries. This is because Lithuania’s business engine is based on exports to Russia, said Edward Lucas, editor of The Economist International Office, in an interview to Info TV. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]