Vital interests affect the safety, sovereignty, integrity, and power position of United States, as MIT's Barry Posen argued at The National Interest before Ukraine and Trump questions became so entwined.. ..…
Hungarian officials have vetoed NATO statement about Ukraine because it did not contain language criticizing Kyiv for its education and language laws that Budapest says deprive the rights of Hungarian in the neighboring country.. ..…
The NATO-Russia Council, for example—a forum set up in 2002 to ensure regular mutual consultation—has become dysfunctional; rather than turning to it in moments of crisis, such as during the Russian attack on Ukraine, NATO suspended all practical cooperation within the council for two..…
Given Russia's Georgia and Ukraine, NATO must continue to forward-deploy troops and military capabilities to Europe to deter and, if necessary, defeat Russian attack against one of the member states. ..…
Ever Democrats, the establishment, and the liberal elements of the mainstream press did everything they could to ensure that his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, was elected president.. ..…
But Trump, played down Russian threat, while recalling Germany's Second World War assault on Poland... ..…
The United States announced February 2019 the suspension of INF Treaty with Russia and the intention to leave it definitively within six months. ..…
But after Russia illegally annexed Crimea, the waters have become a flashpoint for Ukraine, nato and Russia. ..…
In the eyes of the mainstream press and Washington, D.C., establishment, the fact that Russia preferred the candidate. ..…
Since Russia’s armed invasion of Ukraine, NATO countries have, in fact, increased their combined defense budgets by some $100 billion per year, which is much more than Moscow could possibly muster. ..…
After Orange Revolution, President Vladimir Putin and Russian elite changed Moscow's strategic direction from cooperation and partnership with West to rivalry and confrontation, combined with massive military nuclear buildup. ..…
During Thursday's sessions, the foreign ministers agreed on a series of measures to counter Russia in the Black Sea region, including more support for Georgia and Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters at a press conference. . ..…
This will make it hard for West to reassure Russia and easy to escalate tensions with it, even inadvertently. All of these observations support Stephen Kotkin's conclusion that for Russia will remain problem to be managed for West.. ..…
they are likely to marvel at the clumsy and provocative policies that United States and its NATO allies pursued toward Russia. ..…
Ann Garrison George, the hostilities between Ukraine, NATO, and Russia continue to escalate in Sea of Azov, Kerch Strait, and Black Sea. ..…
Ann Garrison George, the hostilities between Ukraine, NATO, and Russia continue to escalate in Sea of Azov, Kerch Strait, and Black Sea. ..…
One of the most undesirable geopolitical scenarios for Russia would be the establishment of alliance between the two other Black Sea regional powers — Turkey and Ukraine. ..…
It appears that Western experts and Ukrainian diplomats successfully forecasted November 25 in Black Sea November.. ..…
Having sent troops into Donbass region and annexed Crimea in 2014, Russia is taking control of Sea of Azov. ..…
L'Antidiplomatico Interview with Andre Vltchek.. ..…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of planning to rebuild Russian Empire in the midst of tensions between Kiev and Moscow over the seizure of three Ukrainian vessels Russia's territorial waters in Sea of Azov.. ..…
NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu quickly aligned NATO with Ukraine: “NATO fully supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and its territorial integrity, including its navigation rights in its territorial waters.” . ..…
NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu quickly aligned NATO with Ukraine: “NATO fully supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and its territorial integrity, including its navigation rights in its territorial waters.” . ..…
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that President Poroshenko told him over the phone that “the introduction of martial law will not hinder the working of the democratic institutions” in Ukraine. . NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during the NATO-led..…
Ukraine shares mile land and border with Russian Federation, Western with the country.. ..…
Statement by the NATO Spokesperson on the reported elections in eastern Ukraine . NATO does not recognise the reported elections held on 11 November in the self-proclaimed and unrecognised “Luhansk People’s Republic” and “Donetsk People’s Republic.” ..…
Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted immediately with vetoing Ukraine NATO integration process, as the law puts Hungarians Transcarpathia at huge disadvantage.. ..…
This is time to rebuild Russia and China, and continuing military and in Middle East and Latin America and increased military Africa and Asia. ..…
Then-French President Francois Hollande candidly told a press conference in Paris on February 5, 2015, that Ukraine’s NATO membership would be “undesirable” for France. ..…
The United States Government is now treating Ukraine and on September 27th donated to Ukraine two warships for use against Russia. ..…
This is the indication that the US is switching to Ukraine and from. ..…
Instead of supporting Ukraine, NATO would have to defend itself on its own soil. ..…
where Russian-backed rebels attempting to carve out autonomous section of the country, Ukrainian troops in the region are serving as. ..…
With Democrats howling that Vladimir Putin hacked into and leaked those 19,000 Democratic National Convention emails to help Trump, The Donald had Maybe Russians can retrieve Hillary Clinton's lost emails. ..…
By more before the beginning of the crisis, And Russians favorable views of U.S and European Union have plummeted. ..…
. • Frontline Ukraine NATO pushes East • The return of the neocons • Divide and conquer. ..…
day the unthinkable happened A Malaysian Airlines jet carrying 300 passengers was shot out of the sky near the border of Russia and Ukraine. . ..…
Already on February 25, three days after the coup in Ukraine and a month before Crimea joined with Russia, he reported under the headline “Turmoil in Ukraine: NATO Fears New Flashpoint in Europe” that military officials had “in the meantime even developed plans to defend alliance..…
The French of Strasbourg and German of Kehl, will be in lock-down this weekend as the grandees of NATO gather to celebrate the alliance's 60th anniversary and protesters in on the site from all over Europe. ..…
Yet NATO survived the collapse of Soviet Union and expanded, of Eastern Europe and even Baltic republics that had been part of Russian empire for more than 200 years. ..…