The deployment is to have been long-planned, and the timing of the announcement appeared designed to send message to Ukraine and West that Russia is serious about defending what it regards as its own territory and waters... ..…
Whatever the full explanation, many of the consequences I have analyzed in War With Russia? ... Russia’s turn away from the West, its “pivot to China,” is now widely acknowledged and embraced by leading Moscow policy thinkers. ..…
Everything suggests that Russia slowly takes one step after the other to block the Azov Sea off from Ukraine & international shipping. The West & NATO should react sharply before it is too late. https://t.co/kZMn2XTEls . — Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) November 25, 2018 . . ..…
While July 1941 proceeded, German infantrymen were pouring forward onto the very borders of Russia, taking the town of Ostrov on 4 July, in north-west Russia – followed, on 8 July, by their capturing Pskov 30 miles further north. . ..…
And this is why it is a myth that the West has been too passive, too inactive, in its recent relationship with Russia. ... That is to say, the West has already been too active in the Ukraine conflict. ..…
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