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Keeping Russia the Enemy: Congressional Attitudes and Biased Expertise

... explaining the poor relationship at the moment with Russia. There seems to be an element of purposeful ... ... more than just gossip and hearsay. Worse, American media and political analysts adopted it almost wholly ... ... inevitably always be a threat to U.S. interests and global security. By all indicators, Russia is a threat not ... ... statements were uttered before the 2014 crisis in Ukraine even broke out. So before the U.S. Congress ... ... squarely pessimistic and adversarial in its attitude toward Russia as the Republicans. Indeed, in today’s ...

07.02.2015

Saving Lives or Saving Face? Sanctions, Russia, and the West

New sanctions were levied against Russia on July 16th by both the United States and the European ... ... explaining the sanctions, claiming continued unrest in Eastern Ukraine is primarily because of tacit Russian support behind-the-scenes.... ... this conflict for the past half year, we have had heard this accusation at least half a dozen times. Sometimes there has been evidence ... ... is that they will try to hunker down for ‘extended urban warfare.’ The irony of course is that the force in Eastern ...

17.07.2014

The Unintended Consequence of Maidan

... easier than actually solving them. In that I suspect Ukraine will be no different, no matter how many elections,... .... In the Maidan revolution this was not the case: Russia was very much interested in the long-term geostrategic ... ... day you will be hard-pressed to find much Western media/academic coverage analyzing or considering legitimate ... ... back two months that they were completely caught unaware and off-guard that anyone on the outside would ... ... Ukraine remains unsettled. More casualties mount. Accusations fly about Russian subterfuge as authorities ...

10.05.2014

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