The more casualties both sides suffer, the greater the intensity of hostilities and the closer approach to the threshold of nuclear use. In this scenario, there will be no victors.
Is it possible for NATO armed forces to be involved in a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine? Such a formulation of the issue until recently seemed marginal, given the high risks of escalation of the military confrontation between the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia into a large-scale armed conflict. However, this scenario should be ...
Historians will most likely conclude the ambitious U.S.-led attempt to expand a militarized NATO on the border with Russia was an ill-conceived strategic failure resulting in lives lost and misplaced, and the catapult vital to compel a significant ... ... alliance to the doorstep of Moscow. The alliance placed all their chips on a bet that an endless supply of weaponry flooded into Ukraine would result in a relatively quick victory over what they naively believed to be a largely ineffective and technologically ...
... press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group hosted a roundtable discussion “NATO: 75 Years at the Forefront of Escalation,” marking the 75th anniversary of the... ... RIAC Academic Director; Maj. Gen. Vladimir Romanenko, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Union of Veterans; Dmitry Danilov, Head of the Department of European Security... ... meeting in Brussels, held from April 3-4, effectively shifted the burden of funding Ukraine from the U.S. to European countries. The ministerial also discussed the issues...
The U.S. felt that it needed to reshape European perceptions to revive the “Russian threat”, galvanizing the West under its hegemonic influence
Experts are ... ... at the end of last month wherein Russia commenced its special military operation in Ukraine.
Andrey Kortunov:
The end of diplomacy? Seven Glimpses of the New Normal
Russian... ... civil war hostilities with Washington’s backing. The Russian leader also claimed that NATO clandestinely established military infrastructure in the former Soviet Republic...
To Moscow, Russian security will never be American security reimagined. Simply ... ... into conflict with one another.
Dayan Jayatilleka:
Putin’s Ukraine Pushback: Existential War & The Moment of Rupture
Importantly,... ... precisely such an existential threat emanating from the U.S. and NATO, which has to do with their deployment of major weapons as ... ... diplomatic and military “double standard” causes great harm to international security, as it pushes Russia into a situation where ...
Review of: Stephen F. Cohen. “War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate.”
Review of: Stephen F. Cohen. “War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate.... ... of the progress of the two decades of détente. Such a posture led to an expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to “Russia’s borders,” building more nuclear bombs, and in 2002 even withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile ...
... of old problems while also facing new dangerous challenges
Confrontation between Russia and the USA/NATO
There is no reason to believe that the worsening relations between Russia and the... ... centres, such as the RAND Corporation, publish reports on the possibility of providing international security guarantees to Belarus, which, following a hypothetical regime... ... the presence of a small Russian peacekeeping force on its soil and its relations with Ukraine have worsened owing to the latter’s contradictions with Russia.
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Nearly five years have passed since the start of the dramatic events of the Maidan in Kiev that engendered a profound crisis in Russia’s relations with both Ukraine and the West. This is not a short period of time: World War I lasted a little over four years, about five years passed ... ... authorities afloat, providing the necessary minimum of economic and technical cooperation. The questions of Ukraine joining the EU and NATO will, however, be regularly delayed to some ever more distant future, and major western investment will not come into Ukraine....
No short cut to a more constructive relationship exists
U.S.-Russian relations are not only in bad shape—very bad shape—but destructively and ... ... into an inclusive Euro-Atlantic security community, has, because of Russian actions in Ukraine, sailed off the cliff and into a new military confrontation. Rather than capitalize... ... on the historic opportunity created when at the end of the Cold War the decades-long NATO-Warsaw Pact military standoff was dismantled, the two sides are now rapidly re-militarizing...