Here Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow lays out the underpinnings of today’s Ukraine/Russia standoff and looks at potential options. None includes U.S. military intervention as a sensible option. Ukrainians won an important political battle by ousting the corrupt Viktor Yanukovich as president. But replacing Yanukovich with another dubious politico, such as opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, just […]
Ukrainian’s Income One-Third of Polish Workers’ Income
The overriding problem for the Ukraine is that the country has been run like a money making machine for the oligarchs and political cronies. Here the Cato Institute’s Dalibor Rohac lays bare the real crisis in the Ukraine. It’s now a decade since Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” brought hope that the country could be liberated from […]
An Insider’s Ukraine Look
Here at Taki’s magazine, you get to look at the Ukrainian crisis from the inside. Just before the current troubles in Ukraine began, we called a plumber to our rented flat in Paris, which smelled of mold at the time. He was Ukrainian. He told us why he had left his native country a few […]
Turn a Regional Crisis Into a Major War
Daniel Larison at The American Conservative castigates Alex Berezow for his incendiary approach to confronting Russia over the troubles in the Ukraine. Mr. Berezow seems to be advocating the World War I approach to Russia’s invasion of Crimea, and we all know how well that turned out. Alex Berezow’s approach to foreign policy might be summed up […]
Putin Should Remember the 1998 Ruble Crisis and the End of Yeltsin
While troops on the ground may not be feasible to counter Vladimir Putin and Russia in Ukraine (nor should that be considered), if the powers that be are bent on retaliating against Russia for breaking international treaties by invading Ukraine, Robert Kimmit and Stephen Myrow (both former Treasury officials) point out that America’s best leverage […]
Dateline Russia: Stocks Down 11% Ruble Falls to All Time Low
Here The Wall Street Journal stipulates that Russia’s soft underbelly is its economic reliance on Europe. But this late in the winter its favored “natural gas diplomacy” won’t have much effect because Ukraine and the other European nations already have enough supplies to get to Spring. Russia’s Micex stock index fell 11% on Monday and […]
Merkel Has Opened a Dialouge with Putin
Al Jazeera America reports that neither side in the current Ukraine conflict has a clue about what comes next. Now that the U.S. and Russia are locking diplomatic horns, Germany’s Angela Merkel will play the good cop and attempt to sort all this out without bloodshed. Neither Moscow nor the NATO powers have reckoned with […]
War Hawks Breathing Fire
The war hawks are breathing fire. Pat Buchanan advises Obama to tune them out and offers cogent reasoning here as to why he should. With Vladimir Putin’s dispatch of Russian troops into Crimea, our war hawks are breathing fire. Russophobia is rampant and the op-ed pages are ablaze here. Barack Obama should tune them out, […]
Making Sense of the Ukraine/Russia Standoff
Here the Wall Street Journal details the back and forth between the U.S. and the EU on one side and the Yanukovych administration on the other in attempting to bring Ukraine closer to the EU and the West. Strategically, the Obama administration decided to take a back seat to Europe because of concerns that assuming […]
Thought You Might Want to Know About This
Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida has a different take on education. Here’s a bit of Full Sail’s story: More than 30 years ago, Full Sail began as a dream to create a place where people could learn how to take their passion for entertainment and turn it into a career they loved. It […]
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