Put the Swiss bank, visa and IPO screws to Russia’s 140 oligarchs. Former Russian world chess champ Kasparov knows of what he speaks. Use the pressure of banks not tanks to stop Putin’s Ukraine charge. As I have said for years, it is a waste of time to attempt to discern deep strategy in Mr. […]
The Charge of the Light Brigade
With Crimea now front and center in the news, read here how the Crimean War was the incubator for many ideas that resonate today. The telegraph was in its infancy and allowed “live” reporting from the Crimea battlefield to London. Along with the telegraph, the use of railroads for transporting troops and equipment and the […]
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 […]