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Ukraine Revolution Erupts in Fresh Violence
Despite Russian reassurances that Moscow’s troop buildup along Ukraine’s eastern frontier is for a military exercise, its growing scale is making U.S. officials nervous about its ultimate aim. President Barack Obama on Friday urged ...
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The Ukrainian Revolution's Neo-Fascist Problem
Pentagon officials say they believe there could be close to 50,000 Russian troops bordering the former Soviet republic and inside Crimea, recently seized and annexed by Moscow. That estimate is double earlier assessments, and ...
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Ukraine 2014 Parliamentary Election Results
Washington got those assurances that the Russian troop buildup was only an exercise from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu a week ago. But no one in the U.S. government knows if Putin agrees — ...
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Ukraine Revolution Places Elites Back In Power
There is no plan to involve the U.S. military in what is happening in Ukraine, even if Russia takes more territory. Ukraine borders Russia, and Ukraine does not belong to NATO, where an attack ...
(This post was originally published by Young Diplomats Partner Geopolitics Made Super and is written by Ryan Bohl). And “to” seems the right word, because this was done to Turkey by Recip Tayyip ...
French Presidential Election Reveals a Divided Nation : The same urban-rural and educational splits we saw with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump appear in France. This Article was ...
Social democrats lose when they try to be all things to all people. Better to side with the progressive middle class. This Article was written by Nick Ottens for the ...
Kurdistan, ‘The Land of the Kurds,’ internationally recognized as an area with territory in four different countries – Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq. Even though its territory technically lies within ...
(This post was originally published by Young Diplomats Partner Geopolitics Made Super and is written by Ryan Bohl). From Reuter’s data deep dive: Marine Le Pen’s 2nd place win was not unexpected; analysts ...
Representatives of 29 French media organisations, including FRANCE 24, signed a petition Thursday denouncing Marine Le Pen’s National Front party for obstructing their access to events and ability to inform ...
Cross-posted article by Ailana Navarez; Pulsamérica. The Darien Gap is more than a pause in the Inter-American Highway. It divides North and South America’s problems. Panama’s military-styled border patrol SENAFRONT ...
Saudi Arabia declared in December 2015 that it would form a NATO-style military alliance to combat terrorism. Initially the Muslim NATO consisted of 34 Sunni Muslim states; later the Muslim ...