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MAR
18
Trump, Putin, Ukraine, and the future of the GOP
By:
Michael E. Ross
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MAR
18
THAT RELATIVE radio silence we’ve observed from Team Trump recently is not an accident. Well, it’s partly unintended consequences; the instant faceplant of Trump’s Truth Social website did keep the former president from elevating his profile in his usual bellicose fashion. Still, despite being just seven months from the midterm elections, there’s a sense that the Trump 2024 campaign is in hunkerdown mode, planning, negotiating, gathering nuts and dry powder for the fall. And there’s likely another explanation for the comparative quiet of Donald Trump, his enablers and minions. It’s an explanation evolving – exploding – half a world away. Thanks to the expansionist antics of Russian president Vladimir Putin, war is on the march in Europe, for the first time since World War II. Putin’s scorched-earth war against neighbor Ukraine has led to the deaths of thousands since the war started on Feb. 24, and the displacement of more
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MAR
23
Crimea and punishment: Putin’s error and its consequences
By:
Michael E. Ross
on
MAR
23
NEVER MIND the to & fro going on in councils of state of Brussels, Moscow and Washington, the objections of the United Nations Secretary-General (and what’s happening on the bleeding streets of what had been southernmost Ukraine). What may be the most important development in the theft of Crimea by the Russian Federation has taken place in the offices of National Geographic Magazine. U.S. News & World Report, on Tuesday, reported that “National Geographic will show the peninsula as part of Russia after the Duma officially votes for annexation.” On Friday, engaging in his own March Madness, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed the order of annexation of Crimea, the first territorial expansion of Russia since World War II. What Juan José Valdés, NatGeo’s geographer, told U.S. News was chilling in its embrace of what, world objections aside, has become something of a fait accompli. “We map de facto,” Valdés said
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MAR
10
The rolling blunder of Vladimir Putin
By:
Michael E. Ross
on
MAR
10
MAYBE THE Sochi medal count went to Vladimir Putin’s head. It’s been a busybusy week for the Russian president and his army. Since seizing control of the Crimean Peninsula on March 1, Russian armed forces have steamrolled (without insignia) through the region, securing the airport and major buildings, attempting to reinforce Putin’s claim to part of a sovereign nation. On Sunday, acting Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he would fly to the White House this week for talks on “resolution of the situation in Ukraine,” Interfax reported. Last week, European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton condemned Russia's “unwarranted escalation of tensions.” On March 1, Secretary of State John Kerry condemned "the Russian Federation's invasion and occupation of Ukrainian territory.” The regional parliament in Crimea set a March 16 referendum on leaving Ukraine to join Russia. And the Kiev Post reported on Saturday
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