NATO member Turkey will preside over high-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia later this week, its foreign minister said, the first sit-down involving top diplomats from the warring nations since Moscow’s invasion began in late February.
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 8, 2022 | News Roundup
NATO member Turkey will preside over high-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia later this week, its foreign minister said, the first sit-down involving top diplomats from the warring nations since Moscow’s invasion began in late February.
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 8, 2022 | News Roundup
Australia has become one of the latest US allies to ship weapons into Ukraine, devoting $50 million in arms and other security assistance amid reports that Western powers have flooded the country with more than 17,000 missiles in the space of just a few days....
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 7, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Biden administration is pushing the Supreme Court to allow the Pentagon to enforce its vaccine mandate for Navy Seals. [Link] The Pentagon extends the deployment of National Guards soldiers in DC through Wednesday. [Link] The Idaho National Guard will...
by Connor Freeman | Mar 7, 2022 | News Roundup
After 11 months of talks, a U.S. return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iran nuclear deal, appears more likely each week. The Europeans’ respective chief negotiators have already begun posting photos of their teams, thanking them for their work,...
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 7, 2022 | News Roundup
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has agreed to extend a National Guard deployment on the streets of the nation's capital – set to face down the anti-Covid mandate “People’s Convoy” as the American public remains fixated on Russia’s war on Ukraine. Pentagon spokesman...
by Steven Woskow | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog
Importantly, we discuss some points I haven’t been able to shoehorn into recent blogs because they were already so massive. The first thing is the JCPOA negotiations in Vienna. They are pushing rapidly to conclusion now in order to stabilize oil markets by trying to...
by Bas Spliet | Mar 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Russian rationale behind invading Ukraine closely resembles the reasoning behind the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan in 1979. Both then and now, many in the West read an unprovoked expansionary move into the Kremlin’s actions. That view, in both instances, is...
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 7, 2022 | News Roundup
In an early sign of compromise following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine late last month, a senior member on Kiev’s negotiation team said his country is open to remaining outside of the NATO military bloc – a key security concern raised by Moscow time and again.
With the world’s eyes on Ukraine, Israel has carried out strikes on Syria for two consecutive nights. Thursday’s early morning attack is the third in the past week and, according to Syrian state media, the strikes killed three soldiers stationed somewhere near the...
After launching a military incursion into Ukraine early Thursday morning, Russian forces have reportedly bombed targets across the country and are even believed to have captured the infamous Chernobyl nuclear site. Though conflicting reports continue to abound amid a...
The US Treasury Department has announced new sanctions targeting a “key” financial network for Yemen’s Houthis, claiming it has supported the group in its years-long war against the US-backed Saudi coalition. The department said Sa’id al-Jamal, allegedly an...
Weldon Ralph Petty Jr. spent decades working in the Midland County District Attorney's Office in Texas as a prosecutor before returning in 2018. Just a year later, a scandal was unearthed, showing Petty had spent much of his career working as a clerk for judges on...
Vladimir Putin's invasion and bombing of Ukraine deserve the condemnation of all decent people. Regardless of what has been going on over there, Putin did not have to do it. He had a moral obligation to deal with the issues properly. His actions cannot be excused.
At this tense moment it is important to realize that the hardliners on both sides of any geopolitical rivalry are de facto allies. They need each other in their struggles against their domestic pro-diplomacy, antiwar opposition. So when the hardliners ascend on one...
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