Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2014
9th December, 2014
A number of German politicians and opinion-makers have lately expressed concerns over the West’s reactions to President Putin’s policies. Although critical of Russia, more German officials doubt if further sanctions are the right course of action.
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Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2014
Delivers Russian Gas to Kiev for Winter
8th December, 2014
As we reported back in October, despite an elaborate year-long US and EU-backed regime change plan in the Ukraine and crippling US-led sanctions, the Ukraine went down on one knee to buy its winter gas from Russia (paid up front)…
What should be puzzling to anyone with half a brain and a cursory grip on common sense – is how technocrats in Brussels, London and Washington can say they are ‘committed to harsh economic sanctions against Russia over its interference in Ukrainian affairs’ – when the Ukraine itself, is has already resumed trade relations with Moscow?
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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2014
Within the context of a “new cold war” counter-propaganda of this nature in the very atlanticist “Spiegel” is very significant
‘Don’t get Russia wrong’: NATO intel warns against misjudging Moscow on Ukraine
2nd December, 2014
Russia doesn’t want Ukraine to be split up, NATO intelligence officials say, warning their colleagues against wrongly assessing Moscow’s policy on the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on December 6, 2014
THE RUSSIA WAR PARTY CAN’T SPEAK GERMAN, TRAMPLES CHANCELLOR MERKEL’S MEANING
John Helmer
26th November, 2014
When an elephant means to put his foot down on something with the objective of crushing it, a German speaker uses the same word as in English – trample (trampeln). When the intention and the outcome are emphatic, an English-speaker can say trample underfoot.
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Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2014
Europe May Face ‘Disaster’ Due to South Stream Cancellation: Czech Company
2nd December, 2014
MOSCOW, December 2 (Sputnik) – The consequences of scrapping the South Stream gas project could be disastrous for some European states, the marketing director of Czech gas company Vemex told Sputnik Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on December 3, 2014
Since the neo-cons are being marginalised in Washington and London, it is logical that they should seek a new centre of operations, a base for the neocon international from which they can spread their mischief.
Saakashvili, US Citizen Reportedly to Take Positions in Ukraine Government
1st December, 2014
MOSCOW, December 1 (Sputnik) — The Ukrainian authorities will hire foreign qualified civil service professionals; US citizen Natalie Jaresko and Mikhail Saakashvili, the notorious former president of Georgia, are reportedly among potential candidates.
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Posted by seumasach on November 30, 2014
27th November, 2014
The cold war took another twist last week when a senior german politician endorsed Russian takeover of Crimea:
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Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2014
21st November, 2014
It’s been a year since thousands of peaceful protesters took part in the initial Euromaidan rallies in Kiev, hoping for a brighter future. Since that optimistic start, the state has been torn to shreds and now its very future is in doubt.
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Posted by seumasach on November 15, 2014
Throw More Weapons at the Problem
10th November, 2014
The Republican foreign policy agenda in the new year promises to be lousy:
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Posted by seumasach on November 11, 2014
10th November, 2014
As Germany and many other nations celebrate the 25th anniversary of the demolition of Berlin Wall, the event which symbolized the end of the Cold War, it is important to analyze why U.S. – Russia relations are presently at an even more confrontational state, and why Francis Fukuyama’s famously-proclaimed the “end of history” due to West’s triumphal victory over USSR was just wishful thinking by a great philosopher.
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Posted by seumasach on November 8, 2014
To complete the fiasco that is Europe’s Ukraine policy we now have a rebellion against the EU’s self-defeating anti-Russia policy
4th November, 2014
(BUDAPEST) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reaffirmed Tuesday support for Russia’s controversial South Stream gas pipeline, shortly after Budapest approved a law seen as a green light for its construction in defiance of EU policy.
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