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The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

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[PDF file]: […] geopolitical configuration of Europe. Russian leaders from Gorbachev onwards envisaged a new international order characterised by ongoing disarmament supervised by multilateral organisations such as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Strategic See Scott Newton, ‘An “Unhelpful” Contribution?’: Richard Sakwa, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands in Lobster 77, 2019. or […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] 4. Indo-Pacific Realignment 5. Sino-US Tech Competition 6. Russia 7. Continuity of Government and the Economy 8. Disruption of the Global Financial System 9. Disinformation 10. Energy Security and Sustainability 11. Post Pandemic Health The official list is at . 29 12 12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies 13. Trade and Deglobalisation 14. Ukraine Which […]

[PDF file]: […] 4. Indo-Pacific Realignment 5. Sino-US Tech Competition 6. Russia 7. Continuity of Government and the Economy 8. Disruption of the Global Financial System 9. Disinformation 10. Energy Security and Sustainability 11. Post Pandemic Health 12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies 13. Trade and Deglobalisation 14. Ukraine Which might keep them busy for a long weekend! […]

View from the bridge

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[…] resignation of the then pro-Russian president Yanukovych, which kicked the present crisis into gear. (Conventional accounts in the West generally attribute the Maidan deaths to Ukrainian ‘ security forces’.) Russia’s talk of ‘denazifying’ 36 ‘Where does the West go now?’ . or 37 11 Ukraine is not merely rhetoric. At time of writing, there […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

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[PDF file]: […] decision, because moving the Embassy had been a campaign promise. He took this decision in the face of the united opposition of the US foreign policy and security establishments. Both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defence Secretary James Mattis warned that ‘all hell’s going to break loose’.1 According to Richard Mansbach, Trump made […]

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[…] resignation of the then pro-Russian president Yanukovych, which kick the present crisis into gear. (Conventional accounts in the West generally attribute the Maidan deaths to Ukrainian ‘ security forces’.) Russia’s talk of ‘denazifying’ Ukraine is not merely rhetoric. At time of writing, there is not yet a Ukraine-Russia peace deal but 19 ‘Where does […]

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Some thoughts on The Russia Report

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[PDF file]: Some thoughts on The Russia Report Nick Must Ahhh yes . . . the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament’s Russia Report, the cushion on which the well-upholstered posterior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat for more than a year. I can only assume that year was required to deliberately introduce some comedic errors, […]

Running Rings

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[PDF file]: […] MI5 and MI6 to conduct faster searches on each other’s databases.2 In the same report: Ciaran Martin, who stepped down as head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre told the FT the cloud deal would allow the security services “to get information from huge amounts of data in minutes, rather than in weeks […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] same experiences as happened to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, both investigative journalists from Northern Ireland. They produced the No Stone Unturned documentary highlighting collusion between the security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist terrorists. The reasoning for this harsh treatment meted out to a growing number of journalists across the UK, is firstly […]

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[…] same experiences as happened to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, both investigative journalists from Northern Ireland. They produced the No Stone Unturned documentary highlighting collusion between the security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist terrorists. The reasoning for this harsh treatment meted out to a growing number of journalists across the UK, is firstly […]