The NATO Nuisance

Large and firmly implanted bureaucratic organizations are almost impossible to kill, even when they have no reason to continue to exist, as NATO has not since the Soviet Union, communism, and the Warsaw Pact all collapsed. There is no equivalent to driving a stake...

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Russia’s Metro Bombings

Those behind the bombing in Moscow's Metro system, which took 39 lives – and shook the building that houses Russia's Federal Security Bureau (FSB) – must be "scraped from the bottom of the sewers" and exposed, said Vladimir Putin. But what if that particular...

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Georgia: Nothing Is Coming Up Roses

The Russo-Georgian war of 2008 provides the clearest current example of how war propaganda works – and how counter-propaganda can negate it and turn the tables on the War Party. You'll recall that as news of the conflict broke in the West, the war was reported as...

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Russia, China Sustain Military Toehold in Yemen

Russia has stolen a march over the United States in the multi-million-dollar arms market in cash-strapped Yemen, whose weapons purchases are being funded mostly by neighboring Saudi Arabia. The Yemeni armed forces, currently undergoing an ambitious military...

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Empathy for ‘Adversaries’

Empathy is a term that connotes the touchy-feely notion of getting in touch with someone else's feelings or perspective. That's what psychotherapists and social workers do. It obviously has no place in the hard-knocks world of foreign affairs and national security. Or...

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Black Sea Wars

In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgia's former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by Russia but not the West. The Turkish captain was sentenced to 24 years. When Ankara protested, he...

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