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Should the United States Arm Ukraine?
While analysts agree that diplomacy is the ideal route to ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine, they disagree on whether the United States sending defensive weapons to Ukraine will achieve that end. On September 22, the Atlantic Council, in collaboration with the Charles Koch Institute, hosted a debate between experts: Should the United States...
Trudeau Delivers Rallying Cry to Save Global Order
Canadian prime minister, South Korean president, pianist Lang Lang receive Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister and the recipient of the Atlantic Council’s 2017 Global Citizen Award, on September 19 delivered a passionate rallying cry to protect the alliances that have underpinned...
Serviceman of 72nd Brigade Serhii Almuzhnyi killed in Avdiivka area by Russian sniper. PHOTO
Ukrainian fighter Serhii Almuzhnyi, call sign Matros, was killed in the Donbas war. Almuzhnyi enlisted as a volunteer to Donbas Battalion, and later joined the 72nd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Serviceman of 72nd Brigade Serhii Almuzhnyi killed in Avdiivka area by Russian sniper. PHOTO
Ukrainian fighter Serhii Almuzhnyi, call sign Matros, was killed in the Donbas war. Almuzhnyi enlisted as a volunteer to Donbas Battalion, and later joined the 72nd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. …read more Source:...
FTAC: 9/11 – Sixteen Years of Accelerating, Expanding Conflict Between Archaic Worlds and the Modern One
The medieval worldview and its marriage to financial and political power may be archaic in the modern world. Faith in God and religion may be good things, but as demonstrated by the Islamists, by the Saudi Royals and their spreading of Wahhabi madrasas, and by related clerical wealth dependent on subscription plus political repression, too much...
FTAC: Middle East Conflict – Moscow’s Project – Abbas’s End
Abba — Arafat’s known and others may be suspect — bend to Moscow (the KGB record never goes away), and as Moscow has nowhere to go that wouldn’t be trapped in a century-and-one-half old imperial time bubble, neither has Abbas, who has not been able to do more for the Palestinians than enrich his own network through corruption....
Targeting Russia’s Oil: Why Sanctions Will Ultimately Work
It has been three years since the European Union (EU) and the United States enacted a series of sanctions against Russia for the unlawful annexation of Crimea and the subsequent war in eastern Ukraine. Some of these sanctions deliberately target Russia’s oil industry because it is the backbone of the country’s economy. However, as...
Odesa cadets trained to drive combat vehicles afloat. PHOTOS
Cadets from the Odesa Military Academy trained to cross water barriers by combat vehicles at the seaside. …read more Source:...
Module: Moscow and the Middle East Conflict
The story begins in the feudal mode with medieval anti-Semitism. Excerpt – 1920s – The Spread of Hate – Russia -> Germany | An Excerpt from Laqueur FTAC – Tip to the KGB’s Amplification of Middle Eastern Anti-Semitism Palestinian KGB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures...