Eastern Europe

A Canadian Student’s Experience Training in the Lithuanian Army

This article shares the intimate experience of Joris Meiklejohn, a second year engineering student at the University of Toronto, and the time he spent in the Lithuanian army during the Covid 19 pandemic and the start of the Russian war in Ukraine.

Why warning Putin of ‘catastrophic consequences’ isn’t enough

Putin is not afraid to escalate, to intimidate, to extort. We are — and he knows it. This must be reversed.

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Pushing for a ‘negotiated settlement’ in Ukraine guts our deterrence credibility

A “diplomatic solution” in Ukraine would be a group hug around a delusion, the only predictability being its breach.

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Scary links: Russia, al-Zawahiri and Ukraine’s destruction

Here’s the backstory to the backstory of our July 31 drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of al Qaeda, and the apparent connection.

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A Devastating Blow to the EU as Macedonia Remains in Limbo

Allegations of Macron’s potential backing of Bulgaria’s demands on Macedonia raise concern for EU credibility in the western Balkans.

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Op-ed: Turn Putin Inward

Address by the President of the Russian Federationl

Seeking to merely “contain” Putin is not enough. We have been outplayed, outsmarted and outmaneuvered in Europe, the Middle East, Venezuela, Africa and the Arctic. And simply repeating the pattern of reacting, deterring, responding, defending will not work.

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Ukraine saved the west – why the opposition from America’s Conservative Right? asks Victor Rud

Although bi-partisan support for American support of Ukraine remains strong, bizarrely there is a growing resistance to it by the Republican Party’s far-right.

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Ukrainians will fight — they have nowhere to go

This is a reprint of a Toronto Star article dated January 17th, 2022 with permission from the author Alexandra Chyczij and with the cooperation of her co-writer Orest Zakydalsky.

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The Ukraine Crises Compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis

This article discusses the error of drawing an analogy between today’s Ukrainian crisis to the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis asserting that
due to Ukraine’s denuclearization following the Budapest Accord the situation today is different than what took place in 1962.

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Putin’s Claim That Ukrainians Are Part of Russian Civilization Is Bogus – Here’s Why

This article discusses Putin’s contention that there is a Russian civilization that envelops Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians
based on a historical link to Kyivan Rus’. That contention is rebutted and the history of Ukraine is explored as a separate nation linked to Kyivan Rus.

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