The article discusses the urgent need for Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction, emphasizing its strategic importance for the West and the threat posed by Russia, while questioning the feasibility of relying solely on the private sector for funding and proposing alternative solutions.
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The article argues that Russia’s collapse is imminent due to its dire financial situation, weakened military, internal ethnic tensions, and growing separatist movements, with regions on its periphery likely to demand autonomy or secede, potentially leading to the dissolution of the Russian Federation.
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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.
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Putin is not afraid to escalate, to intimidate, to extort. We are — and he knows it. This must be reversed.
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A “diplomatic solution” in Ukraine would be a group hug around a delusion, the only predictability being its breach.
Continue readingHere’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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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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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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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.
Continue readingThis 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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