Tag Archives: Vladimir Putin

Tit for tat.More on the great chessboard. Russia Insider Daily HeadlinesPutin to Trump: If You Arm the Ukraine, I'll Arm the Taliban Charles Bausman

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a conciliatory solution toward resolving the crisis on the Korean peninsula, noting that the incorporation of North Korea into joint development projects across the region could soothe the frayed nerves caused by the region’s militarization and the ratcheting-up of tensions. Such a move would not only serve mutually-beneficial economic interests of the divided Korean peninsula and Russia, Putin noted, but would help build trust and strengthen...

Only an apocalyptic war can hinder the march of a multilateral world "The shit's on," as they say in the military. And I don't rule out apocalyptic war. The world is now in a position eerily similar to the lead up to WWI and WWII. The big difference now is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction that may act as a deterrent. We need some sense to prevail, and good sense seems to be in short supply. Russia InsiderPutin Hits Back: Vows to Destroy Western Financial and Trade...

Much Western media and many observers of Russian politics are fond of playing up an ostensible revival of Stalin – his ‘rehabilitation’ as it were – under Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule. This is not just inaccurate — as I have written in the past, the Putin era has seen numerous anti-Stalinist and non-Stalinist state-funded projects including mass audience films, television serials, museums and monuments — but it dangerously distorts our understanding of contemporary Russia....

Russia-watcher Miriam Elder noted in a piece on BuzzFeed that Putin's response and other statements he has made about Ukraine in the past reflect some of the arguments put forward by Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in a 1990 essay titled "Rebuilding Russia." Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyIs Putin 'Rebuilding Russia' According To Solzhenitsyn's Design? Robert Coalson

As relations worsen, US must realize Russia will not soon, if ever, become a liberal democracy.… Carried away by ahistorical reasoning, the U.S. believed its victory in the Cold War meant that Russia, like all other countries, had little choice but to adopt the liberal democratic free-market order that had brought prosperity and peace to the West.... The real problem is viewing this as problem. Probably no non-Western state will become a liberal democracy because it is not in accord with...