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The Wider War: Russia’s Assault on Ukraine — and the West

  July 1, 2022 Uncategorized

Russian forces seek to consolidate their hold on the Donbas region and launch air and missile strikes across Ukraine. NATO formally invites Sweden and Finland to join the alliance, announces the expansion of its rapid Response Force, and unveils a new strategy to confront Moscow. U.S. President Joe Biden says the United States will station permanent forces on NATO’s eastern flank. And this all comes a week after the European Union officially made Ukraine a candidate for membership. Continue reading

NATO allies fear Putin’s Belarus military build-up will be permanent

  February 16, 2022 Uncategorized

he Russian deployment to Belarus is ostensibly for military exercises that are scheduled to run until February 20. But they are being deployed menacingly close the Belarusian-Ukrainian border at a time when Russia continues to concentrate more than 100,000 troops near its own border with Ukraine and in the annexed Crimean peninsula. Meanwhile, the Russian Navy is conducting live fire exercises in the Black Sea near Ukraine’s coast. Continue reading

Has Lukashenka’s Anti-NATO Gambit Paid Off with Putin?

  October 27, 2021 Uncategorized

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu recently invoked the NATO boogeyman as justification for closer military integration with Belarus. And that may be a sign that Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s gambit to go all in on Moscow’s conflict with the West has convinced the Kremlin to keep him around. Continue reading