Nord Stream 2 pipe-laying in Swedish waters in the Baltic Sea. Photo by Axel Schmidt. “Canada is supporting Ukraine … because we have a clear and urgent national interest in the situation there.” —Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, January 26, 2022 Amid escalating tensions between the United States, NATO
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Canadian Dimension: Putin, Put’n, and peace in Ukraine
If Putin’s past record is anything to go by, then only as a very last resort will he launch a full-scale invasion of eastern Ukraine, writes Anatol Lieven. Photo by Antonio Marín Segovia/Flickr. A mythological monster is haunting the fevered imagination of the West. Its name, as pronounced by the
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Ukrainian armoured military units near Sloviansk, July 2014. Photo by Sasha Maksymenko/Flickr. Western political and media circles are convinced that Russia has decided to invade Ukraine. They frequently speculate that the invasion will happen in late February, or earlier, because winter creates favourable conditions for Russian tanks and ground troops.
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Ukrainian military unit stands guard, May 2016. Photo courtesy the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Flickr. War is in the air. As most everybody knows by now, Russia has assembled a formidable force at various locations near Ukraine’s borders. Satellite images of military equipment and amateur video of lines of tanks
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The hidden origin of the escalating Ukraine-Russia conflict
A rally at Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) before the massacre of almost 50 protesters, February 20, 2014. Photo by Mykola Vasylechko/Wikimedia Commons. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is now in its most dangerous phase since it began in 2014 after the Western-backed overthrow of the Ukrainian government. Statements by Russian leaders
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Stumbling toward peace in Donbass
Heavy tanks and soldiers during the conflict in the Donbass, 2014. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Despite Canada’s long-standing support for the Ukrainian army—and the reverberations of Ukrainian nationalist politics through Canada’s electoral landscape—there has been almost no coverage of recent peace talks in the war-ravaged Donbass. More concerningly, few have
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: All-Out War in Ukraine
Photo by Pete Souza Introduction There are clear signs that a major war is about to break out in Ukraine: A war actively promoted by the NATO regimes and supported by their allies and clients in Asia (Japan) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia). The war over Ukraine will essentially
Continue readingCanadian Dimension | Articles: Defeat of Ukraine Army Brings Cease-Fire, but Underlying Political Conflicts Unresolved
A ceasefire in the war in eastern Ukraine was announced in Minsk, Belarus on Sept. 5. Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko made a simultaneous announcement in Wales where he was a special guest at the summit meeting of the NATO military alliance. A 12-point agreement was signed in Minsk by representatives
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