Maybe it’s because they’re still smarting from getting their asses handed to them in Iraq and Afghanistan, maybe not. Either way it’s getting a bit embarrassing listening to Western military leaders banging the war drums over Russia. NATO, especially, is sounding the alarm of an all-out shooting war with the
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CuriosityCat: Ukraine: Minsk deal includes de facto federation
Three powerful leaders and one powerless one gathered around a table in Minsk, negotiating a ceasefire agreement for war-torn Ukraine. The negotiations took a surprising turn when the four leaders met alone, without their advisors – it is not yet clear who suggested this, but my bet would be Putin.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Big Deal With Low Confidence – Ukraine
Angela Merkel and Francoise Hollande seem to have pulled it off – a peace deal to end the civil war in Ukraine. What no one is even asking is if there’s a chance it will hold. The shooting stops at 5 p.m. ET Saturday. Like all ceasefires the warring parties
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Are We Really Willing to Go To War over Ukraine?
Would you be okay if it was your kids in uniform going off to a shooting war with the Russians over Ukraine? The whole idea seems fantastic, ridiculous. We tend to dismiss it as unimaginable but giving it short shrift can be lethal. Earlier this week three words caught my
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Banging the War Drums
If you thought you had heard the last of insanely bellicose Anders Fogh “Foggy” Rasmussen when his term as NATO secretary-general lapsed, you were wrong. He’s back and he’s talking war again. “This is not about Ukraine. Putin wants to restore Russia to its former position as a great power,”
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Vlad Putin – NATO’s Essential Enemy
Vlad Putin has given NATO – well, nothing less than a reason to exist a little longer. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO was a headless chicken, running around aimlessly, still on its feet but just. The North Atlantic alliance pretty much took whatever gig it could get.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Obama Comes Clean. Putin Didn’t Plot to Seize Crimea.
Go Ahead, Pick One. Oh my, my, what comes out of the mouth of that man! The Western narrative we’ve been force fed by liars like Harper and his collaborators on the other side of the aisle, is that Vlad Putin plotted to use the unrest in Ukraine to seize
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is Raul Castro’s Cuba the First Big Winner in Cold War II?
Now that Washington and Havana appear to be on the road to kissing and making up, it’s worth considering whether the timing is really that spontaneous? Cuba was always the Soviet’s toe hold in the Americas. It was over Soviet designs in Cuba that the world was brought to the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Let’s Hope We Know What We’re Doing.
It’s hard to know what we really wanted. When the West slammed Russia with sanction piled upon sanction were we seeking retribution over Moscow’s aggression toward Ukraine or were we really trying to bring Russia to its knees? Western leaders have developed a nasty habit of not thinking things through.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Arms Race Update – US to Spend a Trillion Dollars on Upgrading Nukes
US Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, put it bluntly. “No other mission we have is more important.“ The mission Hagel was referring to was a trillion-dollar, 30-year programme to upgrade America’s nuclear weapon arsenal. A trillion dollars. Even today that’s serious money. According to the Associated Press, Hagel told the Pentagon
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper Chasing Votes Down Under
His supposedly blunt message to Vladimir Putin reveals how Steve Harper really knows how to work a room when there’s an election in the offing. Walking up to Putin at the G20 summit, Harper’s aides claim he said this: “Well I guess I’ll share your hand but I only have one
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: PM to Putant: ‘Get out of Ukriant’
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-harper-at-g20-tells-vladimir-putin-to-get-out-of-ukraine-1.2836382
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: PM to Putant: ‘Get out of Ukriant’
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-harper-at-g20-tells-vladimir-putin-to-get-out-of-ukraine-1.2836382
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: PM to Putant: ‘Get out of Ukriant’
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-harper-at-g20-tells-vladimir-putin-to-get-out-of-ukraine-1.2836382
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Word of Warning to NATO from Finland
Finland isn’t impressed with NATO’s anti-Moscow attitude. President Sauli Niinisto will be taking that message to a conference in Helsinki on Thursday with David Cameron and the leaders of the Nordic and Baltic nations. Niinisto says NATO is backing into a new Cold War with Russia. He criticized the West
Continue readingdrive-by planet: The Oliver Stone Rossiyskaya Gazeta interview: Ukraine, US media bias, Putin, MH-17 and more
American film director, Oliver Stone, recently gave a lengthy interview to the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta. He is in the region helping to produce a documentary with the title Ukraine on Fire. Excerpts from the interview showed up in various online publications but I just recently came across an English
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: In Case You Missed It, the Nuclear Option is Back
Vlad Putin is going for his nukes and we need to grasp our role in getting him there. Russia is re-arming with a new class of nuclear submarines, a new and possibly illegal inter-continental ballistic missile and a new strategic bomber. Our sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine are working.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Pentagon Exploits Tensions Over Ukraine, Pushes for Multi-Purpose Sensor Chain Across Canada’s Arctic
Arrest that Man, He’s From Russia! They sure know how to pick their opportunities. At the very moment NATO leaders are in Wales fretting over what to do with Vlad Putin and the future of Ukraine, America’s brass are floating the idea of establishing a “multi-purpose sensor chain” across the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: NATO Leaders Huddle and Fume While Putin Chuckles
NATO’s Drang Nach Osten There’ll be an absolute glut of righteous indignation when NATO leaders convene this week in Wales to decide whatever to do with that big bad bully, the Russian Bear, Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, as The Guardian’s Simon Jenkins writes, Putin will be kicking back in Red Square laughing
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Mr. Prime Minister, One of These Is Almost Exactly Like the Other
– Steve Bell, The Guardian
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