Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The potential for cooperation in certain areas, like military technology, may look promising. But Iran cannot be counted upon to really help the Russian economy withstand the impact of sanctions.
“For Putin, this war is a game of a chicken.”
Broaching the subject of peace negotiations invites accusations of helping Putin – but that’s misguided.
As the U.S. pours billions in military aid into Ukraine, Democracy Now! hosts a debate on the Biden administration’s response to the war and U.S. policy toward Russia amid increasing calls among progressives for a diplomatic end to the conflict.
The acclaimed BBC series TraumaZone taps into the unsavory world of the Russian economic reforms of the 1990s that proved fatal to democracy, and challenges the popular myth about the Russian 1990s as a blessed era of liberation.
The new state-of-emergency laws introduced by the Kremlin in October are aimed at being able to provide a strategic defense of the “captured objectives” rather than all-out warfare to the bitter end.
The letter itself is very hard to defend because apparently it had been written over the summer and didn't contain up-to-date information on the war. Some of its arguments reflected the fact that it didn't account for Ukraine's successes on the battlefield in the intervening months.
Vladimir Putin didn't talk about the other areas that Russia is now claiming to have annexed following the sham referendum a few weeks ago.
The war in Ukraine may have fallen out of the headlines but it continues to grind on. David speaks with Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
It’s an indication of major fractures, as emerging states leverage digital technology and sophisticated weaponry to compete for influence and power.