February, 2022

• 26 February

  Explosions heard in Kyiv as Ukrainian president says ‘enemy sabotage groups’ have entered capital

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says “enemy sabotage groups” have entered Kyiv, the capital, as Russian forces close in. Two loud booms were heard from the city at around 4 a.m. local time. A residential building in Kyiv caught fire, sparked by what appeared to be rocket debris, and the capital’s …

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• 26 February

  Ukrayna Büyükelçisi Bodnar: Çanakkale Boğazı’nın kapatılması talebinde bulunuyoruz

  Ukrayna’nın Ankara Büyükelçisi Vasyl Bodnar: Saldırıya geçen Rus askerlerinden ciddi kayıplar söz konusu. Ukrayna’yı savunan askerlerimizde de kayıplar var, siviller arasında da kayıplar olduğu bilgisi geliyor. ‘RUS ORDUSUNDA KAYIPLAR SÖZ KONUSU’ Ukrayna’nın Ankara Büyükelçisi Vasyl Bodnar, büyükelçilikte basın mensuplarının sorularını yanıtladı. Büyükelçi Bodnar, saldırıların devam ettiğini belirterek, “Ukrayna topraklarında Rus …

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• 26 February

  Putin’s ‘Special Operation’ Makes It Clear That NATO, Rather Than Donetsk, Is The Issue

  

  This morning, (February 24, 2022) Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing the Russian public, after having addressed it three days earlier, announced the start of a ‘special operation’ in Ukraine. While still clinging to the narrative that this was a defensive action to protect the self-proclaimed republics in Donetsk the Russian …

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• 25 February

  Ukraine: It’s The New World Order, Stupid – Analysis

  

  Ukraine is about much more than the security of one sovereign nation. The battle for Ukraine is a battle for the new world order. In that battle, Russian President Vladimir Putin is living up to the worst expectations of Western policymakers and analysts. Unlike Chinese President Xi Jinping, Mr. Putin …

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• 25 February

  Ukraine Deserves EU Candidate Status, Polish And Lithuanian Leaders Tell Zelenskiy

  

  The leaders of Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania on February 23 signed a joint declaration in Kyiv on February 23 saying Ukraine deserves to be granted candidate status for membership in the European Union. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the declaration sent an important signal to the people of Ukraine, and …

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• 25 February

  Russian Weakness And The Russian ‘Threat’ To The West

  

  The current advocates for US aggression against Russia would have us believe that Russia is some sort of peer of the United States and of Western Europe. Tom Rogan at the hawkish Washington Examiner, for example, insists that Russia is a “great power,” presumably comparable to the United States in …

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• 25 February

  Neutrality For Taiwan? Why It Remains An Option

  

  The entry of the Taiwanese delegation in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4 served again as a reminder of the largest dilemma plaguing international relations in East Asia today. As the Guardian aptly reported, its “athletes had to march under a banner saying Chinese Taipei …

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• 25 February

  Pakistan’s Taliban Plans

  

  Pakistan’s Taliban movement, led by its most vicious and largest group, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and apparently buoyed by the recent triumph of their ethnic Pashtun cousins in Afghanistan, is revitalizing its strategy either for regional autonomy or to overthrow Pakistan’s government and replace it with an Islamic Emirate of Pakistan …

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• 25 February

  Why Is Democratic Biden Rescuing Autocratic Erdoğan at the Expense of U.S. Allies?

  

  In early January… in a bolder, less expected and potentially damaging geostrategic move that angered all four of Turkey’s Mediterranean rivals (Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt), the Biden administration silently abandoned an eastern Mediterranean pipeline project (EastMed) that would carry Israeli gas through Cyprus to Europe. “By undermining the project, …

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• 25 February

  Putin quer metade da Europa. Nós só queremos duche de água quente?

  Se a Europa não se der ao respeito através da reconfiguração da sua política de segurança e energética, todos os países do ex-Pacto de Varsóvia sentirão um medo constante e, nesse medo, as forças extremistas e pró-russas ganharão ainda mais peso, criando assim o sonho de Putin: dividir a Europa …

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