Eurasia Press & News
Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense. We are being told each day that war may be imminent in Ukraine. Russian troops, we are told, are massing at Ukraine’s borders and could attack at any …
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February, 2022
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16 February
Biden Administration Kills Israel-to-Europe Gas Pipeline
Biden’s decision — reportedly coordinated with Turkey but reached without consulting Israel, Greece or Cyprus, the main countries involved in the project — undercuts three of the strongest American allies in the Mediterranean region. EastMed’s cancellation — variously described as a “disastrous decision,” a “strategic mistake” and an act of …
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16 February
Opposition leader boycotts bills; will Erdoğan respond?
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu announced that he would not pay his electricity bills, calling out President Tayyip Erdoğan to take back the gradual electricity price hikes that were taken into effect at the beginning of the year that raised protests all over Turkey. You …
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16 February
Ucrania: la extraña campaña de comunicación estratégica de EEUU
Para disuadir a Rusia de invadir Ucrania, Estados Unidos está librando una campaña de información de inteligencia, revelando conclusiones, pero no pruebas Quién sabe –salvo Putin– si habrá invasión rusa de Ucrania y guerra, aunque incluso en ese caso es sumamente improbable que intervenga la OTAN en lo que no …
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16 February
The tragic US exit from Afghanistan was rooted in decades of failure
An important new Atlantic piece on the trauma of the withdrawal should be put in the wider context of American incompetence. The betrayal of Afghanistan was solidified years ago when U.S. leaders made promises they should have, or must have, known they could never keep. The inevitable consequences of creating …
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16 February
India tilts towards Russia in Ukraine fight at the UN
New Delhi will continue to resist falling in line with Washington, potentially thwarting American strategies of neo-primacy. As the Ukraine crisis rages on, where is India’s voice? Until recently, it was mostly missing in action. But a vote on Tuesday at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on whether to …
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16 February
Why I want to kill Biden’s massive US-Egyptian arms deal
Washington must stop rewarding this strongman, whose tyrannical government tortures children and makes a mockery of justice. According to tradition, King Menes united the two lands of Egypt about 5,000 years ago. Although Egypt appears as a single state on the globe today, American foreign policy still treats the country …
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16 February
Army of Ukraine lobbyists behind unprecedented Washington blitz
An analysis of FARA filings shows they contacted members of Congress and others over 10,000 times. As tensions with Russia reach a boiling point, lobbyists from Ukraine are working feverishly to shape the U.S. response. Firms working for Ukrainian interests have inundated congressional offices, think tanks, and journalists with more …
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16 February
Ukraine Standoff! Will cooler heads prevail?
The drums of war are beating again! It is at the border between Russia and Ukraine and in the corridors of the power elites in Washington. It is kind of shocking to see the readiness for another war so soon among the Neocons considering the recent debacle in Afghanistan, an …
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16 February
US moves embassy from Ukraine’s capital Kiev to the western city of Lviv
Amid an ongoing war frenzy in the American media, the US cleared out its embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and relocated its diplomatic staff 340 miles west to Lviv, near the border with Poland. Since Thursday, the Biden administration and the corporate press have peddled unsubstantiated allegations that a …
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