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Daily Beast- Putin’s Sleight-of-Hand Invasion

16 Saturday Aug 2014

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in European News

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Russia, Ukraine

Anna Nemtsova, The Daily Beast

MOSCOW — On Thursday night a caravan of about 270 Russian military trucks, all freshly painted white, parked in a field outside the small town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) from the Ukrainian border. But long after dark, according to a report by a correspondent for The Guardian who happened on the scene, 23 Russian armored personnel carriers crossed through a gap in the barbed wire fence onto a dirt track in an area no longer guarded by Ukrainian troops… (More)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/14/putin-s-freshly-painted-humanitarian-aid-convoy-nears-ukraine.html

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Is Putin this century’s Hitler?

02 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Military and Defense, Russia, Ukraine

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Adolf Hitler, Crimea, Nazi Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Questionable constitutional changes to gain and retain power, using armed thugs to suppress opposition and critical press, using hate speech against a minority group to divert attention from national problems, and now invading a neighboring sovereign nation to “protect” citizens who claim ethnic ties to his country from their own government – Vladimir Putin has often been compared to Adolf Hitler.

With his current occupation of sovereign Ukraine territory in the Crimean and his likely expansion into the the rest of eastern Ukraine, Putin is inviting more comparisons. Will his own people begin to se him that way? Or will they continue to support him, or at least tolerate him, while he takes pages from the playbook of their most hated enemy of all time?

Is Putin this century’s Hitler?

Here are a couple of recent articles.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/461770/Expert-likens-possible-Putin-action-on-Ukraine-to-Hitler-s-1938-move-on-Czechoslovakia

http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/boris-danik-putins-sudetenland-338092.html

300 Lithuanian troops to take part in NATO exercises in Poland and Baltics

16 Wednesday Oct 2013

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Baltics, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense

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Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, NATO, NATO Response Force, Poland, Ukraine

English: Emblem of the . Deutsch: Wappen der N...

Emblem of the NATO Response Force (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

by Lithuania Tribune, October 4, 2013

300 Lithuanian troops will take part in the so-called Chapter 5 exercises in Poland and the Baltic States, designed to test preparedness of the NATO Response Force to respond to an international crisis…

…The Steadfast Jazz 2013 exercises will involve about 6,000 personnel from 20 NATO member countries and partner nation Ukraine. During the event, 3,000 staff personnel from Joint Force Command Brunssum and other allied joint staffs will take part in a command and control exercise at the Adazi Base, Latvia. In addition, 3,000 troops will be involved in a live exercise at Poland’s Drawsko Pomorskie Training area…(more)

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  • Russian War Games on Baltic Border Spark Security Fears (bloomberg.com)
  • Sweden To Join NATO Response Force (glblgeopolitics.wordpress.com)
  • The security concerns of the Baltic States as NATO allies (brucekanderson.com)
  • Commanders Discuss NATO-Russian Observations of Military Exercises (news.err.ee)
  • NATO Fosters Partnerships Key to Future Success (defense.gov)
  • NATO plans major east European exercise (worldbulletin.net)
  • NATO Plans Major East European Exercise (voanews.com)
  • Meanwhile, Over at the Massive Russian Military Buildup… (news.err.ee)

Commentary: Can Ukraine Shed Its Soviet Skin?

26 Thursday Sep 2013

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in European News, Foreign Policy, Ukraine

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Eastern Partnership, European Union, Orange Revolution, Poland, Post-Soviet states, Russia, Soviet Union, Sweden, Ukraine

The European Union and Ukraine

The European Union and Ukraine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Adam Reichardt, The National Interest, Sept. 26, 2013

It is hard to believe that the election and events that set into motion Ukraine’s Orange Revolution took place nearly nine years ago. The scenes of young Ukrainians camping out on Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), demanding that their voice be heard and the will of the people not be ignored, was a moment which many believed was not only an awakening for Ukraine, but also a significant change in the whole of the former Soviet Union. One of the largest of the former Soviet states (excluding Russia) had finally begun to make its first strides towards Europe.

The energy and hope that arose out of the Orange Revolution was one of the main drivers behind a movement to bring a final end to the already tattered Iron Curtain. This initiative, which was launched in 2009 under the leadership of Sweden and Poland, became known as the Eastern Partnership (EaP). The goal was to create conditions that would enable greater political association and further economic integration between the European Union and the partnership countries. The belief then was that this project would speed up democratic, economic, institutional and civil-society reforms to bring these states closer to Europe. Membership in the Eastern Partnership was opened to the remaining “European” states that were once members of the Soviet Union—Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The 2008 war between Russia and Georgia further emphasized the need to create a stronger engagement with these countries, especially if they have aspirations to join the European community…

…The biggest Elephant in the East remains Ukraine, the largest of these countries. For both Europe and Russia, Ukraine is still considered to be the big prize. With a population of over forty-five million people (more than its western neighbor Poland) Ukraine’s potential as a consumer society is quite large. Opening up European markets to Ukraine and vice versa could be potentially a game-changer in the Eastern European region. A large section of Ukraine’s population is Russian-speaking, which can be advantageous to European companies who want to eventually do more business in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union… (more)

Related articles
  • Yanukovych Sure on EU Pact as Ukraine Braces for Russia Backlash – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
  • Ukraine’s EU trade deal will be catastrophic, says Russia (theguardian.com)
  • Russia warns Ukraine against EU deal (news.yahoo.com)
  • Russia or EU? Former Soviet republics face hard decisions (indrus.in)
  • Russia Opposes Free-Trade Deal Between the EU and Ukraine (americanlivewire.com)
  • Russia threatens Ukraine with bankruptcy over plans to sign EU agreement (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Ukraine and EU ridicule Russian threats (euobserver.com)
  • The Kremlin’s Collapsing Eurasian Sandcastle (nationalinterest.org)
  • Roubini Urges Ukraine to Sign EU Accord Over Russian Deal (bloomberg.com)

Exercise Rapid Trident 2013 – Multinational exercise in the Ukraine

16 Tuesday Jul 2013

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in European News, Military and Defense

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Interoperability, NATO, NATO-Ukraine, Partnership for Peace, Rapid Trident, Ukraine, United States, United States European Command

English: Location map of Ukraine within Europe

Location map of Ukraine within Europe (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Rapid Trident supports interoperability among Ukraine, the United States, NATO and Partnership for Peace member nations. The exercise helps prepare participants to operate successfully in a joint, multinational, integrated environment with host-nation support from civil and governmental agencies.

Rapid Trident is a part of U.S. European Command’s Joint Training and Exercise Program, designed to enhance joint combined interoperability with allied and partner nations.

The exercise also supports Ukraine’s Annual National Program to achieve interoperability with NATO and commitments made in the annual NATO-Ukraine work plan.

Related articles
  • Ukraine hospitals treating 19 soldiers during international war game (upi.com)
  • NATO Advise Ukraine on Military Education Reform (sys-con.com)
  • Slovakia: NATO Conducts Largest-Ever Logistics Exercise (rickrozoff.wordpress.com)
  • NATO starts large-scale security drills in Baltic region (panarmenian.net)

RFERL: Armenian Troops Flown To Germany For Training

22 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Balkans, Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense

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Armenia, Bulgaria, Germany, Kosovo, NATO, Romania, Russia, Ukraine

The commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Mark Hertling (R), inspects Armenian peacekeeping troops in Yerevan, 18Jul2012 (Photo: RFE/RL)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 15, 2012

More than 100 Armenian soldiers flew to Germany on Wednesday to take part in training and exercises organized by the U.S. military for nations involved in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.

The Armenian Defense Ministry said the 116 soldiers will train at a U.S. military base in Germany from August 16 through September 4 alongside U.S., Bulgarian, Romanian, Slovenian and Ukrainian troops… (more)

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/24678060.html

 

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  • RFERL: Does Russia-Georgia-War Film Signal A Rift Between Putin And Medvedev? (brucekanderson.com)
  • Armenian peacekeepers leave for Kosovo (panarmenian.net)

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