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Saturday, 31 October 2015

Putin taking Ukraine to court. A sign of Putin's total failure in eastern Ukraine?

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Ian Talley ( left ) has reported that, "....Ukraine’s Western allies are preparing to accelerate planned changes to the Internation...
Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Putin, Valdai, and the Ukrainian elections.

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Now that the dust is beginning to settle on the war in eastern Ukraine, Putin is becoming more and more emroiled in Syria and Transnistria....
Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Putin is hammering the final nail in the coffin of the ex Soviet Union

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Adrian Karatnycky ( left ) and Alexander Motyl ( right ) suggest that, " Put...
Monday, 19 October 2015

Putin fails to get Ukraine off the international agenda

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Just as Putin thought that he had the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on his side after wooing him with membership of the Eurasia...
Thursday, 15 October 2015

Putin, Mogherini, and MH17

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In my blog entry ( December 15, 2014 ) I wrote that, " Mogherini herself does not see sanctions as an end in themself  but, like Fr...
Saturday, 10 October 2015

Has Putin over-played his hand in Syria?

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Rather presciently, and alluding to Putin's 'little green men' that invaded and annexed Ukrainian Crimea almost two years ago, ...
Sunday, 4 October 2015

Is Putin's Syrian gambit doomed to failure?

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Putin's UN speech has come and gone, and now his Syrian gambit is being played out as he begins to shore up the belleagured Bashar Al A...