The Way I See it

Courtesy of Bing Russia and/or China Make a Move – or Don’t In the first part of this piece, I argued that there was a better than even chance why Russian and China might make serious strategic moves with international repercussions in their near-abroads in the next year or so. I also argued that there were important reasons why they might not. First, the reasons for the affirmative view. There are essentially three factors that militate in the direction of a coordinated or u

Courtesy of Bing #Russia-China Entente, #near abroad, #regional conflict, #Belarus, #Ukraine, #Taiwan, #North Korea, #Venezuela, #East China Sea, #Sea of Azov, #Putin, #Xi Jinping, #Trump, #Finland, #Vietnam, #Soviet-German Alliance, #Canada, #Australia. The Russian-Chinese “Entente” We humans are not very good at anticipating the future, but we understandably try. I think that there is a better than even chance that Russia and /or China will make serious strategic moves with

Image by Dana Dramowicz This blog was originally posted on the website of the Security Governance Group on 3 March 2015. Thoughts on the meeting on the Ukrainian crisis that recently took place in the Belarusian capital with French President Hollande, German Chancellor Merkel, Ukrainian President Poroshenko and his Russian homologue Vladimir Putin . The 11 February meeting in the Belarusian capital with French President Hollande, German Chancellor Merkel, Ukrainian President

This blog first appeared on the website of the Centre for Security Governance on 1 May 2014. Vladimir Putin’s ideology has three basic tenets. The first is that Russia has a right and a responsibility to protect Russian speakers outside the country, no matter what. The second is that Russia’s natural borders have been reduced by questionable diplomatic and political deals that must be reversed. The third is that Russia, like the America he recently criticised for just this re