A aposta de Putin

No Picture

Crimea, European Union, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, Russia, sanctions, U.N. Charter, U.N. Convention Against Torture, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin January 20, 2015

REPRISE: If Putin invades Mariupol and seizes a land corridor to the Crimea, what will NATO, the U.S. and the EU do?

Originally published October 3, 2014 See Update (October 31, 2014), here. Russia’s continuing aggression in the Ukraine, and continuing appeasement in the West The ceasefire…

No Picture

Barack Obama, Crimea, Dictatorship, elections, European Union, International Law, Russia, sanctions, State Department, U.N. Charter, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes October 31, 2014

REPRISE: If Putin invades Mariupol and seizes a land corridor to the Crimea, what will NATO, the U.S. and the EU do?

Der Spiegel reports renewed fighting around the Donetsk airport and, much more ominously, that the leader of the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, has threatened…

No Picture

Barack Obama, Brazil, Crimea, Deutschland, Dictatorship, European Union, France, freedom of speech, Germany, human rights, India, NATO, Russia, sanctions, self-defense, State Department, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S Foreign Relations, U.S. Military, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin October 3, 2014

If Putin invades Mariupol and seizes a land corridor to the Crimea, what will NATO, the U.S. and the EU do?

See Update (October 31, 2014), here. Russia’s continuing aggression in the Ukraine, and continuing appeasement in the West The ceasefire in the Ukraine established by…

No Picture

Barack Obama, Crimea, Deutschland, Dictatorship, Dimming Vision of World Affairs, European Union, foreign news coverage, France, Germany, human rights, International Law, NATO, Russia, sanctions, self-defense, State Department Legal Adviser, U.N. Charter, U.S. Military, U.S. news coverage, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin September 27, 2014

Putin’s threats against NATO and other countries

There are disturbing signs that Vladimir Putin’s ambitions, following his successful invasions of the Crimea and the eastern Ukraine, have become or remain boundless. He…

No Picture

Barack Obama, China, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Deutschland, Dictatorship, European Union, France, freedom of speech, Germany, History, human rights, International Law, NATO, Russia, sanctions, self-defense, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, U.N. Charter, U.S. Military, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United Nations Secretary General, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes September 24, 2014

REPRISE II — Putin’s wager: Russia’s rogue authoritarianism versus fundamental human rights and the existing international political and legal order

Russia and the Ukraine—The Big Picture Originally published April 24, 2014 In a fatal error, Putin challenges the modern postwar international political and legal order…

No Picture

Barack Obama, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Dictatorship, European Union, freedom of speech, History, human rights, human rights reports, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, NATO, Russia, sanctions, self-defense, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S Foreign Relations, Ukraine, United States, use of force, vision of peace, Vladimir Putin, war crimes August 9, 2014

REPRISE — Putin’s wager: Russia’s rogue authoritarianism versus fundamental human rights and the existing international political and legal order

Russia and the Ukraine—The Big Picture Originally published April 24, 2014 In a fatal error, Putin challenges the modern postwar international political and legal order…