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Category Archives: Regimes
Trump could trump Putin on Ukraine
Andrew L. Urban Vladimir Putin is playing his cards in the Ukraine Invasion Stakes as if he held the trump card. A resolute player at the table might well trump that card. On the 2nd anniversary of his invasion of … Continue reading
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Volodymyr Zelensky – the frontline President
The second book by Andrew L. Urban and Chris McLeod to examine Ukraine’s President in the context of the Russian invasion of February 2022, contrasts Zelensky, often at the front line leading his military with Russia’s Vladimir Putin anywhere but … Continue reading
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Why Russia shouldn’t lead the UN Security Council
SVITLANA MORENET in The Spectator (April 16, 2023) has written a useful analysis of Russia’s position in the UN. Ukraine was a founding member of the United Nations, an organisation created to ‘maintain international peace and security’ after the Second … Continue reading
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Ukraine Was Conned
Andrew L. Urban Brought up in the grunt town of Kryvyi Rih, a Soviet-looking industrial city in the southeast of Ukraine, a centre of iron mining and metallurgy, Volodymyr Zelensky knew about bullies before he left school. To survive among … Continue reading
ZELENSKY, the first book about the world’s newest hero, authored by Australians
Ukraine’s most popular comedic actor was an unlikely President of his country. And now even more improbably, Volodymyr Zelensky has become the world’s most celebrated statesman. Yet more improbably, the first book about him comes from Australia. Australian authors Andrew L. … Continue reading
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Zelensky to Australia: Russian action a threat to world
Wearing his now iconic battle green T-shirt, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was beamed into the Australian Parliament chamber on March 31, 2022, above the heads of the business-wear dressed members and senators filling the seats in respectful anticipation. After the … Continue reading
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Ukraine was conned
Andrew L. Urban All three signatories to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum promising protection for Ukraine against attack in return for Ukraine abandoning all of its nuclear weapons, have failed to abide by that agreement. The Russian Federation most egregiously by … Continue reading
Putin’s Playbook – playing Americans for suckers
Andrew L. Urban Perhaps the biggest mistake of the American intel world is to have imagined that Russians think like Americans. They don’t, writes Rebekah Koffler in her authoritative and alarming book Putin’s Playbook – Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat … Continue reading
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Nuclear weapons are not like hand guns
Andrew L. Urban Western leaders shrivelled in the face of an undefined threat of escalation by Vladimir Putin, as they tried to tailor their military assistance to Ukraine according to whatever Putin found acceptable. He has nukes! Yes, he has … Continue reading
Don’t just stand there…
Andrew L. Urban The 1994 Budapest Memorandum , states that “Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of time” ..the following is agreed: “Article 4. The United States … Continue reading