Lukashenko’s Russian Nuke Proposal Should Prompt NATO to Finally Pay Attention

Lukashenko’s Russian Nuke Proposal Should Prompt NATO to Finally Pay Attention

Lukashenko’s proposal should hopefully prompt NATO to finally pay attention to Russia’s legitimate security concerns. The bloc cannot continue expanding eastward in violation of the oral obligations that it made to Moscow at the end of the Old Cold War not to advance past the then-recently reunified German frontier. Belarusian President Lukashenko earlier said that…

Manufactured Cruelties: Belarus, Poland and the Refugee Crisis

Manufactured Cruelties: Belarus, Poland and the Refugee Crisis

Refugee crises are often manufactured by governments.  They can be done at the source: war, famine, rapacious institutions.  They can also be manufactured by the refusal of governments to accept those seeking asylum, sanctuary and refuge. The latter is very much in evidence in Europe: governments of the European Union are staring down desperate humans…

Chaos in Eastern Europe Doesn’t Serve Putin’s Interests Unlike What CNN Claims

Chaos in Eastern Europe Doesn’t Serve Putin’s Interests Unlike What CNN Claims

CNN is completely wrong to claim that ‘chaos in eastern Europe is never bad news for Vladimir Putin’. CNN published a piece on Tuesday titled, “Why chaos in eastern Europe is never bad news for Vladimir Putin”. It puts forth a conspiratorial interpretation of recent events there claiming that the Russian leader is exploiting the…

Russia’s Response to an Illegal Immigrant Invasion Would Be Different from Poland’s

Russia’s Response to an Illegal Immigrant Invasion Would Be Different from Poland’s

While the Russian and Polish strategies towards illegal immigrant invaders are the same – assuming that terrorists might be among them out of an abundance of caution, doing everything that’s needed to neutralize the threat, feeling uncomfortable about such a threat amassing in neighboring nations, and preaching national unity during such a time of crisis…

Border Clashes With Migrants Are an Ugly Mirror for Poland

Border Clashes With Migrants Are an Ugly Mirror for Poland

Poland finds itself in the strange position of being the guardians of a European civilization that despises itself, Tim Kirby writes. We have all seen the rather strange cinematic clashes at the Polish border in which migrants, supposedly appearing due to blowback in Afghanistan, are trying to storm the eastern front of the European Union….

A Reminder of Russia’s Skeptical Stance Towards Refugees in Light of Recent Events

A Reminder of Russia’s Skeptical Stance Towards Refugees in Light of Recent Events

Those who criticize Poland’s expression of state sovereignty in defending its borders from terrorist-connected migrant/refugee threats should in the interests of consistency also criticize Russia’s near-identical policy when it comes to preemptively defending itself from the same threats posed by Afghan ones. The True Roots Of The Latest Migrant Crisis The Eastern European Migrant Crisis…