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Sen. John McCain on Russia’s airstrikes in Syria
Shades of Churchill in 1938: Winston Churchill, denouncing the Munich Agreement in the House of Commons, declared: “We have suffered a total and unmitigated defeat … you will find that in a period of...
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Niall Ferguson: The Real Obama Doctrine – Real Daily Buzz
Niall Ferguson on US strategy in the Middle East: Henry Kissinger long ago recognized the problem: a talented vote-getter, surrounded by lawyers, who is overly risk-averse. Even before becoming Richard...
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Containment 2.0 [podcast]
Always interesting to listen to James Sherr of Chatham House discuss global geo-politics. http://www.rferl.org/audio/27310324.html Can the West contain a Russia that is determined to upend the...
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Oil market showdown: can Russia outlast the Saudis?
Dalan McEndree writing in Oilprice.com : While the sharp decline in crude prices has saved crude consuming nations hundreds of billions of dollars, the loss in revenues has caused crude exporting...
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Crude testing support
Crude futures (Light Crude December 2015 – CLZ2015) are testing support at $44.50 per barrel. Follow-through below $44.00 would signal another test of primary support at $40. Supply continues to exceed...
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Putin’s Crimean gamble: Russia, Ukraine, and the new Cold War
http://7515766d70db9af98b83-7a8dffca7ab41e0acde077bdb93c9343.r43.cf1.rackcdn.com/151026_PutinsGamble.mp3 From the Brookings Institute: Since the time of Catherine the Great, Crimea has been a global...
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Airport Donetsk: There are no victors in war
A surprisingly even-handed documentary of the battle for Donetsk Airport. The overwhelming hardship and sacrifice endured by both sides merely underlines this stark message: There are no victors in...
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Russia’s protesting truckers | Euromaidan Press
Vladimir Putin’s worst nightmare — a trucker-Maidan. Dmytro Homon writes: First, the protest is spontaneous and is not coordinated from a single center. For that reason, the police have been unable to...
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Putin: Despotic leader of a failing state….
“Putin is not some evil genius from a James Bond movie, he’s the despotic leader of a failing state under immense fiscal strain.” ~ David Llewellyn-Smith from Macrobusiness, commenting on the...
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A New Cold War? Russia’s Confrontation with the West
Michael A. McFaul, Stanford University professor of political science; director and senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover...
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The Man Who Got Russia Right | Foreign Policy
Susan Glasser on George Kennan, author of the famous Long Telegram that formed American policy during the Cold War: ….Based in Moscow a few years later, Kennan saw the historical contradictions that...
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Goldman Cuts 2017 Oil Price Forecast Due To Slower Market Rebalancing | Zero...
Goldman Sachs has cut its long-term crude oil forecasts: The inflection phase of the oil market continues to deliver its share of surprises, with low prices driving disruptions in Nigeria, higher...
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