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Afghanistan – to be or not?
"democracies make elections, elections don't make democracies" After Afghanistan's fraudulent elections President Obama's future politics in failing state is still foggy. Conflicting views of Obama's staff, escalation of War to Pakistan, lack of clear...
Tags: Afghanistan, US foreign policy, EU external relations, crisis management, Obama, Karzai, BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila
New Player in Caspian Sea Power Corridor
Competition – or development – of EU's eastern gas supply routes has intensified this year. Both EU/U.S. backed Nabucco and Russia's South Stream have made deals to guarantee realization of new pipelines until 2015. The EU’s new...
Tags: Energy supply, gas pipes, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, China, Nabucco, South Stream, TAPI, BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila, US foreign policy, SRS, GUUAM
Hell Froze Over: Russia Backs Sanctions Against Iran?
Cut and Print! We need to document this accordingly! Read in the news tonight that Russian president Dmitri Medvedev has generally agreed that sanctions against Iran would be "unfortunate but inevitable." This coming from one country that...
Tags: Arms Trade, Iran, nonproliferation, Nuclear, US Foreign Policy
Who Concedes First? Israelis vs. Palestinians
Following the deep and long history of turmoil between the Palestinian and Israeli people in the Middle East can be summed up by this metaphor: Two people grabbing a plate with the last cookie on it, both cajoling the other to let go, promising to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Israel, Palestine, Trilateral Talks, US Foreign Policy, West Bank
The New Justice League Of America: Interrogation Revamp
I guess all of the back and forth surrounding the interrogation efforts that took place during the Bush Administration is the motivation for this. Today, President Obama approved a revamp of the way that interrogation of prisoners connected...
Tags: Afganistan, intelligence, Iraq, prisoners of war, US Foreign Policy, War on Terrorism
Fight Night 2K9: NATO v. Taliban - Afghan Free Election Edition
It seems that the accepted key to a change in Middle Eastern affairs is in the power of elections and the countrymen taking ownership of the government through the vote. It has been a method pushed in Iraq, a story that has been in the...
Tags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan elections, Elections, NATO, Taliban, US Foreign Policy
Taliban: Dirty Tricks, Abductions & War Propaganda
It has been 2 years since a U.S. soldier was reported abducted in Iraq or Afghanistan. Well, that good fortune has changed with the confirmed abduction of Pte Bowe Bergdahl, a 23 year old from Idaho. A video of him filmed by his captors can...
Tags: Afghanistan, al-qaeda, Bowe Bergdahl, Osama bin Laden, prisoners of war, Taliban, US Foreign Policy
Dotting the I's, Crossing the T's: Investigating War Crimes in Afghanistan
Because there are allegations that the Bush administration avoided investigating the deaths of 1000 Taliban prisoners that surrendered in Afganistan in 2001, President Obama has ordered his National Security team to investigate it. Good play...
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Geneva Conventions, George W. Bush, prisoners of war, US Foreign Policy
IRAN – revolution postponed
Revolution in Iran seems to happen only in western dreams and media. Protests took place only in Tehran and a few large cities and are now nearly disappeared. Smaller towns and rural areas have been very quiet whole the time after elections. The...
Tags: Iran, Iran election 2009, Ahmadinejev, demonstrations, democracy, Russia, Israel, US foreign policy, BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila
From Cold War to Warm Relations? U.S., Russia, & Nuclear Weapons
I guess if anything can unite enemies of the past is a shared enemy of the present. And I am not pointing to any one country or leader that both the Russians and the U.S. are threatened by. I am speaking of a general topic: nuclear proliferation....
Tags: Barack Obama, Medvedev, Nuclear, nuclear proliferation, Russia, Soviet Union, US Foreign Policy
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