Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Archives

We Always Knew the Dangers of NATO Expansion

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on April 5, 2023 Cold War - Old and New, COLD WAR 1 & 2, EUROPE, NATO, Russia, Russia international relations, Ukraine, United States - Empire and domestic, US Empire decline, US EMPIRE/WEST DECLINE

Ted Snider April 5, 2023 In 2008, William Burns, who is now Biden’s director of the CIA but was then ambassador to Russia, warned that “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin).” He warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that “I have yet to find […]

Vijay Prashad: The World Does Not Want a Global NATO

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on August 5, 2022 Cold War - Old and New, NATO

Fuyuko Matsui, Japan, “Becoming Friends with All the Children of the World,” 2004. Vijay Prashad August 4, 2022 The fragility of Europe’s energy supply has once again been on display in recent months. Gas shipments through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which runs from Russia to Germany, were reduced to 40 per cent of capacity […]