Tag: tragger
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Turkish Internet News Site Reports U.S. Senators’ Intention To Link F-16 Sale to Ankara to Approval of Finland’s, Sweden’s NATO Accession Applications; February 3, 2023
Turkish internet news site Medyascope‘s Foreign News Service on February 3, 2023, issued the following report based on a partial translation of a letter Congress sent to U.S. President Joe Biden requesting that he, along with U.S. Ambassador to Ankara Jeff Flake, urge Türkiye to act quickly regarding Ankara’s decision to approve Sweden’s and Finland’s…
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Book Review: Autopsy of an Empire – The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Jack Matlock, Jr.
Jack Matlock served as U.S. Ambassador to Russia during the final years of the Reagan administration and the first year of the Bush I administration, from 1987 to 1991. During that time, according to his account, despite the many duties falling to him to perform in Moscow, he managed to visit each of the union…
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Russian President Putin Delivers New Year’s Eve War-Time Footing Message to Country, December 31, 2022
Couched in a message that at times teetered on the edge of extreme sentamentality and at other times wreaked of Soviet-era communist jargon and its rationalizing propagandistic worldview, Putin was profuse in expressing his gratitude to all those who have been ‘participants’ in fighting [to reclaim] Russia’s historic lands, while protecting the lives of their…
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Israel Sends Highly Credentialed Diplomat To Germany as Ambassador, late December 2022
The German daily newspaper, Tagesspiegel, on December 21, 2022, posted to its internet site an interview it had conducted with Israel’s new ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor. The interview addresses Israel’s relations not only with Germany but rather, by his replies to the questions, Prosor, as one of the country’s most experienced diplomats, provides a…
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Turkish-German MP Tweets Condolences in Response to Attack at Kurdish Cultural Center in Paris, December 23, 2022
Cem Özdemir, a member of the Alliance 90/Greens who represents the city of Stuttgart in the German Bundestag, and who holds the position of Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, responded via a tweet on December 23, 2022, to a shooting that day at the Kurdish Cultural Center in Paris, France. As a first-generation German…
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Dutch Court Finds Pro-Russian Separatists Guilty in Downing of MH17, Gives Life Sentences; Free Europe Bulgarian Service, mid-November 2022
What was so compelling about this article was not so much that justice is finally being served, although its proverbial long arm cannot extend so far as to actualize it by plucking the guilty parties out of their haven in Russia, or that a verdict has been forthcoming after so many intervening years; rather, that…
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Christians Experiencing Discrimination in Iraq; In ISIS-Controlled Northwestern Syria Suffering Persecution, early-December 2022
Turkish internet Christian news site, Sat7, on December 9, 2022, disseminated for its Turkish readership two articles that had originally been published in English. The article concerning Iraqi Christians was based on a FIDES wire that was picked up by several internet sites. One can be found at: https://www.worthynews.com/80474-iraq-christian-families-are-leaving-in-droves . The article on the persecution…
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Book Review: Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War, by Ken Adelman
Ken Adelman’s masterpiece, running to a quite manageable 375 pages including notes and a bibliography, uses the October 1986 meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev as the springboard to prove his thesis that it was indeed the catalyst for…
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In the Power of Murky Intuition, Autocratic Russia is Losing the Instinct for Self-Preservation
Russian intellectual and social philosopher Aleksandr Sergeyevich Tsipko on June 6, 2022, wrote the following opinion piece on the Newspaper Ideas and People internet site. By utilizing the Platonic philosophy of the partıcular vs the universal, Tsipko speaks truth to power, excoriating Russia’s return to an autocratic system of government which in turn led to…
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Being Infatuated with Anti-Western Ideas Has Become a Dangerous Path for Russia
The following is an opinion piece published on the Moscow Komsomolets news site written by Aleksandr Tsipko, who, as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1972, has enjoyed a long career as a social philosopher and political scientist. He was a proponent of Gorbachev’s perestroika strategy and is the director of the…
The Dragon is Slain 