The European Union’s liberal, woke neocons have poked spokes into the wheels of US President Donald Trump’s earnest and energetic efforts to fashion a ceasefire in Ukraine and normalization with Russia and its especially woke-hated president, Vladimir Putin. The initial ‚success‘ could pave the way for further neocon successes, complicating Trump’s peace initiatives. For now, Europe’s small victoryu has the related ‚benefit‘ of propping up Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenskiy and his policies. However, time remains on Moscow’s side despite these developments, and only a highly unlikely major reconfiguration of the Putin regime holds out any prospect of the European gambit against Trump’s Ukraine policies can save Ukraine‘s army or its Maidan regime and sovereign statehood. …..
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Gordon M. Hahn, Ph.D., is an Expert Analyst at Corr Analytics, www.canalyt.com. Websites: Russian and Eurasian Politics, gordonhahn.com and gordonhahn.academia.edu
Dr. Hahn is the author of the new book: Russian Tselostnost’: Wholeness in Russian Thought, Culture, History, and Politics (Europe Books, 2022). He has authored five previous, well-received books: The Russian Dilemma: Security, Vigilance, and Relations with the West from Ivan III to Putin (McFarland, 2021); Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West, and the “New Cold War” (McFarland, 2018); The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond (McFarland, 2014), Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007), and Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000 (Transaction, 2002). He also has published numerous think tank reports, academic articles, analyses, and commentaries in both English and Russian language media.
Dr. Hahn taught at Boston, American, Stanford, San Jose State, and San Francisco State Universities and as a Fulbright Scholar at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia and was a senior associate and visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kennan Institute in Washington DC, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group.
yes. Europe can’t put troops into Ukraine because a) Russia won’t let it, and b) they don’t have the troops. So any suggestion that they can is very clearly a pure time-wasting tactic.
With any luck they hope that Steve Bannon’s prediction will come true and it will become Trump’s war too.