Speigel Online calls for the EU to help Ukraine in its row over gas supplies from Russia, which is now starting affect other countries in Europe.
This might have been possible if the Germans weren’t so busy at undermining the EU’s efforts at a joint energy approach to Russia.
Well, at least this is a subject about which the current United States administration should know something.
God knows, they’ve clearly demonstrated their total ignorance on the Middle East and the ‘Muslim world’.
Best. Quote. Ever.
“This is not 1968, and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can invade its neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it,” [Sec of State Rice] said. “Things have changed.” [NYT]
Russia wants “regime change” in Georgia, says US.
Steve LeVine puts this conflict into context — it is all part of the ongoing ‘pipeline wars’.
The EU’s security problems in the face of a confident and assertive Russia are highlighted by The Economist.
The UN concluded in a report Monday that a Russian fighter jet shot down an unmanned Georgian spy plane last month.
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