Tag: putin

The Flirtation Between Manila and Moscow is a Sign of the Times

By Dan Nexon

In Hegemonic Unravelling

On November 3, 2019

I’ve got a newish, short piece up at the website for Exit from Hegemony. As is my wont, I’m cross-posting it here. In The National Interest, Richard Javad Heydarian writes that: For the first time in its history, Manila is seeking Russian assistance to upgrade its defensive capabilities and, potentially, even develop its energy resources in the South China Sea. […]

Trump-Russia

The key is to assume the worst

By Dan Nexon

On January 12, 2019

Basically everyone that I know with national-security experience, or even academic knowledge, was deeply disturbed about the lack of documentation of Trump’s Helsinki meeting with Putin. It turn

General

Trumpology meets Kremlinology

By Dan Nexon

On November 28, 2016

Despite showing some questionable judgment about whom to cite, Paul Musgrave has a nice piece in the Washington Post on Russian propaganda and the US election. The whole thing does a good job of syn

Putin

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 18, 2014

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Although I am always skeptical of moment of journalists using moments of crisis to write of leaders, domestic or international. After all, oil is not going to stay down forever. Still, be real sad to see Putin suffer.

Robert Farley

An Open Letter

By Robert Farley

On December 11, 2011

Dear Dr. Lemieux, Please refrain from declaring my victory in the upcoming Presidential election “inevitable.” Yours truly, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

Dave Brockington , General

A Surprising Transfer of Power in Russia

By Dave Brockington

On September 24, 2011

isn’t happening. I, for one, am shocked.

Putin’s Still Got It…

By Robert Farley

In Uncategorized

On June 16, 2009

This is kind of old, but I still have to acknowledge the fabulous theater of it all: Moving quickly to stamp out growing unrest, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew to the small town of Pikalyovo on Thursday to demand that angry workers receive wage arrears and rebuke their delinquent employers. Putin told the owners of […]