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paigedeleeuw

U.S. Should Arm Ukraine to Help Check Russian Aggression - US News - 0 views

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  • Despite President Barack Obama’s repeated assurances that Russia faces political isolation and an “economy in tatters,” Russia is still a very real threat to Ukraine – and potentially to other former Soviet satellites as well.
  • More than 5,400 people have been killed in the Ukraine conflict since Russian-backed rebels seized parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions last April.
  • Western pressure has not been able to successfully end the conflict.
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  • Russia’s military budget has still increased this year by 33 percent to 3.3 trillion rubles or more than $50 billion.
  • Moreover, some European politicians appear to be having second thoughts about maintaining sanctions against Russia.
  • current diplomacy is clearly failing.
  • On Feb. 12, Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko announced a peace deal after 17 hours of talks, yet these negotiations have not done much to end the conflict.
  • Russia has flouted the so-called Minsk II ceasefire, and Russian weaponry and soldiers continue to flow into Ukraine, with serious detrimental effects.
  • the need for the U.S. and its diplomatic partners to come up with a concerted strategy to push back against Russian imperialism. Increasing Ukraine’s military capabilities is a step in this direction.
  • Providing Ukraine with the weapons and training it needs in order to defend itself as part of a coordinated strategy to strengthen the Ukrainian state can contribute to stability by increasing the potential costs to Russia for its aggression.
  • supporting Ukraine will also ensure that Russia does not use its gains there as a precedent for invading other former-Soviet countries and re-establishing control.
  • Congress passed new legislation authorizing the provision of arms to the Ukrainian military.
  • Pentagon officials have confirmed that U.S. troops will deploy to Ukraine this spring to train four companies of the Ukrainian National Guard.
  • military aid to Ukraine will escalate tensions between the U.S. and Russia and prompt retaliation from Moscow.
  • the provision of weapons and training to Ukraine’s troops may strengthen Putin’s cry for a united nationalistic front against the West.
  • But Russia’s government, and its proxies in eastern Ukraine, has demonstrated that it will not be easily satisfied.
  • If it is not stopped there, it is liable to set its sights on still more territory that it hopes to acquire.
  • For Moscow, Ukraine represents the first step in a larger imperial project.
  • The U.S. should follow through with Congress’ determination to arm Ukraine and thereby help Kiev to secure its borders – and its sovereignty.
natedurrett

Violence as a Public Health Issue - 2 views

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violence public health issue

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  • Our citizens want to live in peace, but each year many thousands of them become the victims of violence.
  • Identifying violence as a public health issue is a relatively new idea.
  • To be sure, those agents of public safety and justice have served us well. But when we ask them to concentrate more on the prevention of violence and to provide additional services for victims, we may begin to burden the criminal justice system beyond reason.
  • natedurrett on 11 Oct 14
     
    The nation's rate of abuse and violence rises each day while the nation itself generally wants peace.
  • kyrranielson on 11 Oct 14
     
    Great article, it's a little unclear what it's connection with civil rights. But it is true there is so much violence to people that can't defend themselves, and we need to protect those people.
kyrranielson

Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research - 1 views

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  • kyrranielson on 03 Mar 15
     
    Posted by Andrew Walker. It's a pretty simple question, really. Is the United Nations effective in the modern world? At the time of its inception, the UN was deemed as an absolutely necessary piece of maintaining world peace, and for the most part, you could argue that its existence was a pivotal piece of keeping the Cold War cold.
  • kyrranielson on 03 Mar 15
     
    I believe that the UN is absolutely a necessary tool in keeping world peace. Although ratings of its effectiveness have gone down significantly in the U.S. More than 50% of Americans believe that the UN is necessary. Although conflicts continually arise between nations, it is important to have an organization to regulate nations decisions throughout the world.
  • Joanne Kim on 03 Mar 15
     
    I agree with Kyrra and strongly believe that UN is crucial in making world peace. Although UN does not have the strongest army in the world and does not have the ultimate power to stop a war, the power it has to influence different nations and aid them in their relationships is essential.
bennordpaskin

Janine Davidson | Obama's Last National Security Strategy | Foreign Affairs - 2 views

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obama national security strategy Peace Document

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  • The president’s second National Security Strategy articulates a belief in a peaceful, rules-based international order; it also reaffirms the fact that none of this can happen without the leadership of the United States. For scholars seeking to trace broader themes in the president’s foreign policy strategy, the document promises good historical value. But to expect it to provide definitive answers to every crisis that now simmers across the globe—that’s asking a bit much of any NSS.
  • Recent announcements regarding military assistance to Ukraine, an authorization to use military force against ISIS, and hint
  • s of a shift in the drawdown in Afghanistan may signal a recognition of these mismatches. With two years left in the White House, perhaps this document will mark a few course corrections.
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  • It is a thankless job to issue a new National Security Strategy, as U.S. President Barack Obama did this month. Its creation is a churn of dozens of drafts circulated among scores of hapless staffers, each of whom is tasked with name checking his or her very specific issue. There’s little room for prioritization or bold new ideas; any artful turns of phrase are quickly ground into merciless governmentese.
  • This strategy is the second and last of Obama’s presidency, and it rightly describes a world beset by challenges and in dire need of American leadership (“lead,” “leader,” and “leadership” appear 94 times in the context of the United States’ role in the world).
  • It’s a thoughtful approach that strives to cast an eye beyond the geopolitical brushfires of the day and into planning years or even decades into the future.
  • The United States can’t identify a problem, shock-and-awe its way to victory, and expect to come home with all the loose ends neatly tied up. The world simply doesn’t work that way.
  • On the other hand, the terrible consequences of the United States’ 2003 cowboy-hooting, gunslinging invasion of Iraq illustrate precisely the reason a policy of strategic patience must exist today.
  • decisive action against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) as it gathered momentum in early June 2014.
  • bennordpaskin on 03 Mar 15
     
    Article that describes Obama's second National Security Strategy; the document expresses a desire for rule based international order and the necessity for the leadership of the United States.
  • campbellcondon on 03 Mar 15
     
    Obama's National Security Strategy has a higher chance of succeeding a little bit better due to this stricter rules on international order.
Joanne Kim

NATO's goal is to take Russia down - English pravda.ru - 1 views

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  • The issue at hand is the creeping cloud of war being brought against Russia by the typical neo-liberal mechanism of incrementalization via the agency of NATO.
  • NATO's "wet dream" is and always has been to "finish" World War II, by taking down Russia.
  • NATO was set up as both a vehicle for maintaining American hegemony in Europe and as a means of doing an end-run around the requirement of consensus in the UN Security Council, thereby defeating the purpose of the United Nations in eliminating wars of choice and aggression.
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  • NATO must be disbanded and its activities must cease and not be carried on through other channels. Encirclement of Russia must cease.
  • Then finally, with US Exceptionalism, NATO and nuclear arms out of the way, we can make progress towards world peace
  • Joanne Kim on 03 Mar 15
     
    This article shows an opinion about NATO as an agency that exists to prove the supremacy of the USA. It talks about NATO's goal that has been continued since WW2.
jennacrosby

Announcing the Surrender of Japan (September 1, 1945)-Miller Center - 0 views

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  • jennacrosby on 30 Oct 15
     
    I could not find a video. This is a Transcript of President Harry S. Truman's opening speech before a conference in San Francisco announcing the surrender of japan, and focusing on Truman's acceptance of a peace treaty that officially ended America's Occupation in Japan after WWII. It was a pivotal moment in American Broadcasting . It was the first transcontinental television broadcast. Meaning it was the first time a television program was broadcast from coast to coast.
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