Tag Archives: Ukraine

75 years after Babi Yar, Ukraine still awaits appropriate memorial to 50,000 murdered Jews

Posted on March 26, 2016 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL Why one of the Holocaust’s worst massacres is marked only by charred menorah by Cnaan Lipshiz March 26, 2016 …Since 2001, numerous Jewish groups and tycoons have attempted but failed to win municipal support to upgrade a … Continue reading →

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How President Obama turned over control of America’s Middle East policy to Vladimir Putin

Posted on December 1, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

MOSAIC Our Man in Moscow by Michael Doran December 1, 2015 …Obama’s headlong support for the Iran nuclear deal and his pursuit more generally of a concert system with Moscow and Tehran have encouraged the rise of a Russian-Iranian military … Continue reading →

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Pentagon confused about Russia’s military buildup in Syria

Posted on September 19, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN INTEREST Russia’s Third Circles by Adam Garfinkle September 17, 2015 ….Just as attacking a Baltic State [Ukraine] hoping to politically destroy NATO would be a high-risk undertaking, turning Syria into a free-fire zone in the hope of politically destroying … Continue reading →

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The secrets of Ukraine’s shameful ‘Holocaust of Bullets’

Posted on August 30, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY MAIL by Will Stewart August 24, 2015 ‘Blood oozed through the soil at grave sites. You could see the pits move, some of them were still alive’ Seventy years on from the end of the Second World War the … Continue reading →

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What six years of ‘reset’ have wrought

Posted on August 30, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON POST by Charles Krauthammer August 27, 2015 On September 5, 2014, two days after President Obama visited Estonia to symbolize America’s commitment to its security, Russian agents crossed into Estonia and kidnapped an Estonian security official. Last week, after … Continue reading →

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Fleeing their country’s civil war, Ukrainian Jews head for Israel

Posted on December 27, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON POST by Ruth Eglash December 25, 2014 Yulia, Kostiantyn and their daughter, Valerie, don’t look like a typical refugee family. All well dressed — even the Chihuahua, Micky, wearing a chic dog jacket — they might not seem out … Continue reading →

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George W. Bush’s Graceful Silence

Posted on December 25, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

BLOOMBERG by Cass R. Sunstein December 22, 2014 In the domain of foreign affairs, 2014 has brought heated national debates on an impressive range of subjects: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Syria, Ebola, immigration policy and, most recently, torture, North Korea and … Continue reading →

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US Solicitor General: Israel Has No Claim to Jerusalem, Just as Russia Has No Claim to Crimea

Posted on November 8, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON by Adam Kredo November 4, 2014 Lawyers for the Obama administration compared Israel’s control of Jerusalem to Russian claims over the Ukrainian territory of Crimea during oral arguments this week before the Supreme Court in a case … Continue reading →

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America’s neglected defense

Posted on September 8, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON POST by Robert Samuelson September 7, 2014 You might have thought that the lesson would be obvious. In the past year, we’ve had an elementary tutorial in the uses of raw military power: in Ukraine, where Russia manufactured a … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Curious Rage

Posted on September 2, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL by Bret Stephens September 1, 2014 Calm when it comes to Putin, ISIS and Hamas, but furious with Israel. Barack Obama “has become ‘enraged’ at the Israeli government, both for its actions and for its treatment of … Continue reading →

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