Tag Archives: Vladimir Putin

Putin-Netanyhau meeting recommends coordination to assure ‘deconfliction’

Posted on September 28, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

DEFENSE NEWS Russian Bear Supplants American Eagle in Syria, Beyond by Barbara Opall-Rome September 27, 2015 American failure to militate against a Syrian regime deploying chemical weapons, barrel bombs and creating a deluge of refugees has all but paved the way … Continue reading →

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Russia aggressively enters the Mid East equation, but where is this headed? Three perspectives

Posted on September 27, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL Moscow enters the Syrian fray, but to what end? by Avi Issacharoff September 27, 2015 …Russia’s willingness to jump into the Middle Eastern fray is a result of America’s weakness across the region. The war against Islamic State … Continue reading →

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#IranDeal repercussions

Posted on September 26, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

WEEKLY STANDARD What Next? By Dr. Michael Makovsky September 25, 2015 …On Monday, September 21, Iran self-inspected a key suspect nuclear weapons site without international inspectors present. “This deal is not built on trust,” President Obama had told us. “It … 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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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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The Iran Deal’s Fatal Flaw

Posted on April 6, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

POLITICO by Charles Duelfler April 2, 2015 Nothing can work without tough inspections and enforcement. And for that we must rely on…Vladimir Putin. We don’t yet know all the details of the nuclear agreement that Iran, the United States and … Continue reading →

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What France Really Thinks of U.S. Iran Policy

Posted on March 18, 2015 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet March 17, 2015 French leaders think the U.S. president is dangerously naïve on Iran’s ambitions, and that his notion of making Iran an “objective ally” in the war against ISIS, or even a partner, together with … Continue reading →

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War Clouds on the Horizon?

Posted on December 8, 2014 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW by Victor Davis Hanson December 4, 2014 A large war is looming absent preventive American vigilance. The world is changing and becoming even more dangerous — in a way we’ve seen before. In the decade before World War … Continue reading →

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