ho would have thought that French President Emmanuel Macron and the Muslim minority living under pressure in France especially during his term, would breathe a sigh of relief at the same time, for the same reason, albeit for a temporary period! The war launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, on the grounds of the “demilitarizing and de-Nazification of Ukraine,” turned the political climate in France upside down.
ould Russian President Vladimir Putin be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine? What about Russian military commanders and ordinary Russian soldiers? On the other side, could Ukraine President Volodmyr Zelensky, Ukrainian commanders or ordinary Ukrainian soldiers be prosecuted?
These questions have taken on increased urgency as Russia’s military action in Ukraine promises to continue for an extended period of time.
n Switzerland, people filed a petition calling for the deportation of Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, Putin's alleged mistress and mother of four of his children, drawing 70,828 signatures as of Sunday, March 26, 2022.
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Márki-Zay criticized Orbán for serving Putin’s interests, and argued that Hungarians thought it was Putin and not Brussels that needed to be stopped for peace to prevail.
It is certain that the Russian move to downscale its military engagement in Ukraine is nothing more than a tactical step; however, even the declaration of such a gesture is a success for Turkey, given the level of humility it takes from an extremely proud man like Putin.
I am painfully aware that Myanmar people’s armed resistance against the genocidal military is not deemed support-worthy, unlike the Ukrainian resistance that is fighting the West’s proxy war against Putin’s Russia.
The FSB and the SVR are hierarchically linked to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, while the GRU is directly accountable to the Russian Armed Forces General Staff.
VIDEO: Russian Expansionism under Vladimir PutinThe Russia-Ukraine war and changing geopolitics between the West and Russia will be a serious test for the compartmentalization, crisis management, and damage-control strategy that have been successfully carried out in Turkish-Russian relations until now.
Read: Is There any Limit to Russian Expansion under Vladimir Putin?On the other hand, Colombia, the third most populated country in Latin America after Brazil and Mexico, is facing a serious possibility of electing a leftist president, who has a grassroots base, far from the country’s traditional ruling oligarchic elite.
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Increasing distrust in governments
Unfortunately, skepticism may not sufficiently illuminate the gravity of the situation because it neglects the central issues of intention and responsibility.
On the opposite side, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced before the Russian National Security Council on March 11 that Russia would also accept volunteers who want to fight against Ukraine.
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Will the United States protect Japan?
That may have made political sense for Japan and the region up till now, during the Pax Americana.
“For Putin, the invasion of Ukraine is a clarifying moment of who is a friend, and who is an enemy,” explained Randa Slim, the director of conflict resolution at the Middle East Institute, in an interview with Politics Today.
n February 24, in the morning, following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s public address to the nation, Russia launched its so-called special military operation, which has proven to be a full-scale invasion and war, never officially declared as such by Moscow.
invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the unlawful withdrawal of the United States from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, and Israel's bombing of Gaza, can be analyzed as decisive in shaping Putin's Ukraine policy.
The first concerns the possibility that Putin escalates the conflict even further and relies on overwhelming firepower to overrun Kyiv, enabling the establishment of a puppet state in control of central and eastern Ukraine.