Let lie the sleeping dogs-of-war

Jun 12 2014 Posted by
Gary Scarrabelotti

New Russia

New Russia — Old Khanate: Catherine the Great’s imperial legacy.

It’s a dangerous thing when old empires try to correct the follies of the past.

By Gary Scarrabelotti

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Posted in EU, International Relations, Russia, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Crimea, Krushchev, New Russia, Novorossiya, Stalin, Tatar Khanate

The great Ukraine blunder

May 27 2014 Posted by
Gary Scarrabelotti

Dementing Europe a dangerous friend.

By Gary Scarrabelotti

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Posted in EU, International Relations, Russia, Ukraine
Tagged Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Catherine Ashton, Greg Sheridan, Oleh Tyahnybok, Radoslaw Sikorski, Treaty of Pereyaslav, Vitali Klitschko, Yulia Timoshenko

War on the imperial periphery

Mar 30 2013 Posted by
Gary Scarrabelotti

The EU prophesies world economic doom if a single member should desert the euro zone.

By Gary Scarrabelotti^*

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Posted in EU, International Relations, Russia
Tagged Bail-out, Cyprus, euro, Euro zone, European Central Bank, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Vladimir Putin

The European Project is dead

Nov 16 2011 Posted by
Gary Scarrabelotti

“Europe’s supranational oligarchy of politicians and bureaucrats really wants the same thing that has fascinated Europe since 1789 and The Revolution …”

By Gary Scarrabelotti

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Posted in Economics, EU, History, International Relations, Politics
Tagged Bailout, Empire, euro, Europe, European Union, Greece, Jose Manuel Barroso, Nicolas Sarkozy, Reich, Single currency, Sovereignty