Two days before the meeting with the military leaders, on Thursday, Russia’s ambassador to Washington informed that the Russian president has decided to “severely retaliate against the Ukrainian government for its armed attack against Russia and severely punish all those responsible for the attack.”
In connection with the news, the correspondent of the Hungarian Peace Community also reminded that, after the Ukrainian attack on Russia on August 6, Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin to “take seriously the requirement to decisively defeat the enemy”.
Hbl 07-2021Nästan 2 300 vinterförvaringsplatser för båtar kan försvinna de kommande åren i huvudstaden. - Det är stort sug på båtar just nu. – Den här efterfrågan är verkligen exceptionell, säger Jarkko Pajusalo, vd på Båtbranschens Centralförbund Finnboat.
– I Helsingfors finns det 15 000 båtar och 50-60 000 personer som åker båt. Det är ofattbart att man inte lyssnar på den här delen av befolkningen, säger Sakari Salonen, första vicekommodor i Finlands motorbåtsklubb.
February 2, 1998 National Press Club nuclear abolition, deterrence
Retired General Lee Butler was the first U.S. commander of U.S. nuclear forces to ever call for their abolition. He talked about his place in the U.S. strategic planning for nuclear war and then described his abhorrence of using nuclear weapons and the effects of such use. He felt that the U.S. should use its powerful place in the world to set the example for abolishing nuclear weapons. After his prepared remarks he took questions from the audience.
William Perry on Stanford Uni Blog 15.8.2015
"On my seventeenth birthday in October 1944, I drove to Pittsburgh, passed the exams for the Army Air Cadet program, and was sworn in, but months later the Air Cadet program was discontinued. After completing a few semesters of college, I enlisted in the Army Engineers. The army trained me in map-making and assigned me to the Army of Occupation of Japan, where I was sent to a base outside Tokyo for training."
"William J. Perry was the 19th Secretary of Defense for the United States from February 1994 to January 1997. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and as Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. He is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University and author of My Journey at the Nuclear Brink."
Foreword August 25, 2024 The Board of The Transnational Foundation in Sweden has decided to publish an easy-to-read, scholarly anthology that addresses
Strobe Talbott , 18 Jan. 2019: Whether he knows it or not, Trump is integral to Putin’s strategy to strengthen authoritarian regimes and undermine democracies around the world. This unprecedented aberration defiles what America stands for at home and abroad; it alienates and dispirits our allies; and—if it is allowed to persist—it will jeopardize our security.
Sakana AI's groundbreaking 'AI Scientist' system autonomously conducts end-to-end scientific research, challenging traditional scientific methods and raising questions about the future of discovery.
Rimbert och Wahl om BSW i LMD sept -24
"Från de ”vänsterpopulistiska” experiment som genomfördes efter 2015 har Wagenknecht å andra sidan behållit vägran att vifta med den röda flaggan. Partiet ”är i själva verket en del av vänsterns tradition, men vi kommunicerar inte detta verbalt eftersom det helt enkelt inte längre förstås”, förklarar hon. I dag beklagar jag djupt att vänstern har blivit ett veritabelt fiendebegrepp för många människor, eftersom de förknippar det med Robert Habeck eller Annalena Baerbock”, ekologiska ministrar i den nuvarande regeringen som enligt henne förkroppsligar den progressiva borgerligheten. BSW klär sin vänsterorientering i en diskurs som syftar till att vara folklig och samlande: ”Vi accepterar att ett samhälle behöver en gemensam kultur och gemensamma traditioner. En välfärdsstat kan t.ex. inte fungera utan en gemensam identitet och en känsla av tillhörighet."
Hélène Richard i LMD Sept 2018 Au sortir de la guerre froide, les Russes voyaient leur avenir dans une Europe réconciliée et dotée de mécanismes de sécurité communs. En portant le glaive de l'Alliance atlantique jusqu'à leur porte, les Occidentaux ont pris le risque d'une réaction nationaliste.
Artikel om "Runet" i LMD, augusti 2027. "Denna situation, som är unik i världen - även om man räknar med Kina - är en stor fördel för Moskva, vars position när det gäller webbstyrning har stärkts avsevärt sedan Edward Snowdens avslöjanden om avlyssning av den amerikanska säkerhetsmyndigheten NSA."
LA Times 16 Nov 1990: The man who fired shots during the Revolution Day parade on Red Square last week was attempting to assassinate Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Serhii Plokhy & M E Sarotte. Foreign Affairs. Volume 99, Issue 1, January/February 2020.
"The Budapest Memorandum initially seemed to represent a significant moment of shared triumph and unity between Washington and Moscow. As U.S. President Bill Clinton advised Yeltsin, they were jointly engaged in a worthy cause: “We have the first chance ever since the rise of the nation state to have the entire continent of Europe live in peace.” Clinton rightly emphasized that Ukraine was the “linchpin” [grundbulten] of that effort." Jfr Sarotte. Not an Inch, s 241
Una giornata []7.9.24 di riflessione nell’isola del “Manifesto” di Spinelli, organizzata dalla Cgil nazionale sotto il segno della storia, della democrazia e della pace.
Prenderanno la parola, tra gli altri, Filippo Ciavaglia (Area internazionale Cgil, e membro del Consiglio generale degli italiani all'estero), Francesco Sinopoli (presidente Fdv), Pier Virgilio Dastoli (presidente del Movimento Europeo), Gianluca Torelli (responsabile delle politiche giovanili Cgil), Giuseppe Massafra (segretario Cgil Latina e Frosinone), Simone Pampanelli (segretario Cgil Perugia) e Andrea Malpassi (Area internazionale Cgil).
The Associated Press reports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination required to actually aim their weapons and fire at Russian soldiers. #WorldBEYONDWar