’A whole appeasement psychology’: How America let Putin off the hook after Crimea

’A whole appeasement psychology’: How America let Putin off the hook after Crimea

[ad_1] Friends don’t let friends investigate? In public comments, Justice Department officials have stressed that a past lack of international cooperation was a major hurdle to pursuing many of the cases. Despite years of questionable Russian activity in many places, “executing on U.S. requests for search warrants, and subpoenas, and interviews, and other legal process…

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Here’s How Ukraine Could Retake Crimea

Here’s How Ukraine Could Retake Crimea

[ad_1] Such a view isn’t yet a consensus; western policymakers haven’t uniformly come out in full-throated support of Ukraine’s moves to reclaim the peninsula. Last week, Rep. Adam Smith, one of the top Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee, said there was a “consensus” that “Ukraine is not going to militarily retake Crimea.” And…

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Blinken: Crimea a ‘red line’ for Putin as Ukraine weighs plans to retake it

Blinken: Crimea a ‘red line’ for Putin as Ukraine weighs plans to retake it

[ad_1] According to four people with knowledge of Blinken’s response, he conveyed that the U.S. isn’t actively encouraging Ukraine to retake Crimea, but that the decision is Kyiv’s alone. The administration’s main focus is helping Ukraine advance where the fight is, mainly in the east. That assessment echoes comments from Pentagon officials in recent weeks,…

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Ukraine can’t retake Crimea soon, Pentagon tells lawmakers in classified briefing

Ukraine can’t retake Crimea soon, Pentagon tells lawmakers in classified briefing

[ad_1] The briefers included Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, director of operations on the Joint Staff. “We’re not going to comment on closed-door classified briefings nor will we talk about hypotheticals or speculate on potential future operations,” Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said. “In…

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