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Russia’s war in Ukraine and war games in Belarus
09/21/2017 - 5:00pm
Austin Bay
RUSSIA: September 20, 2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personally expressed dismay at the collapse of the Soviet Union connects directly to two current events: Russia’s war of conquest in Ukraine and the Russian Army’s large-scale war games in western Russia and Belarus. By the way, the Russian military calls its war game enemy “The Western Coalition.” The...
Congo’s vicious Kasai War could reignite the Great Congo War
Austin Bay 09/14/2017 - 3:17pm
THE CONGO: September 13, 2017 In August 2016, small but violent conflict erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s south-central Kasai region. In the world beyond the Kasai region’s five provinces (Kasai, Kasai-Central, Kasai-Oriental, Sankuru and Lomami) the cause of the violent outburst was unclear. According to initial reports...
North Korea targets Japan — 1998 and 2017
Austin Bay 08/30/2017 - 9:04am
NORTH KOREA: August 30, 2017 On August 31, 1998, North Korea bluntly informed Japan that the next time the Korean War escalated to all-out combat, Tokyo would be a target. Pyongyang used a multi-stage Taepodong-1 intermediate range ballistic missile to deliver the diplomatic message as a military object lesson. The first stage of the rather...
Interring the Islamic State in Iraq
Austin Bay 08/23/2017 - 7:27am
ISLAMIC STATE: August 23, 2017 President Barack Obama’s 2011 decision to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq was not based on the political and security conditions within the country. Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign determined the withdrawal timetable. Obama intended to sell himself as a war-ender no matter the real world...
Practicing coercive diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
Austin Bay 08/16/2017 - 8:35am
NORTH KOREA: August 16, 2017 On August 11, the U.S. island territory’s Homeland Security Office of Civil Defense posted a website fact sheet entitled “In Case of Emergency ... Preparing for an Imminent Missile Threat” in response to North Korea’s threat to launch a volley of ballistic missiles in Guam’s direction....
Floating a diplomatic solution in the South China Sea
Austin Bay 08/10/2017 - 1:44pm
SOUTH CHINA SEA: August 9, 2017 Beijing’s slow but belligerent invasion of the South China Sea has created Cold War conditions in the sub-tropical zone. For diplomats, the question of the moment is this: Can we craft a political accommodation that can keep the peace while ensuring sovereign territorial rights? China’s claims in the...
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