Tag: Russia

Stevenson’s army, February 22

– The White House has released a fact sheet on the Ukraine war, including embedded links to even more details.

– Politico has a good summary of new laws and policies to counter Chinese technology [relevant to week 7 exercise]

– Yahoo News says Russia plans to take over Belarus.

– Prigozhin accuses Russian military of treason.

– David Frum makes case for AMLO as an autocrat.

– WaPo columnist details GOP budget games.

– Dan Drezner skewers DeSantis foreign policy

– A footnote inspired me to read this article on how, except for US independence, the British won the war of 1775-83.

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Stevenson’s army, February 21

– NYT details Biden’s secret trip.

– Guardian suggests Swedish Koran burning was financed by Moscow

– Axios reports secret meetings between Israelis and Palestinians

Philippines moves closer to US

– Putin suspends participation in New START

– WaPo reports US military expansion in Pacific

– Atlantic writer criticizes “military first” approach there

– SAIS profs — Ed Joseph sees Ukraine-Kosovo link;  Eliot Cohen says Biden visit is “gut punch to Putin”

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Stevenson’s army, February 19 and 20

February 20:

He couldn’t stay away.

– US warns China about aid to Russia.

– FT notes lack of support for Ukraine in global south.

– US avoided UN fight over Israel/Palestine.

February 19:

– FT has two valuable articles. SAIS prof Mary Sarotte on Putin’s distortions of history and report on planned secret US talks with Taiwan [now exposed]

– Lots on Wagner group — from Politico, from WaPo

– CNAS has a new tracker on Russia developments

– AP poll finds reduced GOP support for Ukraine

– NYT notes new military competition in near space.

– WSJ said some DIA knew of UAPs in Trump admin, but didn’t raise alarms.

– Politico on Germany’s “shadow foreign minister”

– Eli Lake defends Iraq war

– Intercept has warnings for whistleblowers

– FWIW, revelations about Fox News.

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Stevenson’s army, February 16

– WSJ says Russia’s forces are depleted.

– Politico reports a private comment by Blinken calling Crimea a Russian red line.

– FT reports Latin American countries resist US calls for help for Ukraine.

– Steve Walt lists what Putin got right.

– Defense Priorities has a good collection of comments on Ukraine.

-FP has summary of the rise of China hawks.

-No surprise here: Politico says Chinese balloon is argument for increased defense spending.

CBO report on the debt ceiling.

-I agree with this op-ed falling for defense budget to be split into capital and operational expenses.

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Stevenson’s army, February 15

– Just came across an excellent report on US technological competitiveness from last November.

– DIA released info on Iranian drones.

– There’s a report that Putin now travels by armored train.

– ISW report has a lot of info on Prigozhin.

Eliot Cohen disparages comparisons to WW I & II.

– How much do news media people make? Look here.

Foreign Affairs has new articles by Prof Brands and Prof Szubin.

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Stevenson’s army, February 14

– NYT says Ukraine order for aid groups to leave Bakhmut may be prelude to its own withdrawal.

– WaPo says US has warned Ukraine of problems sustaining aid levels.

– Politico says US won’t send ATACMs because of US inventory shortages.

– Moldova says Russia planned coup.

– Ian Bremmer doubts US sabotaged Nordstream 2.

– Fred Kaplan explains new search for balloons.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I republish here, with occasional videos of my choice. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).

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