Tuesday, February 24, 2015

William R. Polk — Ukraine War: A Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis

Guided by an aggressive neocon “regime change” strategy, the United States has stumbled into a potential military confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, a dangerous predicament that could become a Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse, as ex-U.S. diplomat William R. Polk explains.
Not just me getting concerned with the direction this is going.

Consortium News
Ukraine War: A Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis
William R. Polk
William R. Polk is a veteran foreign policy consultant, author and professor who taught Middle Eastern studies at Harvard. President John F. Kennedy appointed Polk to the State Department’s Policy Planning Council where he served during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1 comment:

Critical Tinkerer said...

This is much better explanation of intents of powers. If you want explanation of why Russia does not really help Novorussia with army and all might of Russia but gives only a suficcient help to rebels. And also if you want to predict how it is going forward then this is the best explanation of the situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmi75q3iRM