An Unenviable Situation:

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Daily reminder that more than half of the wealth of Russia's top 0.01% is held offshore... Shouldn't an effective sanctions policy start by seizing these assets? pic.twitter.com/aXRnxkhAGK
— Gabriel Zucman (@gabriel_zucman) February 21, 2022

Zucman et al: Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens?

[He deleted the tweet. When? The politics is messy. Putin's Oligarchs FT, March 11 ]

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Walt is good

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updated for comedy.

The Economist is published in London. Global capitalism, distributed information and all that.

Milanovic on Putin's speech.

He's obviously using a teleprompter. I sent the link to a friend, a native Russian speaker who'd watched it; he thought Milanovic's introduction was absurd. I hadn't watched it. Now I have.

Kennan in on NATO expansion, NYT Feb 5, 1997

"Should NATO Grow? A Dissent", NYRB, August 10, 1995

Dear Mr. Secretary:
We are a group of retired Foreign Service, State Department, and Department of Defense officers who served during the Cold War. We are concerned by the potential consequences of the administration’s policy of promising to extend NATO membership to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. In our view, this policy risks endangering the long-term viability of NATO, significantly exacerbating the instability that now exists in the zone that lies between Germany and Russia, and convincing most Russians that the United States and the West are attempting to isolate, encircle, and subordinate them, rather than integrating them into a new European system of collective security.

the essay referred to in the letter: "Losing Russia or Keeping NATO: Must We Choose?", Arms Control Today, June 1995

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Terrell J. Starr, then and now; at The Root, since 2017, and now the Atlantic Council, and all over your TV.

I will be on MSNBC's "American Voices" today at 6 p.m. ET, not 5 p.m. ET as I said on my last Spaces. This time difference got me confused. LOL. See y'all on MSNBC at 6 p.m.
— Terrell Jermaine Starr (@terrelljstarr) February 20, 2022

Right Sector identify themselves as followers of the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera

John McCain with Oleh Tyahnybok

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