“How can we convince Russians they're wrong in thinking we want to break up Russia?”

Some tentative answers to this urgent question

 

What are the risks of America breaking up?

What are the risks of Russia breaking up?

Outline for a chat on this between friends in the two countries

 

 The myth of the Nuland-organized coup in Ukraine

How Putin’s American choir has lied for years, and how its little lie has grown into a big prop for Russia’s return to war

by Ira Straus

 Ukraine must be allowed to strike back against targets inside Russia

Reduce global warming, or reduce its 5^th differential?

A differential equations model, to compare the delays and warming consequences of emissions-cutting versus sunlight-blocking

What emergence theory can tell us about how we might save ourselves from global warming in our time - and entropy at the end of time.

 From the Atlantic Council's "New Atlanticist" :

The war in Ukraine is an opportunity to upgrade the transatlantic architecture. Here’s how.

By Ira Straus Atlantic leaders should treat the current conflict—just as they did the Cold War—as an opportunity to improve institutional capabilities.

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NATO, Neutralizing the Threat of a Baltic Conflagration

by Andreas B. Olsson
Board Member, Center for War-Peace Studies

A paper on why Swedish and Finnish membership in NATO will stabilize the dormant but dangerous geo-political situation around the Baltic Sea.

READ: NATO, Neutralizing the Threat of a Baltic Conflagration

CFR Report calls for Urgency in Solar Geoengineering Research and Preparations

A special report from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) calls on the U.S. to take major, urgent measures to increase research on solar geoengineering and sunlight reflection as a part of the answer to global warming.

Prepared by Stewart Patrick and released at the end of April 2022, the CFR report evaluates the existing approaches of emissions reductions and carbon removal. It finds them insufficient for preventing enormous warming risks, and likely to remain greatly insufficient for scientific and practical reasons that would be objectively very difficult to overcome. It concludes that sunlight reflection will probably be an indispensable component in preventing dangerous levels of global warming, and that research and preparations for this need to be greatly accelerated.

Awareness is growing of the need to proceed on this. In 2021 the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued a similar report, recommending to the U.S. government to invest in upgrading solar geoengineering research.

The CFR report recommends both greatly accelerated research and testing, and diplomatic and international governance preparations for carrying out sunlight reflection with global support and coordination. 

"This Council Special Report builds a compelling case... It is sad that such a report is necessary, but it will be even sadder still if we do not make exploring the potential of sunlight reflection an urgent priority.”

             -- CFR President Richard Haass

 “Sunlight reflection … could—in light of current warming trends and risk projections—make what is likely to be a lengthy transition to a decarbonized world tolerable. It is incumbent on countries to assess the feasibility and wisdom of pursuing this option and the institutions required to govern its potential deployment…. Given the stakes, the U.S. government is, at present, severely underinvesting in areas of science relevant to sunlight reflection.… It would be vastly preferable for the world to make progress on the science of sunlight reflection and to discuss its national and international governance openly today, so that policymakers are prepared to make informed decisions on its potential deployment tomorrow, rather than being forced to act out of ignorance on the fly when all other options have failed.”

                 -- “Reflecting Sunlight to Reduce Climate Risk: Priorities for Research and International Cooperation”, Council Special Report No. 93, April 2022. https://cdn.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/Patrick-CSR93-web.pdf

 

For the Center for War/Peace Studies (CWPS) initiative to upgrade work and awareness on sunlight reflection, see https://www.warpeacestudies.org/about-3

 

 

Zelensky calls for emergency global union to provide real security, a veto-free UN

 Zelensky called today for an emergency global union to provide real security, by abolishing the veto in the UN Security Council. 

What he is calling for is the central purpose of CW/PS. We are doing all we can to support his call for action here and now, in time to save the UN's purpose and Ukraine with it.

Here is his address to the Security Council:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?519301-1/ukraine-president-addresses-un-security-council&live&vod

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