Our New Option in Post-Coup Russia

Lessons of the Coup Attempt: Putin shaken, West ill-prepared

 Gorbachev, the Tragic Hero of Federalism

                       By Ira Straus, in New World Federalist Papers

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https://www.wfm-igp.org/federalist-paper/gorbachev-the-tragic-hero-of-federalism/

How Russia talked itself into war

Ira Straus

This is the story of how a great country, Russia, piled lie upon lie in its mind, until it talked itself into invading Ukraine.

“How can we disabuse Russians of the notion that we want to break up their country?” 

What are the risks of America breaking apart? Russia breaking apart?

 The myth of the Nuland-organized coup in Ukraine

Putin’s American choir has lied for years about this. Its little lie has grown into a big prop for Russia’s return to war.

by Ira Straus

Sunlight-deflection and/or emissions-cutting: modeling their time-lags and warming consequences

 From the New Atlanticist, Atlantic Council -

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