{"id":128,"date":"2014-12-09T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T12:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/?p=128"},"modified":"2018-01-24T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T15:05:37","slug":"russias-march-into-a-corner-of-its-own-chosing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/russias-march-into-a-corner-of-its-own-chosing\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s March into a Corner of its own chosing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.novayagazeta.ru\/storage\/c\/2014\/12\/05\/1417739801_361034_50.png\" alt=\"\" \/>Die Weltvernichtungsmachine aus Dr. Strangelove ist zur\u00fcck<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aussichten auf einen m\u00f6glichen Showdown mit einem Regime, das sich selbst um seines Erhaltes willen (nicht um den Erhalt des Staates oder des Landes willen) in eine Ecke man\u00f6vriert 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\u0444\u0443\u043d\u0434\u0430\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0435 \u0438 \u0434\u0435\u0440\u0436\u0438\u0442\u0441\u044f, \u0438 \u044d\u0442\u043e\u0442 \u0444\u0443\u043d\u0434\u0430\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0442 \u043d\u0430\u0434\u043e \u0438\u043c\u0435\u0442\u044c \u0432 \u0432\u0438\u0434\u0443.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Segei Medvedev)<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/russland.boellblog.org\/2014\/12\/07\/aufruf-niemand-will-krieg-will-wirklich-niemand-krieg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kommentar zum Aufruf &#8220;Niemand will Krieg&#8221; \u2013 will wirklich niemand Krieg?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".vl.1:3:1:$comment664189017032479_664361703681877:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".vl.1:3:1:$comment664189017032479_664361703681877:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".vl.1:3:1:$comment664189017032479_664361703681877:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".vl.1:3:1:$comment664189017032479_664361703681877:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0\">Politisch dumme und moralisch falsche \u00c4quidistanz. Gef\u00fchlsduselige &#8220;alle sind gleich gut oder gleich schlecht&#8221; Aussagen sind kein politisches, sondern allenfalls ein p\u00e4dagogisches Statement. Man sollte Putins Aussagen in strategischen Dingen einfach er<\/span><\/span><span data-reactid=\".vl.1:3:1:$comment664189017032479_664361703681877:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".vl.1:3:1:$comment664189017032479_664361703681877:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".vl.1:3:1:$comment664189017032479_664361703681877:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0\">nst nehmen (in taktischen Dingen bel\u00fcgt er wohl auch andere Staatschefs dass sich die Balken biegen): Er will das [autorit\u00e4re, kleptokratische und institutionell nicht mehr verankerte] Regime der gelenkten Demokratie und damit seine Macht mit allen Mitteln erhalten und sieht jede politische Opposition bzw. gesellschaftlichen Protest dagegen als existenzielle, vom Westen gesteuerte Gefahr. Und er hat sich entschieden, die post-sowjetische Friedensordnung in Europa auf der Grundlage einer (einigerma\u00dfen pl\u00f6tzlich) ethnisch bzw. v\u00f6lkisch definierten Interessenspolitik notfalls auch mit Gewalt herauszufordern (die Interessen von Russen, russisch-sprachigen Menschen, Volksrussen, Pass-Russen, Landsleuten im Ausland verteidigen). Beides sagt er und beides macht er. In der Ukraine hat Russland mit brutalen und von den Protagonisten selbst gut dokumentierten Mitteln einen Krieg erzwungen. Die EU und die NATO haben dort keine Soldaten oder Milizen im Einsatz. Die \u00c4quidistanz ist falsch &#8211; entweder ist sie dumm (das m\u00f6chte man sicherlich nicht allen Unterzeichnern unterstellen), sie ist opportunistisch (gilt sicherlich f\u00fcr Lobbyisten wie Schr\u00f6der) oder sie verkennt die Absichten, F\u00e4higkeiten und Schw\u00e4chen des heutigen Russlands (gilt wohl f\u00fcr das politische Urgestein der bipolaren Welt, das Russland immer noch f\u00fcr einen seri\u00f6sen, institutionell gefestigten Staat h\u00e4lt). Im Hinblick auf und Umgang mit den wirklich wichtigen Partnern, den osteurop\u00e4ischen Staaten und Gesellschaften der Europ\u00e4ischen Union und den Teilgesellschaften, die f\u00fcr die Zukunft eine europ\u00e4ische Integration anstreben, ist diese uns\u00e4glich deutsche Sonderposition (alle sind gleich, wir m\u00fcssen zu allen lieb sein) \u00fcberheblich und respektlos. Die Entscheidung f\u00fcr eine Integration in Westliche Institutionen ist eine politische und sie ist nat\u00fcrlich nicht alternativenlos. Die Alternative, die Russland anbieten kann, ist allerdings keine Systemalternative (und damit auch meilenweit vom sowjetischen Sozialismus entfernt) sondern eine wenig nachhaltige Mischung aus Zwang und informellen Anreizen f\u00fcr absurd korrupte Eliten.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kommentar zum offenen Brief \/ Aufruf &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagesspiegel.de\/politik\/aufruf-fuer-eine-andere-russland-politik-nicht-in-unserem-namen\/11080534.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicht in unserem Namen<\/a>&#8220;<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Krieg ist zun\u00e4chst einmal, wenn ein Staat seine Interessen gegen einen anderen Staat mit milit\u00e4rischen Mitteln gewaltsam vertritt. Das tut Russland seit einem Jahr in der Ukraine. Das tut die EU und die NATO Russland gegen\u00fcber oder den Nachfolgerepubliken der Sowjetunion gegen\u00fcber nicht und droht auch nicht damit. Die Verfasser folgen der Kreml-Rhetorik wenn sie die Osterweiterung der EU und NATO erstens als aggressives proaktives Betreiben diffamieren und zweitens in einen T<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">opf werfen. Man muss schon geschichtsvergessen oder einfach anti-demokratisch und zynisch sein, wenn man den Gesellschaften, die unter sowjetischer Herrschaft gelebt haben, den Wunsch und das Recht absprechen m\u00f6chte, sich f\u00fcr die politischen Institutionen des Westens zu entscheiden. Russland hat au\u00dfer der Androhung von Gewalt und Chaos sowie der Unterst\u00fctzung von l\u00e4cherlich korrupten Regimen derzeit einfach recht wenig zu bieten. Die EU ist vor allem ein pull-Faktor und nur wenig Druckmittel. Gegen Krieg zu sein scheint immer l\u00f6blich; dann sollte man allerdings zun\u00e4chst einmal gegen den v\u00f6llig willk\u00fcrlich in der Ukraine von Russland erzwungenen Krieg sein. Der Westen hat in Europa auch Krieg gef\u00fchrt (um das Kosovo). Man kann daf\u00fcr oder dagegen gewesen sein (einige der Unterzeichner waren in verantwortlichen Positionen daf\u00fcr). Derzeit f\u00fchrt der Westen keinen Krieg in Europa.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-header\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30278606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How can the West solve its Ukraine problem?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The West simply does not have the means or the will to integrate Ukraine into the West while isolating it from Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestown.org\/programs\/edm\/single\/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=43062&amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=756&amp;no_cache=1#.VIbGWslmx8H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Battalions of Chechens Now Fighting the Russians in Ukraine<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Very interesting and well-documented piece.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.mobi\/a\/caucasus-report-chechen-insurgents-grozny-gun-battle\/26724495.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chechen Insurgents Attack Grozny<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/rebellen-greifen-grosny-an\/a-18109208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.dw.de\/rebellen-greifen-grosny-an\/a-18109208<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".wp.1:3:1:$comment662350567216324_662418543876193:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".wp.1:3:1:$comment662350567216324_662418543876193:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".wp.1:3:1:$comment662350567216324_662418543876193:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".wp.1:3:1:$comment662350567216324_662418543876193:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0\">Wenn Liz Fuellers Report halbwegs richtig die Dimension dieses Angriffes einsch\u00e4tzt hei\u00dft das, dass die islamistische Aufstandsbewegung, die von Tschetschenien ausgegagangen war, zur\u00fcck ist. Tschetschenen spielen als Gewaltprofie<\/span><\/span><span data-reactid=\".wp.1:3:1:$comment662350567216324_662418543876193:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".wp.1:3:1:$comment662350567216324_662418543876193:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".wp.1:3:1:$comment662350567216324_662418543876193:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0\">s in Nordafghanistan und angeblich auch in Syrien eine Rolle (keine soziale Einbettung, wenig Skrupel, gute Ausbildung an der Waffe, zwei Jahrzehnte Verrohung in zwei \u00e4u\u00dferst brutal gef\u00fchrten Kriegen gegen die tschetschenische Bev\u00f6lkerung und eine simple, wenig differenzierte islamistische Ideologie.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-full__title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tvrain.ru\/articles\/rodstvennik_vraga_naroda_kak_v_chechne_nakazhut_semi_boevikov-379153\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0420\u043e\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0438\u043a \u0432\u0440\u0430\u0433\u0430 \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u041a\u0430\u043a \u0432 \u0427\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0435 \u043d\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0436\u0443\u0442 \u0441\u0435\u043c\u044c\u0438 \u0431\u043e\u0435\u0432\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">GosVendetta. Staatlich verordnete Sippenhaft in Tschetschenien.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"articletitle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/international\/europa\/und-tschetschenien-herr-putin-1.18426538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Und Tschetschenien, Herr Putin?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".g0.1:3:1:$comment654309444687103_654412758010105:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".g0.1:3:1:$comment654309444687103_654412758010105:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".g0.1:3:1:$comment654309444687103_654412758010105:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".g0.1:3:1:$comment654309444687103_654412758010105:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0\">Die Fragen sind zwar richtig aber es sieht so aus als h\u00e4tte die NZZ vergessen, wie solche Interviews vereinbart und gef\u00fchrt werden &#8211; das ist nicht Hard Talk der BBC sondern eine ziemlich au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnliche Chance auf ein vorabgesprochenes Interview mit e<\/span><\/span><span data-reactid=\".g0.1:3:1:$comment654309444687103_654412758010105:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".g0.1:3:1:$comment654309444687103_654412758010105:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".g0.1:3:1:$comment654309444687103_654412758010105:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0\">inem autorit\u00e4ren Herrscher in der Zwickm\u00fchle. R\u00fcckfragen waren offensichtlich nicht vereinbart. Die NZZ will wohl vom Flaggschiff der deutschsprachigen Zeitungen im Auslandsteil zum Klugschei\u00dferblatt mutieren.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-page-main-header article-header\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zavtra.ru\/content\/view\/kto-tyi-strelok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab\u041a\u0442\u043e \u0442\u044b, \u00ab\u0421\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043b\u043e\u043a\u00bb?\u00bb<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nu, gordis&#8217; i nesi otvetstennost&#8217; za etot uzhas ty ustroil slavyanskim bratyam.<br \/>\nHow to make friends and influence people&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"bigtitle node-title-274247\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.ru\/mneniya-column\/tsennosti\/274247-chem-dnr-pokhozha-na-islamskoe-gosudarstvo-i-kolumbiiskikh-partizan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0414\u043e\u043d\u0435\u0446\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0434\u0436\u0438\u0445\u0430\u0434: \u0447\u0435\u043c \u0414\u041d\u0420 \u043f\u043e\u0445\u043e\u0436\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u00ab\u0418\u0441\u043b\u0430\u043c\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u0433\u043e\u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u00bb<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"DetailedTitle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/2014\/11\/russia-crackdown-crimea-muslims-201411255372460761.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia&#8217;s crackdown on Crimea&#8217;s Muslims<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Crimea&#8217;s Moscow-appointed head, Sergei Aksyonov, called the report &#8220;propaganda&#8221; that lacked facts that could be checked and followed up. &#8220;In my opinion, human rights organisations should defend the rights of a majority,&#8221; he told the Gazeta.ru website. &#8220;But we, unfortunately, don&#8217;t see it.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"DetailedTitle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2014\/12\/disappearing-crimea-anti-russia-activists-201412110405525656.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disappearing Crimea&#8217;s anti-Russia activists<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30177725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Could the world return to the 1980s?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s always difficult to predict what President Putin will do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he knows what his close supporters want: they certainly wouldn&#8217;t like Russia to be humiliated, but they do want a settlement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So do most European countries. Does the US? Or does it want another triumph of the 1991 variety?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My feeling is that President Obama will decide that a rational settlement of the Ukraine problem is something he can genuinely achieve, and turn into part of his enduring legacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But suppose that, as I write this, one of those Russian pilots hurtling towards Nato air space miscalculates by a few millimetres?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/303505\/with-oil-prices-plunging-opec-and-russia-are-on-their-knees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">With oil prices plunging, OPEC and Russia are on their knees<\/a><\/h1>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-article-id=\"303505\" data-thread-id=\"130733\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">&#8220;For consuming nations, the prudent posture is to view this time of lower prices as a temporary window\u2014a period to last, say, through 2020 or 2022. And, wherever you are sitting, to pose the question\u2014strategically speaking, what do you want?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-article-id=\"303505\" data-thread-id=\"130734\" data-annotation-count=\"1\"><span class=\"anno-span\">If you are the West, would you like Iran to convincingly renounce the development of nuclear weapons? For Russian president Vladimir Putin to temper his adventurism? Then, speak quietly and unprovocatively, and keep pushing\u2014low prices will maintain the pressure and could eventually prove decisive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-article-id=\"303505\" data-thread-id=\"130735\" data-annotation-count=\"0\"><span class=\"anno-span\">If you are an oil-producing state, this is a wake-up call to diversify your economy away from oil.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2014\/dec\/18\/how-he-and-his-cronies-stole-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How He and His Cronies Stole Russia<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The political economy of Putins regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Instead of seeing Russian politics as an inchoate democratic system being pulled down by history, accidental autocrats, popular inertia, bureaucratic incompetence, or poor Western advice, I conclude that from the beginning Putin and his circle sought to create an authoritarian regime ruled by a close-knit cabal\u2026who used democracy for decoration rather than direction. &#8220;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-header\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30374615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian liberal TV channel forced to quit premises<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30118943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia&#8217;s cultural rift over Ukraine<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/feuilleton\/debatten\/juri-andruchowytsch-die-eu-enttaeuscht-die-ukraine-13273068.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wir reden \u00fcber Werte, ihr redet \u00fcber Preise<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Vor kurzem habe ich Fernsehbilder aus Spanien gesehen, wo die Bauern, erbost \u00fcber die Handelssanktionen der EU gegen Russland, derentwegen sie Probleme hatten, ihre Produkte zu verkaufen &#8211; vielleicht Orangen -, als Zeichen des Protestes die EU-Fahne verbrannten. In genau solche Fahnen h\u00fcllten unsere Menschen auf dem Majdan die Ermordeten, bevor sie die Leichen in den Sarg legten.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".xj.1:3:1:$comment655066604611387_655068387944542:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".xj.1:3:1:$comment655066604611387_655068387944542:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".xj.1:3:1:$comment655066604611387_655068387944542:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0\">&#8220;Wenn ich sage: \u201eBei uns herrscht Krieg\u201c, verbessern mich meine deutschen Freunde geduldig wie Erwachsene ein Kind: \u201eIhr durchlebt eine Krise.\u201c Obwohl es in Wirklichkeit nicht unsere Krise ist, sondern die Krise Russlands, seiner halbirren imperialen Ambitionen, die sich zum Gl\u00fcck in unserer Welt nicht mehr vollst\u00e4ndig verwirklichen lassen.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30107520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine crisis: Russia demands guarantees from Nato<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, 100% guarantees would mean Russian military bases in Ukraine (like in Armenia). After Russia itself scrapped the international treaty of 1994 guaranteeing Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity the Kremlin does not seem to believe in paper anymore. Besides, it was EU, not NATO membership for Ukraine that made the Kremlin act this time round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think NATO countries can live with this core demand of Russia &#8211; the real problem is, however, that many of those societies directly af<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">fected may really not be happy with what Russia has on offer for them: dysfunctional and corrupt governance, development in reverse and at times brutal domination. Western governments are unable to speak on behalf of or sign anything on behalf of those societies. I honestly think that this is a detail the Kremlin simply does not comprehend. &#8220;What people?<br \/>\nTo hell with the people!&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-asset-uri=\"\/news\/world-europe-30113821\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30113821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Putin&#8217;s chief spokesperson: &#8216;We have our red lines&#8217;<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".15z.1:3:1:$comment654760797975301_654835137967867:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".15z.1:3:1:$comment654760797975301_654835137967867:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".15z.1:3:1:$comment654760797975301_654835137967867:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$0:0\">At all costs &#8211; the regime must be protected against the people<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/christopher-walker-authoritarian-regimes-are-changing-how-the-world-defines-democracy\/2014\/06\/12\/d1328e3a-f0ee-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Walker: Authoritarian regimes are changing how the world defines democracy<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good point: &#8220;in an underappreciated twist, today\u2019s leading authoritarian regimes are turning \u201ccontainment\u201d on its head, using massive resources and coordinated political efforts to chip away at the rules-based institutions that have served as the glue for the post-Cold War liberal order, while checking the reform ambitions of aspiring democracies and reshaping the way the world thinks about democracy.<br \/>\nCall it the \u201cdemocracy containment\u201d doctrine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An article some &#8220;useful idiots&#8221; in the West might want to consult before calling for accepting and legalising recent Russian actions in the &#8220;near abroad&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/politik\/ausland\/2014-11\/putin-russland-ukraine-interview-andreas-schockenhoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"title\">&#8220;Putin wird nerv\u00f6s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgianjournal.ge\/politics\/28724-how-nato-told-georgia-to-ignore-the-russian-military-threat-in-2007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How NATO told Georgia to ignore the Russian military threat in 2007 <\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good piece of analysis from a country that has been on the receiving end of Russian expansionism in the past:<br \/>\n\u201cIf you read the Russian security articles, concepts and documents and then read the speeches, it becomes evident that Russia has since 2000, at least, followed a clear set of goals in [its] foreign affairs and domestic policy. This in short is to restore Russia\u2019s greatness, restore \u2018historical justice\u2019 whatever that is, reestablish spheres of influence around Russia,<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> stop NATO expansion and rearrange the security architecture of Eurasia. Defacto Russia has pretty much achieved all these other goals. But it hasn\u2019t achieved its goal for NATO. Today, of course, NATO is more vital that it has been for a long time. Theoretically\u2026 The conclusion can only be that if Russia thinks that it can get away with it, it will test NATO. It will prove NATO doesn\u2019t work\u2014at least [Russia] would, if it could. So yes, the credible defense of NATO\u2014of all NATO members is very important for the organization\u2026 Particularly if Russia tries that kind of ambiguous invasion, false flags or no flags or \u2018green men,\u2019 against a NATO country and if NATO doesn\u2019t react then that would be or could be fatal for NATO.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30126207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Almost 1,000 dead since east Ukraine truce &#8211; UN<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Putin does not really appreciate that sustained and for the most part peaceful mass protest may in some way relate to the way countries are governed. What is frustrating is that so many people seem to buy this story of foreign driven and bought mass protest. As if the Maidan had nothing to do with the political regime it turned against.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Meanwhile, President Putin told a meeting in Moscow that the &#8220;wave of so-called colour revolutions&#8221; (popular uprisings this century in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan) had yielded &#8220;tragic consequences&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8216;For us this is a lesson and a warning,&#8221; he told the Russian Security Council. &#8220;We should do everything necessary so that nothing similar ever happens in Russia.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tvrain.ru\/articles\/aleksandr_borodaj_strelkov_pytalsja_stat_politicheskim_liderom_no_on_v_etom_nichego_ne_ponimaet_i_ochen_ploho_razbiraetsja_v_ljudjah-378007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab\u0421\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432 \u043f\u044b\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0441\u044f \u0441\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u043c \u043b\u0438\u0434\u0435\u0440\u043e\u043c, \u043d\u043e \u044d\u0442\u0430 \u0440\u043e\u043b\u044c \u0435\u043c\u0443 \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0445\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0442, \u043a\u0430\u043a \u043f\u0430\u0447\u043a\u0430 \u0431\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0440\u0438\u043d\u044b\u00bb. \u0411\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u043e\u0435 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0432\u044c\u044e \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0430 \u0411\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430\u044f<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The face and voice of Russia&#8217;s non-linear foreign policy in the near aborad. A mixture of Bulgarkov&#8217;s &#8220;Heart of a dog&#8221; and Sorokin&#8217;s &#8220;obrichniki&#8221;. The late soviet union was a serious state with a complex if at times brutish alternative to western democracies as well as non-socialist dictatorships, authoritarian regimes or failing states. If this is what Russia has on offer today to confront the west it will not last long.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ehorussia.com\/new\/node\/9832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<span class=\"art-postheadericon\">\u041d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0433\u0434\u0430 \u0437\u0430 \u0432\u0441\u0451 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0441\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u044f \u043d\u0430\u0448\u0430 \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0435 \u0431\u044b\u043b\u0430 \u0442\u0430\u043a \u0438\u0434\u0435\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e \u0433\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u043a \u0444\u0430\u0448\u0438\u0437\u043c\u0443<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ya do sikh por nadeyus, shto eto ne na dolgo.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/eine-richtungswahl-in-lettland\/a-17973275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eine Richtungswahl in Lettland<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eine echte Achillesferse von Demokratien in Vielv\u00f6lkerstaaten ist es, dass Parteien zu ethnischen Landsmannschaften werden k\u00f6nnen. Neben den unmittelbar gewaltsamen Interventionstechniken, die der Kreml in der Ukraine angepasst und weiterentwickelt hat, ist die Ethnisierung demokratischer Verfahren, die er in Nachbarl\u00e4ndern vorantreibt (nicht im eigenen Land, da ist Demokratie gemanaged oder zerst\u00f6rt und dort werden ethnische Organisationen jenseits der Folklore auch, wie im<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> Nordkaukasus, nur dann zugelassen, wenn sie staatlich kontrolliert sind), die eigentliche Gefahr f\u00fcr Osteuropa. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&#8220;Angesichts des Ukraine-Konflikts steckt &#8220;Harmonie&#8221; allerdings in einer Zwickm\u00fchle. Viele Letten schreckt ab, dass die Partei an der Partnerschaft mit der Kremlpartei Geeintes Russland festh\u00e4lt, im Parlament gegen eine Entschlie\u00dfung zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Ukraine stimmte und westliche Sanktionen gegen Russland kritisiert. Zugleich wenden sich auch traditionelle W\u00e4hler ab, da sich &#8220;Harmonie&#8221; anders als die radikale Russische Union Lettlands nicht klar auf die Seite Moskaus stellt. Eine Zwickm\u00fchle, wie gesagt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article_title buffer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-10-05\/putin-clans-said-gridlocked-over-arrest-as-sanctions-bite.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Putin Clans Gridlocked Over Arrest as Sanctions Bite<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Interesting political economy analysis of the &#8220;power vertical&#8221; under stress.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltinfo.ru\/2014\/10\/06\/Milonov-o-priznanii-Deparde-v-svyazyakh-s-muzhchinami-v-yunosti-Dukhovnyi-veter-Mordovii-izlechit-v-nem-etot-porok-453980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u041c\u0438\u043b\u043e\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u043e \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0437\u043d\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u0414\u0435\u043f\u0430\u0440\u0434\u044c\u0435 \u0432 \u0441\u0432\u044f\u0437\u044f\u0445 \u0441 \u043c\u0443\u0436\u0447\u0438\u043d\u0430\u043c\u0438 \u0432 \u044e\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438: \u0414\u0443\u0445\u043e\u0432\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0432\u0435\u0442\u0435\u0440 \u041c\u043e\u0440\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0438 \u0438\u0437\u043b\u0435\u0447\u0438\u0442 \u0432 \u043d\u0435\u043c \u044d\u0442\u043e\u0442 \u043f\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043a <\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Russia stays true to her symbols of male virtuousness. I wonder what Kadyrov has to add to this sad and absurd story.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/euromaidanpress.com\/2014\/10\/11\/wer-sind-sie-professor-haag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wer sind Sie, Professor Haag?<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/realspin\/2014\/10\/13\/why-ukraine-georgia-and-moldova-should-choose-the-eu-over-putins-eurasian-union-in-four-charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Ukraine, Georgia And Moldova Should Choose The EU Over Putin&#8217;s Eurasian Union, In Four\u00a0Charts<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Interesting charts. The pull factor of the Eurasian Union adresses, however, not the interests or opportunities of the wider societies involved but of slim politico-economic elites. Hence, those macro indicators may not be as relevant for decisions taken by the political elites of those countries. This is what the Kremlin is betting on, in addition to the many push factors they have at their disposal.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/feuilleton\/debatten\/die-ukrainische-schriftstellerin-oksana-sabuschko-13212446.html?printPagedArticle=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ein Horrorfilm, in dem die M\u00f6rder Clownsmasken tragen<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Ich f\u00fcrchte, dass diese Analyse weitgehend stimmt. Auch die Clownsmaske &#8211; hat Putin gerade wieder in Mailand bewiesen und seine M\u00e4nnerfreunde und &#8220;n\u00fctzlichen Idioten&#8221; von damals machen mit. Es ist einfach keine gute Idee, wenn Geheimdienste aufh\u00f6ren, dem Staat zu dienen und selbst Staat machen. Das ist auch f\u00fcr Russland ein v\u00f6llig neues Ph\u00e4nomen. Der Westen &#8211; nicht nur die NATO, die aber auch &#8211; wird sich auf Jahre auf diese&#8221;nicht-lineare&#8221; Kriegsf\u00fchrung mit den Mitteln der Geheimdienste einstellen m\u00fcssen. Das geht jetzt erst mal nicht mehr weg. Je erfolgreicher dieses Vorgehen f\u00fcr territoriale Kontrolle und Regimeerhalt taktisch ist um so mehr wird diese Methode, die ja von russischer Seite angek\u00fcndigt und einigerma\u00dfen transparent analysiert worden ist (<a href=\"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/with-the-weapons-of-the-weak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/\u2026\/with-the-weapons-of-the-w\u2026\/<\/a>) angewendet werden.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticleHeadlineH1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fr-online.de\/kultur\/andrej-kurkow-putin-ist-staerker-als-das-gewissen,1472786,28350700.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"ArticleTitle\">Putin ist st\u00e4rker als das Gewissen<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Wieder so ein wunderbares Kurkow-Zitat: &#8220;Ich vertraue meinen eigenen Ansichten und Zweifeln, aber am liebsten vertraue ich meinen Kindern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/article\/509438.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is Alaska Next on Russia&#8217;s List?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&#8220;For Rogozin, Mironov&#8217;s book illustrates that a single mistake in foreign policy &#8220;can produce an entire century of loss and defeat of a great power.&#8221; He concludes his short foreword with a call for the return of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An ironic part of the revanchist conspiracy theories that the Russian political elite is successfully nourishing these days is that few Russians would dispute that living under the cunning US yoke in places like Finland, Ger<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">many or France (or in the US itself) is more enjoyable than living under conditions of territories liberated by Russia (or in Russia itself). In this Russian perception that is older than the current regime empire and geopolitical influence are all about push rather than pull factors or choice. History is something that happens to the people, it is not influenced or even made by the people.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2014\/nov\/20\/wake-up-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wake Up, Europe<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&#8220;It is also high time for the European Union to take a critical look at itself. There must be something wrong with the EU if Putin\u2019s Russia can be so successful even in the short term. The bureaucracy of the EU no longer has a monopoly of power and it has little to be proud of. It should learn to be more united, flexible, and efficient. And Europeans themselves need to take a close look at the new Ukraine. That could help them recapture the original spirit that led to the creation of the European Union. The European Union would save itself by saving Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Weltvernichtungsmachine aus Dr. Strangelove ist zur\u00fcck Aussichten auf einen m\u00f6glichen Showdown mit einem Regime, das sich selbst um seines Erhaltes willen (nicht um den Erhalt des Staates oder des Landes willen) in eine Ecke man\u00f6vriert hat:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[4,31,23,7,9,11,12,30],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection-of-articles","category-political-commentary","tag-conflict","tag-democracy","tag-eu","tag-international-relations","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jkoehler.diskstation.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}