Tag: Russian agression

Six Reasons Why Putin has Stepped Up Russian Aggression in Ukraine Now

January 21, 2015

Staunton, January 21 – Since Moscow’s Anschluss of Crimea almost a year ago, many in Russia, Ukraine and the West have asked not only why Vladimir Putin has chosen the path of aggression, but also why he has chosen it now rather than at some other time and what his timing says about his broader […]

What Putin Intends to Provoke in the Baltic Countries

September 23, 2014

Staunton, September 23 – Just as the purpose of terror is to terrorize, the purpose of provocation is to provoke – and if the targets of a provocation understand what the one engaging in it wants to provoke, they will be in a much better position not only to prepare for it but also to […]