Gentleman & GangsterShort video.
George Beebe director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute explains:
Why Putin needs a deal despite his battlefield advantage
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bs2> .. the Bush administration’s expectations for the war proved too optimistic.. #OperationIraqiFreedom removed an important counterbalance to #Iranian power and plunged the region into decades of instability, the ill effects of which are continuing to resonate for the United States, Europe, and the world.
> In our outrage over Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.. few are pausing to ponder the question of how this war ends.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/04/29/how-will-the-war-in-ukraine-end/
#GeorgeBeebe #Ukraine #RussianInvasion
> In our outrage over Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.. few are pausing to ponder the question of how this war ends.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/04/29/how-will-the-war-in-ukraine-end/
#GeorgeBeebe #Ukraine #RussianInvasion
> .. #budgets, of course, are reflections of a government’s priorities. You can’t do everything.. so you have to make choices about what’s more important.. #PresidentBiden has asked for $33 billion more for mainly military aid.. to Ukraine. Contrast that with the $22 billion asked for for all of the #USA dealing with #COVID.. rejected by the #Republicans and some Democrats, far less than the $33 billion..
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/3/russia_us_escalate_likelihood_direct_clash
#GeorgeBeebe #DN! #Ukraine #Biden #BudgetPriorities
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/3/russia_us_escalate_likelihood_direct_clash
#GeorgeBeebe #DN! #Ukraine #Biden #BudgetPriorities
“A Very Dangerous Moment”: Russian & U.S. Escalation Raises Risk of Direct Military Clash in Ukraine
As President Biden seeks $33 billion more for Ukraine, we look at the dangers of U.S. military escalation with Medea Benjamin of CodePink and George Beebe of the Quincy Institute. He is the former head of Russia analysis at the CIA and a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. The massive spending in Ukraine that outweighs public funding to combat the coronavirus pandemic shows that “there are very few things that the Biden administration thinks are more important right now than defeating Russia, and I don’t think that accords, actually, with the priorities of the American people,” says Beebe. “To support the people of Ukraine and stop the fighting, we need not to pour billions of dollars of more weapons in, but to say, 'Negotiations now,'” says Benjamin.
> .. #SocialMedia, #Twitter and other platforms.. encourage outrage.. what gets attention online, not people who are saying.. “Look, we have to look at this in a balanced way. It’s complicated. We need to understand the dynamics of all of this.” It doesn’t.. lend itself toward that kind of complexity and reasoned evidence. The people that get attention are the ones that scream the loudest.. provoke the most #outrage.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/3/russia_us_escalate_likelihood_direct_clash
#GeorgeBeebe #DN! #Ukraine #Biden #BudgetPriorities
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/3/russia_us_escalate_likelihood_direct_clash
#GeorgeBeebe #DN! #Ukraine #Biden #BudgetPriorities
“A Very Dangerous Moment”: Russian & U.S. Escalation Raises Risk of Direct Military Clash in Ukraine
As President Biden seeks $33 billion more for Ukraine, we look at the dangers of U.S. military escalation with Medea Benjamin of CodePink and George Beebe of the Quincy Institute. He is the former head of Russia analysis at the CIA and a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. The massive spending in Ukraine that outweighs public funding to combat the coronavirus pandemic shows that “there are very few things that the Biden administration thinks are more important right now than defeating Russia, and I don’t think that accords, actually, with the priorities of the American people,” says Beebe. “To support the people of Ukraine and stop the fighting, we need not to pour billions of dollars of more weapons in, but to say, 'Negotiations now,'” says Benjamin.