Ned Temko, CSM: A new year and a pivotal moment for Putin and Russia
It is an annual, made-for-TV fixture on the world’s news calendar, a bit like a Kremlin Super Bowl, minus the drama about who will emerge as the star player. Yet President Vladimir Putin’s latest marathon press conference, in December, has set the stage for a potentially defining period in his nearly 20-year drive to restore Russia’s status as a major power.
Two hot spots are likely to dominate his thinking in early 2019: war-ravaged Syria and, closer to Russia’s borders and a core strategic priority, formerly Soviet Ukraine. In both, Russia has been flexing its geopolitical and military muscles, testing the degree to which the United States and its European allies are ready, willing, or able to respond. Militarily at least, there’s been no significant pushback, either to its 2014 annexation of Crimea or its military intervention in Syria, which turned the tide in favor of President Bashar al-Assad. From Mr. Putin’s perspective, the result has been a kind of virtuous circle, with geopolitical advances reinforcing his political strength at home.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 7, 2019
Circumstances Have Changed Since 1991, but Russia’s Core Foreign Policy Goals Have Not -- Dmitry Gorenburg, PONARS
Will China go to war over Taiwan? -- Peter Apps, Reuters
It's Time for a Full-Court Press on China -- Salvatore Babones, National Interest
The Maldives’ Games of Thrones -- JJ Robinson, The Diplomat
The Elusive Quest For Peace Between Turks and Kurds -- Dilan Okcuoglu, RCW
UN Syria envoy assumes post as Arabs restore links with Assad -- Sami Moubayed, Asia Times
Can Turkey broker peace in Afghanistan? -- Nasim Saber, DW
There is No Military Victory in Afghanistan -- Gil Barndollar, National Interest
To denuclearize N. Korea, Trump should think small -- Katharine H.S. Moon, Reuters
How Vietnam lost and China won Cambodia -- David Hutt, Asia Times
Why Africa loves China -- Mehari Taddele Maru, Al Jazeera
Congo at a crossroads: Waiting for election results -- Jonas Gerding, DW
These are the key African elections to watch in 2019 -- Abdi Latif Dahir, Yomi Kazeem & Lynsey Chutel, Quartz
Exculpatory Russia evidence about Mike Flynn that US intel kept secret -- John Solomon, The Hill
2019 will be the year of more state control -- John Lloyd, Reuters
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