NATO COMMANDER VISIT IN UKRAINE<\/b><\/p>\n
US CONGRESS POSITION ON WEAPON SUPPLIES TO UKRAINE<\/b><\/p>\n
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NATO fears Russian could control Black Sea region.<\/b><\/p>\n
Foreign Policy:<\/p>\n
”\u00a0NATO fears Russian could control Black Sea region is the title of the article in Cable blog in Foreign Policy journal. Journalist David Francis explains Breedlove warned about this on Wednesday. “We are very concerned with the militarization of Crimea. We are concerned that the capabilities in Crimea that are being installed will bring an effect on almost the entire Black Sea,” Philip Breedlove said after meetings in Kiev with Ukrainian leaders.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2014\/11\/26\/nato_fears_russia_could_control_black_sea_region<\/a><\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s fate may depend upon the battle within Germany\u2019s ruling coalition over its policy towards Putin\u2019s Russia. In the United States, the new Republican Senate will battle the Obama administration over weapons for Ukraine.<\/b><\/p>\n Forbes:<\/p>\n “”There can be no diplomatic solution based on weakness, Gregory sums up. Putin will come to the negotiating table only when the economic sanctions and mounting casualties threaten his hold on power. Until then, he will insist on a federalized Ukraine that gives Russian-occupied provinces veto power over Kiev and the right to intervene anywhere in the world where Russians need protection.”<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paulroderickgregory\/2014\/11\/26\/berlin-and-washington-the-political-battles-that-could-decide-ukraines-fate\/<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n WHO\u2019S GUILTY? AND WHAT TO DO?<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Stephan Fule summarized the critical outcome of the EU policy towards Ukraine. He says the Association agreement with the EU wasn\u2019t happen not only because of Putin\u2019s pressure, but also because of EU\u2019s mistake. A year ago Germany and other countries refused to give Ukraine the prospect of EU membership<\/b>.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n Der Spiegel:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/ausland\/ukraine-eu-verhandler-geben-bundesregierung-mitschuld-an-krise-a-1005001.html<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Why Ukraine must bargain with Russia.<\/b><\/p>\n Foreign Policy:\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Kiev last week for this third visit to Ukraine\u2019s capital in the past seven months. He arrived bearing gifts: additional nonlethal military aid for the embattled Ukrainian government, expert and author Samuel Charap writes for Foreign Policy. He thinks Baiden\u2019s visit combined with some tough words in public for Putin is appropriate. He hopes the public cover needed to make a far more important point to President Petro Poroshenko: Ukraine needs to make a deal with Russia if it wants to survive this crisis.<\/p>\n Charap thinks a political settlement would be far more important for Ukraine in the short to medium term than Western support \u2013 even more important than the lethal aid.\u00a0Charap\u00a0sums\u00a0up:\u00a0The\u00a0West\u00a0should\u00a0support\u00a0Ukraine,\u00a0but\u00a0also\u00a0should\u00a0simultaneously\u00a0work\u00a0on\u00a0diplomatic\u00a0strategy,\u00a0which\u00a0enablesKiev\u00a0to\u00a0achieve\u00a0broader\u00a0and\u00a0better-functioning\u00a0arrangements\u00a0with\u00a0Moscow\u00a0in\u00a0order\u00a0to\u00a0de-escalate\u00a0this crisis.\u00a0“The United States should be encouraging and facilitating talks with just as much\u00a0if no more, gusto as it delivers military assistance,\u201d the author adds. But thus far Washington seems more interested in delivering body armor than deploying special envoys.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2014\/11\/26\/why_ukraine_must_bargain_with_russia_putin_poroshenko_united_states<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n GERMANY\u2019S POSITION\u00a0: A SPLIT BETWEEN MERKEL AND STEINMEIER<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n The meeting in Brisbane, and a separate one in Milan one month before — where Putin made promises about Russian behavior in eastern Ukraine that German officials say were broken within days — pushed frustration levels in Berlin to new heights. Merkel had hit a diplomatic dead-end with Putin.<\/b>\u00a0Putin stays on his positions. The latest Steinmeier\u2019s visit to Ukraine and Russian did not bring the results. Berlin begins preparing for a new Cold War.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n Reuters:\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/25\/us-ukraine-crisis-germany-insight-idUSKCN0J91EN20141125<\/a><\/p>\n Poland, Ukraine and Baltic States are given the role of peace disturbers who with no reason cause damage to our fine relationship with Russia, or even \u201csmall kids who ought to be silent when grown-ups are talking\u201d.\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n Der Tagesspiegel:\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n \u00abIn the East-European territories between Germany and Russia there live 190 million people, and as neighbors and partners they mean more to us than 140 million in Russia\u201d \u2013 writes Kristof von Marshall in Der Tagesspiegel.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.tagesspiegel.de\/politik\/deutschlands-blick-nach-osten-die-maer-von-unserem-nachbarn-russland\/11026806.html<\/a><\/p>\n Chancellor Angela Merkel was criticizing heavily Vladimir Putin\u2019s policy at the general debates in Bundestag.<\/b>.<\/b><\/p>\n Die Welt:<\/p>\n “Crime\u2019sannexation\u00a0by\u00a0Russian\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0be\u00a0justified or forgiven, the chancellor said. (\u2026) Russia\u2019s actions put under question the European belief system and undermine norms of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/article134737882\/Merkel-rechnet-mit-Putin-ab.html<\/a><\/p>\n The most frequent conversant with Putin among the Western leaders, Merkel has purportedly decided that the Kremlin chief cannot be trusted and that a near-term political solution of the Ukraine crisis is not in the cards..\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n Forbes:<\/p>\n Merkel\u2019s Social Democrat coalition partners, led by foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, appear not to be on the same page.\u00a0\u201cThe Social Democrats (SPD) fear that a reversion to Cold War would negate their signal postwar achievement \u2013 Willy Brandt\u2019s Ostpolitik \u2013 which SPD lore claims led to German reunification and the end of the Soviet threat,\u201d Gregory explains. \u201cGermany\u2019s coalition conflict has been heating up since the G20 in Brisbane, the article explains. \u201cAs Merkel hardened her stance towards Putin, Steinmeier traveled to Moscow to engage in one-on-one personal diplomacy with Putin for a \u201cpeaceful solution\u201d to the Ukraine business.\u201d \u201cThe German Grand Coalition cannot continue with two competing foreign policies,\u201d Gregory thinks. He writes Putin is again playing a dangerous high-risk game.\u00a0He could face a united anti-Putin opposition in a new German government headed by a highly irritated Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paulroderickgregory\/2014\/11\/26\/berlin-and-washington-the-political-battles-that-could-decide-ukraines-fate\/<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0BRITAIN\u2019S\u00a0<\/b>POSITION<\/b><\/p>\n Former U.K prime minister Tony Blair said that he thought the West would have to work with Vladimir Putin on issues like Islamist extremism, despite standing firm against Russia\u2019s annexation of Ukrainian territory.<\/b><\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal:<\/p>\n http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/brussels\/2014\/11\/25\/tony-blair-on-israel-palestine-putin-eurozone-brexit-and-kazakhstan\/<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0FRANCE\u2019S\u00a0<\/b>POSITION\u00a0<\/b>ON MISTRAL SHIPS<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Delivery of Mistral \u2013 Vanity Fair.\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n Le Figaro:<\/p>\n