Artikelen

6-3-2022: Moeten we bang zijn voor Rusland? Prof Herman Philipse gaat in gesprek met schrijver en correspondent Pieter Waterdrinker. In een paar jaar tijd annexeerde Poetin de Krim. Hij joeg het conflict in Oost-Oekraïne aan, en werd een cruciale speler in de Syrische burgeroorlog. Rusland doet er alles aan om het Westen te ondermijnen. Of is dat een waanbeeld? Hoe kunnen we Poetins machtsvertoon begrijpen?

5-3-2022: Chris Hayes: “When Republican politicians say that Putin would not have invaded Ukraine under Trump, they are probably right. But for the wrong reasons.”

2-3-2022: For the first time in decades, it's hard to ignore the threat of nuclear war. But as long as you're far from the blast, you're safe, right? Wrong. In this sobering talk, atmospheric scientist Brian Toon explains how even a small nuclear war could destroy all life on earth -- and what we can do to prevent it.

26-2-2022: In this video, we'll try & understand why Russia launched a full-scale military attack on Ukraine. And what story or narrative is being passed on to other countries in the world.

23-2-2022: Former United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta joins Morning Joe to discuss the crisis unfolding in Russia and Ukraine, and the American response to it — both from the current administration, and from members of the former. 

17-2-2022:  

16-2-2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday stressed that Moscow did not want war over Ukraine, and called for resolving discussions over Kyiv's bid to join NATO "right now". After meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Kremlin, Putin said Russia had put forward proposals during weeks of diplomatic attempts to resolve tensions which had not received "substantial constructive response".

15-2-2022: After the fall of the Soviet Union, I told the Senate that expansion would lead us to where we are today. Today we face an avoidable crisis between the United States and Russia that was predictable, willfully precipitated, but can easily be resolved by the application of common sense. 

9-2-2022:

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer werd gepushed door George Bush junior om in Boekarest de optie open te houden dat Ukraine lid kon worden van de NAVO.

Hij was een grote speler op het toneel die marges had om een eigen koers te varen om naar compromissen te streven. 

2-10-2018: On September 27, 2018, Yale's Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism hosted Vladimir Pozner, the acclaimed Russian-American journalist and broadcaster. Pozner spoke on the impact of US foreign policy towards Russia after the Soviet Union has been disbanded, and shared his opinions on a range of issues raised by the audience, from the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections, to Skripal poisoning, to the state of independent media in Russia and the US.