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Analysis + OpinionMarch 10, 2022More than 80,000 people have been evacuated from areas near Kyiv and the city of Sumy.Ada PetriczkoThe New York TimesWhat happened on Day 15 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: At least three cities in western and central Ukraine were hit. In besieged Mariupol, bodies are now being buried in trenches. President Biden will call for suspending normal trade relations with Russia. |
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In the NewsMarch 9, 2022Ukraine helped build China’s modern military, but when war came, Beijing chose RussiaEva Dou and Pei Lin Wu The Washington PostQuoted: “Russia is far and away the most important arms supplier to China,” said M Taylor Fravel, the director of the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Where Ukraine has really helped China has been in the area of jet engines, as well as some ship engines and air-to-air missiles.” |
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Analysis + OpinionMarch 9, 2022Pentagon says Poland’s fighter jet offer is not ‘tenable.’Ada PetriczkoNew York TimesThe Pentagon on Tuesday rejected an offer from the Polish government to send its MiG-29 fighter planes to a United States air base in Germany for eventual use by Ukraine, a rare note of disunity between two NATO allies as they confront Russia. |
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Analysis + OpinionMarch 8, 2022The Russian sanctions regime and the risk of catastrophic successErik Sand and Suzanne FreemanWar on the RocksSince the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Western governments have turned to economic sanctions as their principal response. Erik Sand and Suzanne Freeman explore the potential consequences of sanctions and outcomes/responses by Putin and the West. |
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Analysis + OpinionMarch 8, 2022How the war in Ukraine could get much worseEmma Ashford and Joshua ShifrinsonForeign Affairs |
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Analysis + OpinionMarch 8, 2022For this border crisis, Poles extend a warm welcome, unlike last time.Ada PetriczkoNew York TimesYears of nationalist, anti-refugee policies have left Poland with a fragmented immigration system. It’s now mostly up to citizens to handle what the UNHCR said was “the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II." |
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In the NewsMarch 8, 2022You should be scaredAndrian KreyeFeuilletonHow do we respond to dystopian images and messages in the news? Roger Petersen contributes his analysis on the war in Ukraine and the weapon of fear. |
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Analysis + OpinionMarch 7, 2022The ghosts of history haunt the Russia-Ukraine crisisElizabeth WoodBroadstreetIf we want to understand whether Putin has any commitment to these talks, we have to understand the view of both men (and many others) that Ukraine is not now nor should ever be an independent state. And we have to wonder what it means that the man placed in charge of the negotiations from the Russian side has explicitly called the country he is negotiating with a “phantom.” |
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News@E40March 7, 2022Understanding the war in Ukraine with MIT SSP“Understanding the War in Ukraine” is a special seminar presented by MIT's Security Studies Program held on March 2, 2022. Participants in the panel discussion and subsequent Q&A were: Mariya Grinberg, a professor of Political Science at MIT; Barry Posen, a professor of Political Science at MIT; Carol Saivetz, a special adviser to MIT SSP; Elizabeth Wood, a Russia specialist and professor of History at MIT; moderated by M Taylor Fravel, director of MIT SSP. |
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In the NewsMarch 6, 2022Nuclear fears intensify as Ukraine war builds. What is Putin's threshold?Fred GuterlNewsweekQuoted: “If the Russian campaign starts to feel like it's a military catastrophe, that's where escalation to nuclear weapons comes into play,” says Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT....“I don't like the discussions I'm hearing from the fringes of the establishment,” says Posen. “I don't like the emotions running hot. I don't like the weird appearance on our side, way too early, of a kind of victory disease: ‘Let's win this thing. Maybe Putin will fall’.” |