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Lecturas ucranianas IV

05 miércoles Mar 2014

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– Sergei Markov, cuyo pensamiento no suele ir muy alejado de lo que acaba pasando en el Kremlin: «Why There Will Be War in Ukraine» (que es más un panfleto y un aviso que una tribuna).

– Zbigniew Brzezinski: «What is to be done? Putin’s aggression in Ukraine needs a response«. «His initial success may tempt him to repeat that performance more directly in the far eastern provinces of Ukraine. If successful, the conclusive third phase could then be directed, through a combination of political unrest and increasingly overt use of Russian forces, to overthrow the government in Kiev. The result would thus be similar to the two phases of Hitler’s seizure of the Sudetenland after Munich in 1938 and the final occupation of Prague and Czechoslovakia in early 1939.»

– Keith Darden en oreign Affairs: «Ukraine’s Crisis of Legitimacy«. How the New Government in Kiev Can Save Itself» (Puede requerir subscrpción).

– Tikhon Dzyadko, periodista en una de las televiones rusas más independientes: «Putin Doesn’t Know What He Wants in Ukraine«.

– Puro realismo de Katrina vanden Heuvel: «The Ukraine crisis calls for less bluster, more common sense«. «We desperately need a strong dose of realism and common sense. There is no “stick” in relation to Ukraine. Americans have no desire and no reason to go to war with Russia over what happens in Crimea. The European Union and the United States are not going to supplant Russia’s economic influence in Ukraine».

– Harriet Salem: «Who exactly is governing Ukraine?«. Unos pequeños perfiles de algunos de los ministros y dirigentes del nuevo Gobierno ucraniano.

– Y uno mucho más completo. Katya Gorchinskaya: «The not-so-revolutionary new Ukraine government«.

– Javier Solana: «Disputas Ucrania-Rusia sobre la flota rusa en el Mar Negro: el acuerdo de 1997«.

– Y Javier Solana en 2001: «Recuerdos de Crimea, 10 años después«.

– Holodomor: «Ukraine’s Genocide by Famine«. Eighty years later, there’s no denying the Soviet atrocity.

– Antonella Napolitano: «YanukovychLeaks.org Exposes a Corrupt and Violent Regime«.

Lecturas ucranianas III

03 lunes Mar 2014

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– En el WSJ, una historia de Crimea. Con mapas, un timeline y fotos. «Crimea’s Challenge«.

– Y en el FT, unos cuantos gráficos interesantes: tipo de cambio, reservas acumuladas de divisas extranjeras, socios comerciales, gas y exposición de la banca. «Ukraine: a few charts to bear in mind«.

– Jack Matlock, que fue embajador en Moscú durante la Guerra Fría: «Ukraine: The Price of Internal Division«. Realismo y pragmatismo. Sobre el país y lo que ha pasado. Un párrafo del final: «So far as violating sovereignty is concerned, Russia would point out that the U.S. invaded Panama to arrest Noriega, invaded Grenada to prevent American citizens from being taken hostage (even though they had not been taken hostage), invaded Iraq on spurious grounds that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, targets people in other countries with drones, etc., etc. In other words, for the U.S. to preach about respect for sovereignty and preservation of territorial integrity to a Russian president can seem a claim to special rights not allowed others».

– Keir Giles en el blog de Chatnam House: «Russia Will Take Whatever It Can«. «Russia learned from the armed conflict in Georgia in 2008 that use of military force against neighbours can swiftly achieve foreign policy objectives at little long-term strategic cost». (…) «Furthermore, based on past performance Russia can confidently expect that any penalties which are imposed will be short-lived. In 2008, the West was incandescent with outrage over the Georgia conflict. The following year, the United States declared a ‘reset’, NATO resumed military contacts and business as usual returned».

– Anatol Lieven: «Why Obama Shouldn’t Fall for Putin’s Ukrainian Folly«. «A century ago, two groups of countries whose real common interests vastly outweighed their differences allowed themselves to be drawn into a European war in which more than 10 million of their people died and every country suffered irreparable losses. In the name of those dead, every sane and responsible citizen in the West, Russia, and Ukraine itself should now urge caution and restraint on the part of their respective leaders».

– María Snegobaya: «How Putin’s worldview may be shaping his response in Crimea«. «Why did so few western policy analysts could predict the invasion? Because they believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal is to promote Russia’s world integration and to increase its economic power. Isn’t it the only rational thing to do? Turns out it is not how Putin sees the situation».

Y cita a algunos de los «filósofos de cabecera» de Putin, nacionalistas de inicios del siglo pasado: Berdyaev, Solovyev o Ilyin.

– Alexander J. Motyl en Foreign Affairs: «Putin’s Play.What Happens After Russia Intervenes in Ukraine«. «Putin’s geostrategically irrational muscle-flexing might enhance his legitimacy at home and stabilize the system he built for a while. But, over time, it will be Putinism’s undoing. Imperialist behavior will make Russia a rogue state and Putin persona non grata».

– Duro editorial del Washington Post: «President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy«.

– Una en español sobre la importancia de la agricultura: «Ucrania, algo más que gas«, de Andrés Rodríguez.

Lecturas ucranianas II

03 lunes Mar 2014

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– En The Guardian, una infografía: «Russia and Ukraine: the military imbalance«.

– En The New York Times: «Ukraine in Four Maps«. Fuerzas rusas en Crimea, protestas en el país. diferencias culturales y las líneas por las que circula el gas.

– Adam Taylor en el Washington Post: «This map helps put Russia’s military moves near Ukraine in perspective«.

– No me fío mucho del tuitero, al que he pillado en el pasado en renuncios, pero el gráfico (vía Manel Gozalbo) es interesante a priori: lenguaje que usar para conectarse a Internet en diferentes partes de Ucrania.

– Orlando Figes: «¿Hacia una nueva guerra?«.

– Alberto Sicilia, que ha estado en Kiev y ahora está en Crimea: «6 datos para entender Crimea, pieza clave del conflicto en Ucrania«.

– Daniel Elkind: «Here’s what’s really happening in Ukraine, according to Russian bloggers«.

– Charles King: «Crimea, the Tinderbox«. «The future of Ukraine is now no longer about Kiev’s Independence Square, democracy in Ukraine or European integration. It is about how to preserve a vision of Europe — and, indeed, of the world — where countries give up the idea that people who speak a language we understand are the only ones worth protecting».

– Peter Spiegel en el FT: «Ukraine and the west: an international legal primer«.

– Mark Ames: «Pierre Omidyar co-funded Ukraine revolution groups with US government, documents show«.

Lecturas ucranianas

03 lunes Mar 2014

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– Historión. «The ex-Israeli soldier who led a Kiev fighting unit in Maidan«. He calls his troops “the Blue Helmets of Maidan,”. Delta — the nom de guerre of the commander of a Jewish-led militia force that participated in the Ukrainian revolution. Under his helmet, he also wears a kippah. “I don’t belong [to Svoboda], but I take orders from their team. They know I’m Israeli, Jewish and an ex-IDF soldier. They call me ‘brother,’” he said.

– Un vídeo de la BBC desde Kiev: «Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine: NEWSNIGHT«.

– Related: «Ukrainian nationalists strive to shake off allegations of anti-Semitism«. Anti-government protesters say Nazi name-calling is propaganda designed to undermine their movement.»

– Ben Judah: «Why Russia No Longer Fears the West«. «Putin’s inner circle no longer fear the European establishment. They once imagined them all in MI6. Now they know better. They have seen firsthand how obsequious Western aristocrats and corporate tycoons suddenly turn when their billions come into play. They now view them as hypocrites—the same European elites who help them hide their fortunes».

– Xavi Colás desde Crimea: «‘No soy ucraniano, soy soviético‘».

– Dmtri Trenin: «The crisis in Crimea could lead the world into a second cold war«.

– Julia Ioffe: «Putin’s War in Crimea Could Soon Spread to Eastern Ukraine And nobody—not the U.S., not NATO—can stop him«.

– Natalia Shapovalova en El Mundo: «Un nuevo liderazgo para Ucrania«.

– En The Economist: Saving Ukraine: «How the West can help«.

– Y también en The Economist: «The February revolution«. Can Ukraine find any leaders who will live up to the aspirations of its battered, victorious but sceptical protesters?

– John Müller: «Claves energéticas de la crisis«.

Lecturas de Domingo

02 domingo Mar 2014

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– Historión: «The Plot from Solitary«. How four alleged leaders of rival gangs launched a hunger strike 30,000 strong. Was the prison system that corralled them not strong enough, or is solitary confinement an impossible idea?

– Y hay que leer esto: «The Murders Before the Marathon«. Waltham, September 11, 2011: Three men, throats slit, cash and drugs left on the bodies. Two years later, two dead suspects: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and a friend who the FBI says was about to confess. One haunting question: Could solving this case have prevented the Boston Marathon bombings? Vía Manel Gozalbo. (ojo, hay un par de fotos duras).

– «Comrades say Marine heroism tale of Iraq veteran was untrue«». La historia de Rafael Peralta. Vía Beatriz Hoya.

– Una sorprendente: «Greetings from Gitmo: «Disabled vets beat their trauma at the unfriendliest place on Earth». vía Beatriz también.

– Dos buenísimas de ciencia: «How the Cold War Created Astrobiology«. Life, death, and Sputnik. Vía Jorge Galindo.

– Y «How Two Pigeons Helped Scientists Confirm the Big Bang Theory«. For decades, astronomers had debated how the universe began. Then, in 1964, they had their «Eureka!» moment.

– Timothy Synder: «Ukraine: The Haze of Propaganda«.

– José Álvarez Junco: «Historia y mito«. Vía Javier Solana.

– «The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life» . Justin Carter’s violent threat on Facebook lands him in jail, and limbo».

– «One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society«.

– «Sexual Assault at God’s Harvard«. Patrick Henry College was supposed to be a safe place. For these young women, it wasn’t.»

– «The first marathon runner wasn’t Greek, he was Jewish» (Plus: the Jewish Runner Hall of Fame).

Buen domingo a todos!