Mark Galeotti
Principal Director at Freelance
Contributing Editor at bne IntelliNews
Mayak Intelligence, @UCLSSEES, @RUSI_org, @IIR_Prague. Analyst of murky topics from Russian politics to global crime. Views my own
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1 week ago |
thespectator.com | Mark Galeotti
So the on-again-off-again US-Ukrainian resources deal has been signed. It is perhaps appropriate that it was done without fanfare, marked by emailed press release. While its terms are rather better than originally mooted, it still shows not that “the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine” as US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent put it, but to neo-colonial exploitation.
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1 week ago |
thespectator.com | Mark Galeotti
So the on-again-off-again US-Ukrainian resources deal has been signed. It is perhaps appropriate that it was done without fanfare, marked by emailed press release. While its terms are rather better than originally mooted, it still shows not that “the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine” as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put it, but to neocolonial exploitation.
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1 week ago |
spectator.com.au | Mark Galeotti
So the on-again-off-again US-Ukrainian resources deal has been signed. It is perhaps appropriate that it was done without fanfare, marked by emailed press release. While its terms are rather better than originally mooted, it still shows not that ‘the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centred on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine’ as US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent put it, but to neo-colonial exploitation.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | Mark Galeotti
So the on-again-off-again US-Ukrainian resources deal has been signed. It is perhaps appropriate that it was done without fanfare, marked by emailed press release. While its terms are rather better than originally mooted, it still shows not that ‘the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centred on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine’ as US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent put it, but to neo-colonial exploitation.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Mark Galeotti
Even by the elevated standards of Kremlin cynicism, Vladimir Putin’s invocation of a three-day ceasefire across the span of the Victory Day celebrations commemorating the end of the second world war in Europe takes some beating.
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The latest example of the Kremlin's attempt to present itself as an ally of the USA against an untrustworthy Europe - Nikolai Patrushev in Kommersant
In one of today's Russian papers a Kremlin hawk, known for his anti-Western rhetoric, calls for cooperation with America. What we learn from Nikolai Patrushev’s interview to Kommersant. #ReadingRussia https://t.co/PIw5i3SmTa
Easter Monday re-up: sadly, hardly the most peaceable of episodes, but instead how sharpening talk of '5th columnists' in the elite makes it relevant to think of the risk of a fascist turn in Russia...
In Moscow's Shadows 197: Russia's future fascist turn? Ultimately, I don't think Russia will succumb to full-blown fascism... but a recent upsurge in nationalist populism makes me think it is more possible than I would like https://t.co/3evD322KBo