Day: April 17, 2021

Monday, April 12, 2021

Circassian Elders Warn Against Provocateurs Calling for Military Action

Paul Goble

            Staunton, April 9 – One of the easiest ways for outside powers who want to manipulate a people is to pose as its most radical defenders and call for members of the group to take part in military actions of one kind or another in order to advance the cause. Such provocateurs often escape censure because they denounce their critics as insufficiently committed.

            Guarding against such tactics especially in the Internet age is both extremely difficult and extremely important, difficult because the enormous flow of information makes it easy for such provocateurs to operate and important because if members of the targeted group fall for their siren song, they may put their people at risk. Read more →

Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for April 8-13, 2021 

1.      Controversy with Slovakia Undercuts Moscow’s Efforts to Promote Sale of Its Vaccine Abroad

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/controversy-with-slovakia-undercuts.html  

2.      ‘The More Moscow Tightens the Screws on Ethnic Groups, the More These Groups Back the Kremlin,’ Three Russian Scholars Say

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-more-moscow-tightens-screws-on.html  

3.      Moscow’s ‘Voyennoye Obozreniye’ Says Russia Doesn’t Need the Northern Sea Route

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/moscows-voyennoye-obozreniye-says.html  Read more →