Common Grounds

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• Russia Is Finished as a Major Energy Power

  
  April 07, 2022 14:38

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ending-russia-energy-leverage-by-simon-johnson-and-oleg-ustenko-2022-03?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=01b9aced13-sunday_newsletter_04_03_2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-01b9aced13-93791313&mc_cid=01b9aced13&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  By SIMON JOHNSON, OLEG USTENKO

  Published March 31, 2022

   

  In the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, no European in their right mind wants Russia to have the free cash flow that its hydrocarbon exports currently provide. And the European Union, the United States, and their allies are already on track to remove this major source of the Kremlin's geopolitical leverage.

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• Zelensky, entering new stage of war, faces political test

  
  April 07, 2022 11:25

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/03/zelenky-putin-peace-deal-ukraine-politics/

   

  By Paul Sonne, Shane Harris, Michael Birnbaum and Souad Mekhennet

   

  As the war grinds on and peace talks continue, the Ukrainian president confronts new challenges

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• Editorial | Did Somebody Say ‘Oil,’ ‘Petro-Dictator,’ ‘America’s Addiction to Oil?’

  
  April 01, 2022 14:43

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

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• How to Defeat Putin and Save the Planet

  
  April 01, 2022 11:08

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/opinion/how-to-defeat-putin-and-save-the-planet.html?campaign_id=225&emc=edit_nttf_20220329&instance_id=57065&nl=thomas-friedman&regi_id=69909790&segment_id=86929&te=1&user_id=f9c06872cc476fdf04233a4c100d7930

   

  By Thomas L. Friedman

  Published March 29, 2022

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• Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

  
  April 05, 2022 12:13

  Source: New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine

   

  By Isaac Chotiner

  Published March 1, 2022

   

  For years, the political scientist has claimed that Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is caused by Western intervention. Have recent events changed his mind?

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• Opinion | Ukraine War: Why Most Israelis Blame Putin, but Most Palestinians Don't

  
  April 05, 2022 12:39

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-ukraine-war-why-israelis-blame-putin-but-palestinians-don-t-1.10716311?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_content=4a65b68ad3&lts=1649084371925

   

  By Dahlia Scheindlin

  Published April 3, 2022

   

  In recent surveys, Israelis and Palestinians hold sweepingly different attitudes towards Russia’s war on Ukraine, exposing how far their own conflict filters how they see the world, all the way to Kyiv and Moscow

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• Israel and the Triangular Crisis of Ukraine, Iran, and Palestine

  
  April 05, 2022 15:07

  Source: The New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/israel-and-the-triangular-crisis-of-ukraine-iran-and-palestine

   

  By Bernard Avishai

  Published April 1, 2022

   

  A summit in Israel, at a decisive moment, highlighted the tensions that have rendered the nation an outlier among democratic states.

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• Is Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict a Platform for Racism and Rewriting History

  
  April 05, 2022 14:29

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/is-europe-really-more-civilized-ukraine-conflict-a-platform-for-racism-and-rewriting-history/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published April 4, 2022

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• President Zelenskyy, one Israel is enough

  
  April 19, 2022 13:54

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/19/president-zelenskyy-one-israel-is-enough

   

  By Andrew Mitrovica

  Published April 19, 2022

   

  The Ukrainian leader’s recent declaration that his country will become a ‘big Israel with its own face’ after the war invites a blunt, unambiguous reproach.

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• Ukraine and Palestine: How the West embraces one resistance but demonises another

  
  April 19, 2022 14:11

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-west-embraces-one-resistance-demonises-another-how

   

  By David Hearst

  Published April 18, 2022

   

  Ukraine's defiance in the face of Putin’s aggression has been dubbed heroic, so why doesn't the Palestinian resistance get the same treatment?

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