In my recent short post on Ukraine, I said that, as in the Syria crisis last year, I had seen no reason to say in my own words what many others say very well in theirs, but that I had regularly posted those others’ articles and interviews on Facebook, and this time also on Twitter. (After all, I am not primarily a political commentator.)
But the conflict is even more serious than last year’s, and for this reason I find there is reason to post here a list, with links, of the most important articles etc. I have shared in these social media during the last few weeks (there must of course be many I have missed). Thanks to my Facebook friends who brought many of them to my attention by sharing them! Those who read (and in some cases listen) to this will get a firm grasp of the nature and meaning of this present crisis.
Lars Borgnäs Ryssland skildras lika ensidigt som Sovjet skildrade västvärlden (SR)
Rodric Braithwaite The Ukraine Crisis: No Wonder Vladimir Putin Think’s Crimea is Russian
Patrick J. Buchanan Why Play Cold War Games in Ukraine?
Patrick J. Buchanan Obama Should Make Ending Wars His Legacy
Patrick J. Buchanan Resist the War Party on Crimea
Patrick J. Buchanan Hillary, Hitler & World War II
Patrick J. Buchanan Marco Rubio’s Absurd Foreign Policy
Patrick J. Buchanan What Difference Does It Make?
Patrick J. Buchanan Who and What is Vladimir Putin?
Aymeric Chauprade Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête
Neil Clark Crimea: Another Artificially Created Crisis
Stephen F. Cohen Distorting Russia: How the American Media Misrepresent Putin, Sochi, and Ukraine
A New Cold War? Ukraine Violence Escalates, Leaked Tape Suggests U.S. was Plotting Coup (Democracy Now interview with Stephen F. Cohen)
Stephen F. Cohen interview (PBS NewsHour)
Stephen F. Cohen A Russia Scholar’s View (letter to the editor, NYT)
US Betrayal of Russia (Stephen Cohen lecture, 2011)
Johan Croneman SVT har inte haft en självständig utrikesanalytiker på flera decennier
William Engdahl The Rape of Ukraine: Phase Two Begins
Chris Ernesto Brzezinski Mapped Out the Battle for Ukraine in 1997
Philip Giraldi Simple Stuff About Ukraine
Tommy Hansson Det problematiska Ukraina: Omogen och klantig opposition
Tommy Hansson Inga roliga framtidsutsikter för Ukraina
Hans Heckel Berlins zentrale Rolle: Führt der Western bereits einen neuen kalten Krieg?
Stefan Hedlund Enda vägen framåt är dialog med Ryssland
Peter Hitchens Further Thoughts on Russia
Henry A. Kissinger How the Ukraine Crisis Ends
Daniel Larison NATO Expansion Makes Less Sense Than Ever
Daniel Larison The Uses and Abuses of Reagan
Daniel Larison More Shameless Hawkish Revisionism
Daniel Larison Do Somethingism Run Amok
Daniel Larison The Missile Defense Distraction
Daniel Larison Thank Goodness Romney Isn’t President
Daniel Larison Almost All Sanctions Are “Unserious”
Carl Johan Ljungberg Ukrainakrisen ger underbetyg – för Väst
Nebojsa Malic Promised Land: Serbia and Ukraine, Crimea and Kosovo
Daniel McAdams Geoffrey Pyatt: The Outlaw as Sheriff
Daniel McCarthy Why Russia Doesn’t Want Crimea
John J. Mearsheimer Getting Ukraine Wrong
Seumas Milne In Ukraine, Fascists, Oligarchs and Western Expansion are at the Heart of the Crisis
Seumas Milne The Clash in Crimea is the Fruit of Western Expansion
Adrien Oster De l’ex-Yougoslavie au Québec: ce que l’Histoire dit du référendum en Crimée
Robert Parry Neocons and the Ukraine Coup
Robert Parry Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine
Robert Parry Neocons Have Weathered the Storm
How NGOs Helped Plan Ukraine War (Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity; RT)
Ron Paul Can We Afford Ukraine?
Justin Raimondo From Iraq to Ukraine: A Pattern of Disaster
Justin Raimondo Let Crimea Go!
Paul Craig Roberts Russia Under Attack
Paul Craig Roberts Is Ukraine Drifting Toward Civil War and Great Power Confrontation?
Paul Craig Roberts Obama Declares Self-Determination to be a Threat to US National Security
Michael S. Rozeff Nuland and Pyatt Supporting a Revolution
Rick Rozoff Blood in the Streets: West is Repeating Syrian Model in Ukraine
Jeffrey Sachs A New Post-Soviet Playbook: Why the West Should Tread Carefully in Ukraine
Jacques Sapir Référendum en Crimée
Ramon Schack “Gegenüber Russland wähnt sich der Westen noch immer im Kalten Krieg” (Interview mit Peter Scholl-Latour)
Ramon Schack “Der Zerfall der Ukraine ist in vollem Gang” (Interview mit Peter Scholl-Latour)
Margarita Simonyan About Abby Martin, Liz Wahl and Media Wars
Jonathan Steele The Ukraine Crisis: John Kerry and NATO Must Calm Down and Back Off
Peter Strzelecki Rieth Ukraine and the Neoconservatives Who Wrecked Reagan’s Peace
Srdja Trifkovic Ukraine Bosnified, Putin Hitlerized
John Wight Putin is Playing Chess While the West is Playing Checkers
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The Right Sector (video)
Ukraine: White House is “Outraged by Images” (Moon of Alabama)
Facts you need to know about Crimea and why it is in turmoil (RT)
Putin’s press conference, 4 March
Yanukovich’s statement, 11 March
Ukraine: Kiev snipers reportedly hired by opposition leaders not Yanukovich according to ‘bugged call’ (The Independent)
Därför sköt krypskyttar mot båda sidor i Kiev (Aftonbladet)
Euromaidan massacre: What really happened in Kiev on Feb. 20, 2014 (Part 1) (Andre Fomine video)
After the Referendum (Da Russophile)
Five Myths About the Crimean Referendum (Da Russophile)
Kiev snipers shooting from bldg controlled by Maidan forces – Ex-Ukraine Security Chief (WND Information Clearing House; RT)
Mercenaries took part in Maidan violence – Ex-Ukraine security chief (RT)
Gorbachev urges mutually acceptable solution in Ukraine crisis, to prevent “new Cold War” (RT)
World should welcome Crimea joining Russia: Gorbachev (AsiaOne)
Kissinger: EU orsak till krisen i Ukraina (Aftonbladet)
Scholl-Latour: “Ukrainer haben verrückt gespielt” (RuhrNachrichten)
Krim-Krise: Putin verstehen mit Gerhard Schröder (Die Zeit)
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Edit: I have updated the list with articles etc. I shared on Facebook and Twitter on 17th and 18th March.

Une réflexion sur la nature et le rôle des médias en France
Die äußeren Feinde unserer Nation hat Kleine-Hartlage in drei Büchern beschrieben. Nun analysiert er die Selbstzerstörung des liberalen Systems, seine Verteidigungsschwäche und kulturelle Infragestellung. Er argumentiert gewohnt “nah am Leser” und zeigt mit frappierenden Beispielen aus der Praxis, wie weit sich die Ideologie bereits vom gesunden Menschenverstand entfernt hat. Ist da noch etwas zu retten? Kleine-Hartlage gibt eine skeptische Prognose: Ein System, das nur noch innerhalb seiner wirklichkeitsfernen Denkmuster argumentiert, kann keine Lösungen formulieren. Es lebt von Voraussetzungen, die es selbst nicht schaffen kann. So wird es zur Beute für nicht-liberale, aggressive Gegenentwürfe.