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Hi Folks, I started my seedlings about 3-4 weeks ago, under a florescent light fixture. The light was closer at first, but was recently moved up to about 2 feet above. They get 12-14 hours of light a day, and a watering each day. Some days I set the fan on low, other days I leave it off. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong and whether or not I should abandon them and start over?? |
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I am having the same problem with tomato seedlings this year. I've started my own seeds for years and have never had this problem. I had noticed some knats hovering over the flats and treated for possible fungal knat infestations to no avail. I have used different seed mixes, new flats and seeds from different companies, but all of the tomato seedlings I have planted look just like yours. I have seen others posting about this same problem on other sites this year, as well. Anyone else having this problem? |
- Posted by BriAnDaren Ottawa zone 5 (My Page) on Wed, Apr 9, 14 at 10:24
There's definitely something wrong with your plants. Since you don't even know what's the cause of the problem, let alone how to fix it, I would recommend starting over. It's not too late to sow new seeds now since end of May is the usual planting time for southern Ontario. If you're going to start over, try a different mix for your seedling. I'm guessing that's the source of the problem. Daren |
and a watering each day There is the cause of your problems with the tomato plants. More seedlings are killed by over-watering than all other issues combined and seedlings don't require daily watering. The soil in the picture is clearly far too wet. However the cabbage plants or whatever they are behind them in the photo appear to have some form of pest damage. Dave |
Yes they look very wet. Light is not the problem but two feet away is too high. I planted lots of different tomato seeds this spring. A few had knobby tops and funny leaves and those were from old seed. What is your planting medium? Something is very wrong there, starting over sounds right to me also. |
Did you make your own media? Or did you "fix" a store-bought mix with something? If one or the other, what are the ingredients? |
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Al Williams, owner of Indevideo, denied wrongdoing, saying he was authorized to retransmit DirecTV programs to his customers and was paying the El Segundo, Calif.-based satellite TV company for those rights.
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McKay, Williams and Paul LaBarre, another principal in Eagle West, were among the individual defendants named in the civil suit.
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Indevideo's Williams said he had an agreement with DirecTV that spelled out how the signal was to be used. He added that he was up to date in paying his bill to DirecTV.
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Hi everyone , I have been tossing around a couple new roses for the back gardens , was stuck between reine des violettes and rosarium uetersen . I have every intention to purchase them from ARE because I always do. To get to the point I was at big lots and I could not walk past the horror of the stack of bare root roses they had for 3.75 each. And to my surprise they had RDV ... so I grabbed 3 and figured what the heck , I can try to save them... They're going to die here anyway. So being z5 , how do I properly store them until I can plant them? I've only ever bought potted/ own root roses. Thanks for any advice. |
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I wish you good luck with these Big Lot roses. Most times they are of the lowest grade possible and mislabeled. But since you already have them the first thing you need to do is water them. They've probably been dry for weeks and need water desperately. I have kept bare roots in buckets of water in a cold, dark place for a month or so. it's always iffy but it's the best idea I've had for keeping them until I can plant. The only other thing I have tried is to pot them and try and keep them under lights. Still moisture is going to be the biggest problem. You can not let them dry out. |
If you can dig your soil and it drains so it doesn't remain soggy, burying them under a foot or so of soil can keep them hydrated and in good condition until planting, too. Like healing in climbers and tree roses in severe climates, keeping them cool, damp and dark will keep them well for quite a few months until the temps are suitable for planting. A safe way to accomplish that is dig a trench a foot to two feet deep, long enough to lay the roses (out of their packages) in it. Take two lengths of rope, long enough to lay across the trench so they can be loosely tied around them, one at each end of the plants, leaving the ends protruding from the soil so you can FIND them come spring. Fill in the trench, covering the plants completely and use whatever "winter protection" you like, be it leaves, compost, tree boughs, etc., or just leave the soil uncovered if that's what you normally do for your roses over winter. When the time is right for planting bare roots where you are, simply dig them up and plant. Good luck! Kim |
- Posted by RachaelLemmon 5 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 8, 14 at 22:20
I know they are not good at all, i just felt so bad for them. They had cl iceberg and Don Juan and they were just green as they could be... But still I took the ugly step children. I will put them in the bucket of water, would my garage be an ok spot? Dark and cool as it's under the house , I'd say about 40 degrees down there. The only other option is the attic but It is quite warm up there. Thank you so much... If I can just save one It will be worth it! I should know better than to go back in the garden section.... I was looking for a new bird bath:( |
- Posted by RachaelLemmon 5 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 8, 14 at 22:23
Thank you roseseek , that is what I do with my standard , but I am frozen solid up here on the mountain ! |
The garage is OK but try to keep them out of any light if possible. Maybe put them under a box or something. You want to delay them coming out of dormancy if possible. |
Definitely soak them. I've soaked roses for weeks before planting. If it' starts to wake up and you still can't plant, you can always put it in a pot. While body bags are hit and miss, I still have 2 that I couldn't kill with dynamite, Golden Showers and QE Climber. |
- Posted by RachaelLemmon 5 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 9, 14 at 12:34
Thanks Buford! I figure for 10 dollars , if I even save one then it was worth it.. If not then it was only 10 bucks. Should I completely remove and soak them , or just poke holes in the body bags ? ;-) It could be a solid month before I can plant them without frost threat |
- Posted by mad_gallica Z5 Eastern NY (My Page) on Sun, Mar 9, 14 at 12:44
Frost threat has nothing to do with planting bare root roses. What you are worried about is whether or not the soil is workable. So the snow has to melt, and the ground dry out a bit. That can happen surprisingly fast once spring gets here. |
- Posted by RachaelLemmon 5 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 9, 14 at 12:57
Thank you gallica, I really have never dealt with bare roots , so this is all new to me. I figured since they had some leaves that the freezing temp was bad, forecast says 7 degrees for us here on Thursday...enough already! |
On whether or not to take them out of the bags, I've tried it both ways and I prefer to take them out. The stuff inside the bag is usually like saw dust or wood shavings and after a while of soaking it starts to get yucky and smell. So I remove all the packaging and soak them bare. Keep an eye on the water in the bucket. If it starts to get slimy and smell change it out and don't let it freeze! |
- Posted by RachaelLemmon 5 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 9, 14 at 15:38
Took them out unpacked the roots and was surprised to see quite a bit of white and pink growth from the roots. Also noted suckering canes on one ... No dr Huey for me pls... Anywho I am hopeful for atleast one possibly two.. The third however had about half the roots broken in the bag so I'm not counting on her . Thank you to everyone for the fast responses since time was not in great supply on this. Hope I can plant them soon and see what happens :) |
Don't worry about the broken roots, Rachael. Just cut them cleanly and treat it the same as you do the others. Syl Arena (Arena Roses) joked how people wanted LONG roots on their packaged bare roots and how he dug them from the fields, whacked the tops AND roots back to a few inches, then took them home to his garden in Paso Robles where they grew monstrously. Of course there are climate and varietal variations, but broken and/or short roots are not a death sentence. I've had established plants (own root as well as budded) be viciously attacked by gophers where virtually every root was eaten to the crown of the plant, and they survived by being cut back, mounded and kept well watered. I had a friend years ago who lived in the Antelope Valley north of here where it gets HOT and very dry. Penni would transplant her roses any time of the year she desired and she never lost one. Moving something established breaks and severs many roots and, if kept properly shaded and hydrated, most will spring back to life if given the chance. Good luck! Kim |
- Posted by RachaelLemmon 5 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 9, 14 at 16:40
I put them all together in the bucket, the one that was damaged had on whole side(half) of the roots broken , is what I meant. Two sections of about 8 inches of root completely broken away . But we shall see... I love a happy ending ! Lol. Thanks so much Kim for the info, I love learning more... And there's always more to learn in gardening especially with roses. Do you prefer bare root over own root? I see Pickering nursery has high ratings with their bare roots. |
You're welcome, Rachael. I wouldn't worry about that damage. It will probably regenerate itself as long as the plant hasn't, or doesn't become too dehydrated and that area dies. That's what knocks them off usually. Either that, sun burning or freezing. Otherwise, in the absence of diseases or other physical damage, the plant contains all the necessary mechanisms to regenerate whatever it needs, when it needs it. All it requires from you and the environment are the water, temps and nutrients for it to do what it "knows" to do. Over time, you will learn what roses do well where you are in what form. I respect Pickering as a business and as a rose supplier. I don't buy from them because their root stock does not do well in my soil, water and conditions. Multiflora isn't happy here, not even as a plant on its own. Anything with too strong a multiflora influence suffers and simply doesn't perform as it should. That goes for anything budded to a strongly multiflora type root stock as well as own root roses possessing that influence. For budded plant roots, Dr. Huey and Fortuniana do better here. If what I want will perform well here own root, and I can get it, that's what I will go with. If it's only available budded to a suitable stock for my conditions, then that's fine, too. I hate killing a plant, so I won't buy one budded to an unsuitable stock simply to propagate it then dump the unsuitable plant. (of course unpatented types only!) So, I'll just keep an eye out for possible cuttings down the road and work on other things. I have propagated two flats of stocks to bud some of what I already grow to improve their performance here. Even though they are alive and grow a bit, I'm sure they would be much better garden plants with more vigor. That's what budding can help provide. It all depends on a number of variables. Kim |
You can change the water once a week or I like to put a tiny bit of bleach in it to keep it from getting funky. I am moving a lot of roses, and when I dig them up, most of the long roots have to get cut. As long as you have some root stock on there, they should be ok. |
- Posted by RachaelLemmon 5 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 9, 14 at 19:40
Ok thanks guys... I can always count on the people here every year for the best advice, and I am learning more and more. On a brighter note, I just checked on my cuttings that I rooted last year and beneath the leaves and mulch I covered them with , they are green with bright red buds even after this frigid winter in upstate . I'm so excited! Baby steps ;-) I'm a work in progress ... |
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Hanowski, LeBlanc Report to NHL
Seniors Ben Hanowski and Drew LeBlanc saw their careers in the cardinal red, black and white end at the NCAA Frozen Four on Thursday in Pittsburgh. However, their hockey season will continue. Both have signed NHL contracts. Hanowski is now a member of the Calgary Flames organization while LeBlanc will report to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Hanowski will make his NHL debut tonight (Monday) as the Calgary Flames host the Minnesota Wild. He'll be wearing the number 58 jersey. Hanowski was a Pittsburgh draft pick until March 27 when the Flames and Penguins made a trade for Jarome Iginla in return for Hanowski and Yale forward Kenny Agostino. Hanowski inked a contract with the Flames on Friday morning after the Huskies ended their season with a 4-1 loss to Quinnipiac in the Frozen Four. Hanowski has signed a two-year entry-level contract with the organization with an annual value of $900,000.
**Update** In the game on Monday night Ben Hanowski netted his first NHL goal. The Flames fell to the Wild by a final score of 4-3.
LeBlanc, a NHL free agent, announced on Friday evening following acceptance of the Hobey Baker that he had signed with the Chicago Blackhawks. It's a one-year deal and he will wear number 14 during his tenure with the team. LeBlanc tweeted earlier today "I appreciate everyone wishing me luck in tonight's game, but I'll be a spectator for a while before I get to play." Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates during the start of the two legendary Huskies NHL careers as well as other news and notes about SCSU hockey.
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Dedicated duo set to close Barrow shop for last time
Last updated at 16:54, Thursday, 29 November 2012
OLWYN Kirk and Sheila Moon have devoted the best part of the past four decades to raising money for charity.
But next month they will close the doors to their Scott Street shop Charité for the final time to begin well-deserved retirements.
They have donated more than £40,000 to countless charities and organisations raised from the sale of second-hand clothes, shoes and accessories.
However, as much as they have cherished their time together in the Barrow store, as well as their interactions with loyal customers, the two women are saying goodbye.
"We've had a lot of fun," Mrs Kirk said. "We never thought we'd still be here after all these years. But we've been thinking about retirement for the last three to six months. When we first opened we were the only charity store in Barrow. Now, they are everywhere. Takeaways and charity shops are everywhere in Barrow."
Their involvement in charity shops began with a store in Buccleuch Street raising money for the Sue Ryder foundation before they moved into their current Scott Street premises.
The idea's success was built around a simple premise whereby half of the profits from the sale of the clothes went to the donator and the other half to charity.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, various health groups and local volunteer emergency services are just some of the regular recipients of cheques from Charité.
But one of their fondest memories was a significant donation to the Evening Mail in 1991 to help sponsor a guide dog for the blind.
"We had the most gorgeous picture of us out the front giving the editor of the Evening Mail the money and it was on the front page," said Mrs Kirk, who had three children with her late husband Dr David Kirk.
Barrow shopper Joan Stevens is a regular visitor to the store and said its imminent closure on December 20 would leave a significant gap in the local retail sector.
"All the clothes at the other stores are for young people," she said.
"It's so hard to find clothes for older people. I will miss it. You always see nice things in here."
Mrs Moon, who has two children with well-known local accountant Gerald Moon, said she and Mrs Kirk would like to thank all the people who contributed to their success.
"We have had many wonderful volunteers donate their time over the years and we are very grateful," she said.
"We will miss our customers, but we have had a great time. Things aren't as easy anymore because of the recession and I think a lot of people buy and sell on eBay now."
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- 1/2 bunch broccoli or 1/2 head cauliflower, chopped, or 6 to 8 Brussels sprouts
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Combine broccoli, or other vegetable, and water in soup kettle, bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer 20 minutes or until tender. Drain, reserving liquid. Set vegetables aside. Melt butter in heavy saucepan, sprinkle with flour, and blend with whisk over low heat; do not brown. Add hot stock and reserved vegetable cooking liquid and stir until smooth. Add reserved vegetables and simmer, partially covered, 15 minutes. Press mixture through food mill. Return to kettle. Add cream and season with salt and pepper. Reheat but do not boil. Garnish with chopped walnuts. (Also good cold.)Updated Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
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Students go back to school across the nation
Kids across the nation will be tested in new ways in 2012-13 year
CLEARFIELD — Nine-year-old Emma Turpin wore a white skirt with black butterflies to her fourth grade class at Antelope Elementary School in Clearfield on Friday, complemented by a black top, yellow earrings and a tote bag that looks like a purse.
"She's a girly girl," said Emma's mother, Emily Turpin. "She always has her hair done in curls, and she wants to look nice."
Antelope Elementary follows a year-round school schedule necessitated by rampant growth in the suburbs between Salt Lake City and Ogden, so Emma's school track started earlier this month. For her older brothers — Connor, 15, and Matthew, 12 — school opens on today, right after Labor Day.
The Turpin kids join 49.8 million students in public schools this year, from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. It will cost $571 billion to educate them, or $11,467 per pupil. School reforms in key areas mean kids across the nation will be taught and tested in new ways during the 2012-13 school year.
Changing landscape
As an ardent believer in school volunteerism, Emily Turpin is Antelope Elementary's PTA president, and she also lends her piano skills to accompany choir concerts at Clearfield Jr. High. Being involved at school helps her understand what school is like for her children and gives her a close-up view of school trends.
She is pleased by recent developments that have created new learning options in her children's public schools. Connor, who is sophomore class president at Clearfield High, made room in his school schedule for his student government class, and a released-time religious instruction class, by taking driver's education and health classes online last summer.
Utah's new Electronic High School, a digital delivery system for high school courses available to students throughout the year, made it possible. Connor's mom said the online classes he took worked out well, but she's not sure the format will work for all students or all subjects.
"You have to be really self-motivated,'" Emily Turpin said. "It puts a lot more responsibility on the students to read the material and study."
The biggest change for Matthew is that his classes in Clearfield Junior's honors program will be following the nation's Common Core State Standards for the first time, Turpin said.
An orientation meeting promised that under Common Core, classes would focus on life skills instead of rote problems. Turpin is concerned about the tougher math that track students will have to do, even though Matthew has always been a good student. Because the Common Core standards have not been aligned to the ACT and SAT tests that Matthew will take in a few years, she worries that he won't be properly prepared.
"Until you actually have a child in it, I don't know if you know what (Common Core curriculum) really means when it comes to day-to-day homework," she said. "It's one of my biggest apprehensions. We don't really know what that thing looks like."
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The move to Common Core State Standards is one of the five biggest issues in education this year, according to the Council of State Governments. Forty-six states and the District of Columbia are implementing the standards and moving toward assessments that more accurately measure student progress as part of a national school reform effort to provide consistent accountability in U.S. schools.
The states that have not adopted the standards are Alaska, Texas, Nebraska and Virginia. (Minnesota approved the English language arts standards, but not the mathematics standards.)
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War in Ukraine Feeds a War of Words in the U.S.
As we mark the centenary of the Great War this month, the crisis in eastern Ukraine continues to spiral out of control with no end to the bloodshed in sight. The fourth, and most recent, report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, covering the period between June 5 and July 15 2014, makes for depressing reading. Among many other findings, the report notes that most of the casualties between the 10th and 15th of July "have been the result of intense shelling of villages, towns and cities, the so-called 'collateral damage' to the fighting that is taking place in and around population centers…there has not been sufficient precaution taken to preventing death and injury to civilians."
The report documents a series of "egregious human rights abuses" committed by the rebels in the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as well as a growing humanitarian crisis within Ukraine. According to the report, as of July 15, there were nearly 87,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), the majority of whom are women and children. The report documents a burgeoning backlash against the wave of IDP's flooding western villages and towns "in particular, on social media, further dividing opinions between east and west."
The report continues, lamenting the fact that "people trapped in areas controlled by the armed groups continue to be killed as the heavy shelling continues from both sides." Yet, "neither side expressed any public willingness to come together to discuss a negotiated peace" though Ukrainian President Poroshenko has agreed to restore the ceasefire he abandoned on July 1 on conditions that would essentially disarm the rebels and hobble the flow of men and weaponry from Russia.
More worrying still are reports that Russia is in the process of abandoning the landmark 1987 INF Treaty. According to Professor Tom Nichols, "Moscow may be coming back to theater-range nuclear weapons as some sort of imagined equalizer against NATO … This is the Kremlin's bizarre strategy of 'nuclear de-escalation', in which the use of just a few nuclear weapons convinces a putative 'aggressor' to back off." This scenario is not so very far-fetched. Consider the following. What if, using the Responsibility-to-Protect doctrine as international legal cover, Putin decides, following the example NATO set in Libya in 2011, to institute a no-fly zone over Donetsk and Luhansk? Would NATO overtly send troops into Ukraine as a response, and if so what then? It is worth noting that in addition to what Professor Nichols tell us, that Moscow dropped its "no first-use" nuclear weapons policy in 1993. According to one estimate, Russia has roughly 1,800 operational tactical nuclear weapons.
All the while, the latest round of salvos in what Russia scholar Gilbert Doctorow has quite rightly described as an "uncivil war of words" over the crisis in Ukraine have continued to be fired. In June, a conference put together by Moscow State University Professor Ed Lozansky to discuss the current state of U.S.-Russian relations was ridiculed by a neoconservative activist as little more than a "pity party for the Kremlin's die-hard American apologists" insinuating that the participants were little more than a motley band of anti-Semites and 9/11 "truthers." Read More…
Scooter Libby & Paul Wolfowitz to Teach Iraq "Decision-Making"
When the below item first came across my inbox, I thought it was a pretty clever bit of satire. After a couple of inquiries, however, it turns out that you really can't make this stuff up:
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I work for the Hertog Foundation, an educational philanthropy in New York City. We are offering two seminars this fall in New York City and Jerusalem that I believe might be of interest to SAIS alumni.
- The first program, a weeklong study of the Iraq War, will be led by Paul Wolfowitz (AEI) and Lewis Libby (Hudson Institute), and will take place from October 27-31, 2014 in NYC.
- The second will be led by William Kristol (Weekly Standard) in Jerusalem, and will examine the idea of nationalism and its future.
The Advanced Institutes offer promising individuals, from a broad range of academic and professional backgrounds, an opportunity to engage with leading thinkers and practitioners. They are an important part of the Hertog Foundation's mission to advance serious discussion of issues of public policy and political theory.
Details for the institute and how to apply can be found at hertogfoundation.org. All come with a stipend to cover travel, lodging, and time. The application deadline is August 1, 2014.
I hope you will share this email with outstanding candidates who might be interested. I would be glad to answer any questions you might have.
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One has to wonder what lessons will be gleaned from rubbing shoulders with such luminaries as the convicted felon Libby (5 counts) and the brilliant architect of the second Iraq war cum ousted World Bank president Wolfowitz. The promotional material for their weeklong (weeklong!) program tells us:
The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 quickly removed the regime that had repeatedly defied America and gave Iraqis a chance to devise their own future. However, the war soon devolved into a messy combination of insurgency and sectarian fighting that brought thousands of U.S. casualties, sapped American will and credibility, and worked to the benefit of America's other regional nemesis, Iran.
Well, that's actually a surprisingly forthright assessment considering the source—though it leaves out a few things that came about because of the war, such as the 300,000 or more American veterans who now suffer from brain injuries; the roughly 600,000 dead Iraqis (mainly non-combatants); the estimated 3,500,000 to 5,000,000 Iraqis who became displaced persons; the 4,500,000 children who are now orphans in Iraq; and the $3,000,000,000,000 it cost U.S. taxpayers to accomplish all this.
Prospective participants are then told:
These events occurred not in isolation, but against the backdrop of broader international developments, particularly the ending of the Cold War, the attacks of 9/11/2001, and the on-going U.S. confrontation with radical Islam.
So I guess Libby and Wolfowitz are planning to put the decade-long (and counting!) disaster into to its proper global "context"; they'll dust off some of the classic IR texts and tell the assembled that, yeah, maybe it didn't work out the way we told everyone, and true, perhaps we were a little less-than-forthright about the reasons we decided to roll the dice and risk the lives and limbs of hundreds of thousands of our young servicemen and women, but hey, part of the reason we failed was "structural," the end of the Cold War, and all that.
It should make for a fascinating week in New York.
James Carden is a TAC contributing editor, and served as an advisor to the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at the State Department from 2011-2012.
Yatsenyuk's Resignation Topples an Obama Ally in Ukraine
With the news that Arseniy Yatsenyuk tendered his resignation as Ukraine's Prime Minister, a once meteoric career has come to a crashing halt. In the U.S., Yatsenyuk gained widespread notoriety when a conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador in Kiev was leaked by, presumably, Russian intelligence. On it, Ms. Nuland expressed her certainty, in positively breathy tones, that "Yats" would make an ideal Prime Minister. As so, once the coup transpired in February, it came to pass.
In gaining the Premiership, Yatsenyuk made a deal with the devil, doing nothing to quell the violence that engulfed the Maidan after the Western and Russian-backed settlement agreement of February 21 was announced. Here we might pause to note that pronouncements from pro-democracy activists like Freedom House's David Kramer and pop-philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy that Putin is entirely to blame for the violence in Ukraine, should be greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism.
After the February coup Yatsenyuk quickly threw in his lot in with the gang around the far-right Svoboda and became, quite illegitimately, prime minister. The far-right was compensated handsomely. Svoboda, whose leader Oleh Tyahnybok once voiced dissatisfaction that Ukraine was being run by a "Muscovite-Jewish mafia," was amply rewarded, gaining the defense ministry and the prosecutor general's office, along with two non-power ministries like Agriculture and Environment. The government promptly removed the governors of the pro-Russian eastern provinces and put a number of oligarchs in their stead. The reaction to all of this by the citizens of these provinces, and that of their rather large, influential, and, yes, bare-knuckled, neighbor to the east is now all too plain to see.
Having captured the top prize, Yatsenyuk did what any self-respecting free-riding Atlanticist would do: he dashed off to Washington for meetings with President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. The President, for his part, authorized a $1 billion loan guarantee (about $14 billion shy of what Vladimir Putin put on offer the previous November) and urged Russia and Ukraine to turn to diplomacy to settle their differences. That was not to be, yet the new Premier's strenuous efforts to drag the U.S. into a war his government bears a good deal of responsibility for starting have, for the most part, come to naught.
Yatsenyuk's economic record mirrors his diplomatic one. The month he took office the Hryvnia lost a fifth of its value, and Yatsenyuk recently announced he expects the Ukrainian economy to shrink by 3 percent in 2014. It is said that the signing of the EU-Ukraine association agreement along with the conditions of the IMF's $17 billion loan will launch Ukraine on its predestined European trajectory. Yet, if the experiences of Russia and Argentina, (to say nothing of non-IMF mandated austerity measures in the United Kingdom) are anything to go by, Ukrainians can look forward to many years of mass unemployment, the gutting of their manufacturing and export sectors, the hollowing out of government assistance programs, higher energy bills, higher taxes, and wage freezes. Read More…
Will Global Wilsonians Take Us to War?
While the neocons have rendered themselves ridiculous by either acting like petulant children when called out on their record (see Kristol, William) or dabbling in what amounts to overlong exercises in historical fiction (see Kagan, Robert), the liberal interventionist crowd deserves more scrutiny than they have heretofore been subjected to, because these Wilsonians, unlike their right-wing counterparts, are a not a specifically American phenomenon: the Wilsonians have gone global.
The Canadian scholar-turned-politician Michael Ignateiff channeled his inner Kagan and brought forth a wondrous account of what he sees as a "rising authoritarian archipelago" in last week's issue of the venerable New York Review of Books. Ignatieff, acting in the role of Cassandra, warns us that much like the 1930s when "travelers returned from Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Russia, and Hitler's Germany praising the sense of common purpose they saw there …. democracies today are in the middle of a similar period of envy and despondency."
There is, I think it fair to say, aside from the horrendous shape of the American economy, very little with which to compare the world of 2014 with that of the 1930s, which brought us the demonic Nazi regime, a lunatic Communist one, and the untold misery of millions of people even prior to the opening shots of the World War II. Yet for the Global Wilsonians it's always 1938.
And so, we are darkly warned, that Vladimir Putin's recent visit to China was about far, far more than a mere gas deal, rather, "it heralded the emergence of an alliance off authoritarian states with a combined population of 1.6 billion in the vast Eurasian space." Well, perhaps. But any discussion of why Mr Putin has turned East was, it seems, beyond the scope of Ignatieff's piece.
Over the weekend on a CNN roundtable, another Canadian thinker-turned-MP, Chrystia Freeland, struck back hard at the Council on Foreign Relations chair Richard Haas for having the audacity to suggest the U.S. and the EU are at least partially responsible for the turmoil rollicking the Near East in their eagerness to topple autocratic regimes like Qaddafi's and Mubarak's, without giving sufficient thought to what may replace them. Freeland seems to think that this kind of second-guessing is really most unhelpful to the Global Wilsonian project of worldwide democratization. Message: don't look back.
Moving on from our Canadian Globalists, the Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt was in town last week at the invitation of the Atlantic Council. Bildt, as is by now widely known, was one of the principal architects—along with fellow Global Wilsonian and Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski—of the European Union's Eastern Partnership project which aims to incorporate six of the former Soviet states into the EU. Bildt, much like Ignateiff, looks at the world and sees nothing but trouble, trouble, trouble. (Maybe we should call them the Taylor Swift caucus?)
Bildt noted, "new dangers and challenges seem to be rising wherever we look … these are not easy times, and they call for clear headed strategic assessment of the challenges we are facing." No doubt, but if the audience was expecting such an assessment to follow, they were mistaken. Read More…
Mitt Romney Was Wrong All Along
Further evidence that the Republican Party still ought not to be trusted with guiding U.S. foreign policy comes courtesy of former Romney campaign foreign policy director Alex Wong. Wong, in a Politico essay that nicely captures the new Romney-friendly zeitgeist, tells us that Mitt was actually right all along; that his positions with regard to Syria, Russia, and Iran were far more astute and "clear eyed" than was generally appreciated at the time.
Wong notes:
Perhaps the clearest example of Obama's failure to recognize a strategic competitor is the case of Russia. Mere months before the president first came into office, Russia had invaded its neighbor Georgia, sending an unmistakable message about the manner in which the Kremlin did business. By then, Vladimir Putin's Russia had already accumulated a deplorable record on human rights and democratic governance—and it was getting worse. Russia has long used its vast energy resources as a cudgel to coerce other countries. And throughout Obama"s presidency, the Kremlin has routinely stood in the way of international pressure on both the Assad regime and the ayatollahs in Tehran.
Where to begin? As I and many others have repeatedly noted, it was neoconservative puppet-turned Tufts University Senior Statesman Mikheil Saakashvili who provoked the 2008 war with Russia by shelling Russian ethnic enclaves in South Ossetia. So Wong begins with a faulty premise, and then pivots to a criticism of Putin's domestic record with regard to "human rights" and "governance." This conflation is common. Republicans like Wong, against all evidence, really do seem to take the tenants of Democratic Peace Theory—the idea that a regime's internal affairs can predict their approach toward external ones—seriously.
Wong then goes on to note that Putin has "stood in the way" of efforts by the international community to pressure both Syria and Iran. Well that's one way of looking at it. Here's another: as regards Syria, it was Putin who actually pressured his client Assad to work with the U.S. and Russia to gather and destroy his chemical weapons stockpile, thereby saving Obama from having to follow through on his fantastically reckless "red line" ultimatum. Had he not done so, it is entirely possible the U.S. would now be embroiled in yet another war in the Near East, a war that hawks like Wong and his former boss were all too eager in which to embroil us.
As concerns Iran, please consider the following from the nonpartisan International Institute for Strategic Studies nonproliferation expert Mark Fitzpatrick:
Amid ongoing tensions over Ukraine, it is worth noting that Russia continues to cooperate closely with the West over Iran. Far from using the Iran issue to retaliate against US and European sanctions, as Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov ill-advisedly warned it might in mid-March, Russia has helped bolster the US position on the most sensitive aspect of the Iran negotiations: demands for cutbacks in the centrifuge programme. (emphasis added)
As Gov. Rick Perry might say: Oops. Read More…
Bergdahl, Manning, and the Overextended National Security State
The contretemps over the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been occasion for a raft of commentary taking President Obama's lack of competence as the defining feature of the affair. And while there is certainly ample cause to call into question the merits of the deal with the Taliban, the wisdom of Mr. Obama's highly misleading press conference with the Sergeant's parents, and the subsequent reappearance of the wondrous Susan Rice on the Sunday morning talk shows, to my mind the most troubling aspect of the Bergdahl affair has to do with how someone so obviously troubled made his way into the ranks in the first place.
Like the deeply troubled Pfc. Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning before him, Bergdahl should never have been accepted into the ranks in the first place. He was admitted into the Army largely because an incompetent President, going against the wishes of the country, decided to double down on an ill-conceived and grossly mismanaged war. The story of how Bergdahl, who was discharged from the Coast Guard for psychological reasons in 2006, found his way back into what we are endlessly told is the greatest military in the history of the world, is profoundly discouraging. The Washington Post reports that by 2008, the year Bergdahl enlisted, the Army was issuing waivers to those with criminal backgrounds, health issues, and "other problems" at the rate of one for every five recruits. This perhaps points to a larger problem, reaching beyond the armed services.
The post-9/11 national security state, which consists of at least 17 federal intelligence agencies and organizations, requires hundreds of thousands of individuals to staff it. In light of the cases of Messrs. Manning, Snowden, and Bergdahl, it has become increasingly clear that the government has created a significant problem for itself. This was bound to happen given the sheer numbers involved. Consider the following from the groundbreaking 2010 report by the Post's Dana Priest and William Arkin:
- Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
- An estimated 854,000 people, nearly one-and-a-half times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.
Four years on, the number of security clearances issued has continued apace. According to a report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence this past April, from 2012-13 the number of people deemed "eligible" for access to classified information increased by nearly a quarter of a million people. Roughly 5.15 million people currently hold security clearances, out of which around a million are outside contractors, about half of whom hold a top-secret clearance.
The conversation that needs to be going on should be focused on whether the national security structure, as it stands right now, is actually supportable. The Bergdahl affair ought to serve as a warning that as we keep expanding the military and enlarging the intelligence apparatus, the law of diminishing returns will (and probably has) set in. Yet no one in Washington ever thinks to say: enough. It's past time for Congress to reconsider the efficacy, to say nothing of the desirability, of the post-9/11 national security leviathan.
What Julia Ioffe Got Wrong About Stephen Cohen
The New Republic's resident Russia hand Julia Ioffe has penned a pretty extraordinary piece on TNR's website attacking NYU Professor emeritus and Nation contributor Stephen F. Cohen's latest article on U.S.-Russia policy, which he co-authored with his wife Katrina vanden Heuvel. Cohen, perhaps the country's foremost scholar of Russian studies, certainly doesn't need my help in defending himself against what amounts to a scurrilous—and frankly hysterical—ad hominem attack on his work and character.
The premise of the Cohen/vanden Heuvel piece is pretty straightforward: the administration, via Peter Baker's excellent piece of reporting in the April 19 edition of the New York Times, announced what amounts to a pretty major shift in U.S. policy toward Russia: it will aim to "isolate" Russia and make it a "pariah state." Cohen and vanden Heuvel argue that such a shift—given its serious implications for U.S. foreign policy going forward—has been accompanied by disturbingly little public debate; and they correctly point out that what little debate there has been on the issue, it has been one-sided at best.
Now, whatever you think of the administration's new policy—and as I wrote last week, I think very little of it—it is unarguable that 1) a policy which aims to make Russia a "pariah" state is indeed a significant departure from the previous policy of détente or reset, and 2) in the main, Cohen is correct in pointing out that the debate as being carried out on the major networks, cable outlets, and establishment press has been pretty stilted.
All in all, I have to say, as someone who has been following the debate fairly closely, the Cohen-vanden Heuvel thesis is pretty reasonable and was put forth in a similarly reasonable fashion. So what sort of confounds me is Ioffe's virulent reaction to it. Was it triggered by the fact that Cohen cited The New Republic as one of the offending mainstream media outlets? That can't be it. Was it the fact that he had previously criticized Ioffe's TNR cover story of February 17th and this is payback time? Doubtful.
It's useless to speculate, but, I must admit to being puzzled by the tenor of TNR's coverage of Russia and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Ioffe, along with the lamentable Leon Wieseltier, has taken a pretty hard-line stand against what she views as Vladimir Putin's revanchist foreign policy. And that's fine, as far as it goes, but it leaves out a good deal, as when Ioffe writes:
It doesn't seem to matter that NATO accession was not really on the table for Ukraine (just look at its military performance in recent weeks) and neither was EU accession because—warning: another meaningless detail!—Ukraine is a financial basket case, even worse than the basket cases the EU is already dealing with. It doesn't matter to Cohen that both issues were matters of great debate inside that insignificant detail named Ukraine, and that the fact of their potential smuggling into this or that union might be something to be decided inside Ukraine, a sovereign and independent country trying in vain to regain its own territory captured by masked Russian gunmen.
Seems to me there are a few things to, as Ioffe would say, "unpack" here. It's a bit disingenuous to claim that Ukrainian accession to NATO was never really in the cards. If that's true, then what was the purpose of section 2.3 of the EU-Ukraine association agenda which, among other things would have required the signatories to: Read More…
Ukraine Learns the Problem With Revolutions
When the old order begins to fall apart, many of the vociferous men of words, who prayed so long for the day, are in a funk – Eric Hoffer, True Believer
The news of late out of eastern Ukraine is laden with irony. Those of us possessed of a realist disposition—I use the term "disposition" advisedly, for as the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr noted in his essay "Augustine's Political Realism," definitions of realists "emphasize disposition, rather than doctrines"—are not terribly surprised that the recently installed regime in Kiev has set in motion a revolution it now finds itself unable to control. As history shows, that's the trouble with revolutions: once begun, efforts to predict—much less control—their path are often fruitless.
What we are seeing taking place in the eastern provinces of Ukraine shouldn't be terribly surprising, after all—the erroneous, yet seductive phrase "one Ukrainian people" that has been uttered over and over again by American and European diplomats, was always a fiction. So the new regime in Kiev finds itself in an analogous position to the one the Yanukovych government found itself in late 2013-early 2014; it faces popular dissatisfaction that expresses itself in the street (we have thankfully—thus far anyway—been spared the term "the Ukrainian street").
There are a few differences between the oft-praised Euro-Maidan and the pro-Russian demonstrations now taking place across the East; the first being that the latter have actually been peaceful (so far). The nature of the regimes against which the respective protests were aimed are different as well; one, Yanukovych's, was democratically elected in 2010, the government headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk (or, as he was referred to in honeyed tones by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, "Yats") was imposed by acts of violence and coercion. Another difference can be spotted in the reactions of the American media to the two movements. Proving the American media is nothing if not nimble, solidarity for the aspirations of the "Ukrainian people" during the Maidan riots has now morphed—in nary a blink of an eye—to scorn for protesters in the east who are obviously tools of the Kremlin.
And so if the protagonists of the Ukrainian revolution and their Western cheerleaders aren't "in a funk," perhaps they ought to be, for developments are not proving very favorable at present. In addition to the restive populations in urban centers like Donetsk and Kharkiv, Vladimir Putin is playing a strong hand well. He recently issued a letter to 18 European leaders urging them to provide Ukraine with financial assistance to avoid a shutdown of Russian gas supplies to Europe; economic leverage is joined by military leverage: Russia has amassed over 40,000 troops on its western border with Ukraine; and last but not least, Russia is busy consolidating its hold over Crimea. Indeed, this week the Russian government announced it was exploring the possibility of investing upwards of $1 billion toward developing the Crimean wine industry. Read More…
Obama's Very Bad Brussels Speech
Since the end of the Second World War, the boom-bust nature of U.S.-Russian relations has in many respects been its defining characteristic. The current crisis has several antecedents, many of which were more dangerous than the situation we now find ourselves facing.
The most well-known Cold War confrontations between the U.S. and Russia were also the earliest: the face-off over Berlin that resulted in a successful 11 month airlift in 1948-9, and the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962. Later "close calls" would occur at roughly 10-year intervals until the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. In response to Brezhnev's threat to send Russian troops to Egypt during the Yom Kippur War, in October 1973 Henry Kissinger, filling in for an incapacitated Richard Nixon, brought U.S. military forces to the level of DEFCON III, which put U.S. strategic nuclear forces on high alert. In 1983 Russian intelligence wrongly mistook NATO preparations for an exercise (operation Able Archer) for the real thing, putting their nuclear weapons and air units in Poland and East Germany on alert.
The post-Cold War era has also seen its share of close calls. In 1999 Russian and NATO troops faced off at Kosovo's Pristina International Airport. A shooting war was narrowly averted only due to the cool handing of the situation by British Gen. Mike Jackson who defied an order from then-NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark. Clark wanted to block the runways and isolate the Russian troops, yet Jackson told Clark: "I'm not going to start the Third World War for you." And during the Russia-Georgia conflict of 2008, the Bush National Security Council actually considered entering the war on the side of the Georgians.
What makes today's crisis of such moment is that it has the potential to haunt U.S.-Russian relations—and indeed the future of Europe—for decades to come. We are not close to a shooting war with the Russian Federation, yet. What Obama, in concert with Angela Merkel ought to be doing is working towards a settlement that would allow both the Putin government and the new Ukrainian regime to save face. Instead, we got a speech. Read More…
Saakashvili's Anti-Russian Tirade
For almost as long as I can remember anyway, the op-ed page of the New York Times has been a fairly reliable forum for some of the laziest and most predictable writing on international affairs, a better example of which could hardly be found than an essay it published this week entitled "Czar Vladimir's Illusions" by former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Reflecting not so much Putin's illusions but his own, Saakashvili, now a Senior Statesman at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, expends nearly 1200 words in an effort to denigrate Putin and the Sochi Olympics while, with an eye fixed on posterity, attempting to polish up his own rather questionable legacy.
Saakashvili takes the gloves off right away, implying that Russia somehow sanctioned the bloodshed in the streets of Kiev. And while the rest of the world may be sorely tempted to see this as "the hour of triumph for autocrats," Saakashvili cautions us: not so fast. Russia, though oil rich, is likely facing terminal decline because of rampant corruption; in fact, he notes, Russia's economy has been growing at a slower rate than Georgia's for the past nine years.
By way of example, readers are invited to compare and contrast two Black Sea regions adjacent to Sochi: Abkhazia and Adjaria. Abkhazia's capital Sukhumi, which has been under Russian control for the past 5 years, "looks tired and gloomy" compared to the relative paradise of Georgian-controlled Adjaria.
How did Russian control of Abkhazia come about? Well, in his telling, it's awfully straightforward:
When Russia was bidding to be host of the Olympics, it had enthusiastic Georgian support, as we believed holding the Games in Sochi would enhance chances for peace and improve relations. Instead, several months after the Kremlin won its bid to host the Olympics, Russia invaded Georgia.
And though Russia has invested many billions of dollars to stage the Olympic Games in Sochi, what it all really amounts to is a "Potemkin Village" built with the sole purpose of gratifying the insatiable ego of Czar Putin. And if the Czar thinks a successful Olympic Games will work to shore up his popularity, stave off economic malaise, or bring peace to the turbulent region, he is mistaken because Russia's "heavy-handed colonial approach can only antagonize and radicalize the population."
The problem underlying all of this, according to Fletcher's newly minted Senior Statesman, is that Putin is a man obsessed by the fall of the Soviet Union; indeed it "seems he still fails to grasp why it happened." And so Saakashvili concludes: as long as Putin persists in his efforts to "restore the past" the Russia's future prospects will remain dim.
It's a nice story, and he's sticking to it; but that doesn't mean we have to. As regards those "pro-democracy protesters" being gunned down with Russian acquiescence in the streets of Kiev: in his account we get not a word about the protesters who are throwing firebombs at the police; nor of any on the well-documented assaults on off-duty police officers; nor any on the rabidly nationalist and anti-Semitic character the once peaceful movement taken on since January. Read More…


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