Adeyinka Makinde
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Personal Website (http://adeyinkamakinde.homestead.com/)
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... on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AdeyinkaMakinde)
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Academia.edu entry (https://westminster.academia.edu/AdeyinkaMakinde)
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Articles by Adeyinka Makinde published by Global Research (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/adeyinka-makinde)
Adeyinka Makinde trained for the law as a barrister. He lectures in criminal law and public law at a university in London, UK, and has an academic research interest in intelligence & security matters. He is a contributor to a number of websites for which he has written essays and commentaries on international relations, politics and military history. He has served as a programme consultant and provided expert commentary for BBC World Service Radio, China Radio International and the Voice of Russia.
Items of particular note
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"NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard", US National Security Archive, George Washington University (12 December 2017) (Wayback Machine capture)
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Jacques Baud, "The Military Situation in The Ukraine", The Postil Magazine (April 2022)
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Jacques Baud interviewed on The Grayzone (12 April 2022) (https://odysee.com/@TheGrayzone:c/us,-eu-sacrificing-ukraine-to-'weaken:c)
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"Extending Russia : Competing from Advantageous Ground", RAND Corporation (2019) [See in particular Chapter 4, "Geopolitical Measures : Measure 1 - Provide Lethal Aid to Ukraine", pp 96 - 103]
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"Overextending and Unbalancing Russia : Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options", RAND Corporation (2019)
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Notes to the first interview with Dr Paul Craig Roberts (many of which are relevant here)
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Guy Standing, "The US and UK made Russia's invasion of Ukraine possible. I saw it happen", Other News (25 April 2022)
- George Barros, "The West Overestimates Aleksandr Dugin’s Influence in Russia", Providence Magazine (08 July 2019)
Other items mentioned in / relevant to the conversation
[For those concerned by the number of Wikipedia references, please note that these are given simply for convenience, not because TMR can vouch for the accuracy of any of the entries. Interested listeners are advised to use these links as beginning points only, reading critically and in conjunction with other sources of information.]
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War Plan Red (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red)
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Halford Mackinder (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halford_Mackinder)
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Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Basic Books (September 18, 1998)
- Frederick Kagan with Jordan Peterson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys2zTL-b3eE)
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Kristina Spohr, "Exposing the myth of Western betrayal of Russia over NATO’s eastern enlargement", LSE Blog (02 March 2022)
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"NATO and Nuclear Weapons", Acronym Institute (http://www.acronym.org.uk/old/archive/nato/briefing.htm)
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Steven Pifer, "US nukes in Poland are a truly bad idea", Brookings Institution (18 May 2020)
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Mike Whitney, “The Crisis In Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine: It’s About Germany – OpEd”, Eurasia Review (16 February 2022)
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"Azov fighter video overshadows Zelenskiy's address to Greek lawmakers", Reuters (07 April 2022)
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C14 (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S14_(Ukrainian_group))
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Holodomor (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor)
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William J Burns: "Nyet means nyet"
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Kirill Kalinin (2019), "Neo-Eurasianism and the Russian elite: the irrelevance of Aleksandr Dugin’s geopolitics", Post-Soviet Affairs, 35:5-6, 461-470, DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2019.1663050
Acknowledgements, Copyright & Disclaimers
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The opinions expressed by Adeyinka Makinde are his responsibility alone; they do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mind Renewed.
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Podcast music: Chillout Me by Antony Raijekov (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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