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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Concern Over Possible Russian Invasion of Ukraine Still High After Last Week’s Talks: White House

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Emerging Threats

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Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/concern-over-possible-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-still-high-after-last-weeks-talks-white-house_4220847.html

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washingtonon Jan. 14, 2022. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Tuesday that the Biden administration continues to view tensions between Russia and Ukraine as “an extremely dangerous situation.”

This after three rounds of high-level talks last week that included the U.S., Russia and several European countries and were meant to deescalate the situation and find a diplomatic path forward.

Russia has amassed roughly 100,000 troops along its border with Ukraine and in Russian-annexed Crimea in recent weeks. Most recently Russia announced joint military exercises with neighboring Belarus which also shares a border with Ukraine.

“We’re now at a stage where at any point Russia could launch an attack on Ukraine,” said Psaki on Jan. 18.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on Tuesday and the two have agreed to meet in Geneva, Switzerland later this week.

Blinken will travel to Kyiv on Wednesday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and then move on to Berlin before meeting Lavrov Friday, according to the State Department. Officials say the trip is meant as a show of U.S. support for Ukraine and to make another call for Russia to de-escalate and pursue diplomacy.

This will follow a U.S. bipartisan congressional delegation that traveled to Kyiv to meet with Zelensky on Monday to reaffirm U.S. support for Ukraine.

President Joe Biden has spoken directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent weeks. During the calls, Biden said that the United States and its allies would impose severe sanctions against Russia if it further invades.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock traveled to Washington on Jan. 5 to present a unified front with Blinken in saying Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine’s border poses an “immediate and urgent challenge” to European security and that any intervention would draw severe consequences.

Germany has suspended the certification process of the yet-to-be-approved Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would carry 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia to Germany every year if approved by regulators.

Blinken has said gas won’t likely flow through Nord Stream if Russia invades Ukraine.

U.S. officials have also accused Russia of enacting a “false flag operation” and social media campaign to use as pretext for a Ukrainian invasion. Russia has denied this.

Ukrainian officials said Sunday that Russia was behind a cyberattack that defaced Ukrainian government websites.

Last month, Moscow submitted draft security documents demanding that NATO deny membership to Ukraine and other former Soviet countries and roll back its military deployments in Central and Eastern Europe.

On Monday, Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, rejected the U.S. allegations that his country was preparing a pretext to invade Ukraine. Speaking to reporters, he dismissed the U.S. claim as “total disinformation.”

Lavrov reaffirmed that Russia expects a written response this week from the United States and its allies to Moscow’s request for binding guarantees that NATO will not embrace Ukraine or any other ex-Soviet countries or station its forces and weapons there.

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