Highly recommended – The Strategic Significance of the Black Sea Region
It is recommended you take the time to click on the link below and watch the webinar that was conducted earlier today.
Today's webinar was moderated by LTG (Ret) Ben Hodges, Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies and CEPA, and I take the liberty of adding Ben is a member of the Foundation’s Friends of Ukraine Network (FOUN).
Ben’s discussion is with an expert panel – Glen Howard, President of the Jamestown Foundation (also a member of FOUN), Leonela Leca, Researcher, Global Studies Center, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Don Lothrop, Founder, RomaniaOne, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, U.S. Navy; Executive Director, Cyberspace Solarium Commission; and Ambassador Kurt Volker, Distinguished Fellow, CEPA.
I urge you to watch, there many important points made including about the possible Russian reaction to severe water situation in Ukraine this summer.
Over the last few weeks there have been several webinars on the subject of the strategic importance of the Black Sea, two presented by the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation and its Friends of Ukraine Network (FOUN). Both of those are available through the Foundation website usukraine.org.
Ukraine and the Black Sea region can and should be seen as “ground zero” in global competition between Russia, China and the United States. As Ben has said a number of times, if we fully engage the competition we will be able to avoid confrontation.
