Exclusive: With Libya’s bloody “regime change” in 2011, the Obama administration and its European allies opened the door to anarchy and now the emergence of another Islamic State terror affiliate, but chaos and indecision continue to dominate the West’s reaction to the crisis, says Andres Cala.

In his article for The National Interest, Eurasia policy expert Paul J. Saunders argues that expert analysis of the Ukraine crisis will require scrutiny in order to avoid disastrous and expensive policy outcomes, adding that post-Maidan Ukraine's continued misery is the result of Western leaders' inability to make a genuine commitment to Kiev.

On June 22, the European Union has extended economic sanctions against Russia until January 31, 2016. The sanctions targeted Moscow’s defense, energy and banking sectors, as well as several individuals.

The United States and Russia are about to usher in an era of a new nuclear arms race, Professor Edward Lozansky warns, adding that by "punishing" Russia for its stance over Ukraine, Washington is shooting itself in the foot.

He said it was absolutely clear that behind the "destabilization project in Ukraine was an attempt to create an instrument to weaken Russia dramatically"

During the meeting with Russian Deputy FM Grigory Karasin in Germany Victoria Nuland has confirmed, that the US is not interested in further escalation of the Ukraine crisis. Israeli publicist Avigdor Eskin told Radio Sputnik, that one of the top US diplomats has changed her rhetoric and begun to talk differently with Russian partners.

In Ukraine the Pentagon is re-enacting its Vietnam War-era scenario of “containing Communism”, a Polish newspaper wrote on Thursday.

The European Union is seeking to become an empire as the United States by trying to create its own sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, lawyer and political analyst Andreas Wehr told Sputnik.

As the pressure mounts with the drawing deadline for Greece to repay IMF a large sum of money, the head of IMF is escalating the situation by extending financial support to Ukraine amid the EU economic tension.

President Petro Poroshenko's intention to ask the Ukrainian constitutional court to recognize the ousting of former President Viktor Yanukovych as illegitimate is aimed to "prepare the ground for his own future," a representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the Minsk peace talks said.

The United States has a major challenge to tackle in Baltimore, yet it chooses to turn away from dealing with spiraling violence at home and instead act tough in its foreign policy, a US journalist said. This the wrong kind of tough.