Glen of Riga is unlikely to Grant us an interview on how he steers the Ukrainians - UK Column News

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-16th-december-2022
- Clip—Forces News: Lt-Col (Ret'd) Glen Grant on the fierce fight for Bakhmut
- Alex Thomson analysis: Grant is talking up the prospects of Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group (Russian private military company), supposedly preparing to mount a palace coup against Putin
- Brian Gerrish commentary: Notably, Grant is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Statecraft, a London-based deep state think tank
- Baltic Security Foundation (founded 2019)
- Glen Grant as part of Baltic Security Foundation
- Patrick Henningsen: This is the deep state's parallel academia, made up of government- and arms industry-funded figures who wouldn't make it in real academia
- Brian Gerrish analysis: Grant, a resolute Russia-container, has worked with the national military commands of most of the countries along Russia's western flank, as well as that of Chile; he has also reformed Ukrainian defence housing and has co-founded a political party in his adopted homeland, Latvia—a bit odd for a Sandhurst man
- UK Column coverage of the Institute for Statecraft and its Integrity Initiative goes back years
- Transparency International: Poor governance and corruption in Ukraine defence housing system (2018)
- Brian Gerrish commentary: Despite Grant's ministrations, abuses in Ukrainian troop housing persist, particularly around Odessa
- UK Government: Government call for project proposals to support defence reforms in Ukraine (2019)
- UkrOboronProm, vast Ukrainian arms exporter
- Brian Gerrish analysis: The UK Government embedded itself in Ukrainian arms production and ramped it up for a war that it knew was coming
- Patrick Henningsen analysis: Ukraine has very little sovereignty left and this is another indicator of how little
- Lt-Col Grant also involved with "independent" think tank, Ukrainian Institute for the Future
- Report by UIF testifies to premonition: How can Ukraine prepare for the crisis? (March 2020, supposedly only about an economic crisis)
Ukraine Democracy Initiative
- Brian Gerrish commentary: Ukraine is now riddled with such Western-coordinated initiatives
- Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research has George Soros' International Renaissance Foundation as a donor
- Alex Thomson analysis: The British excel at turning Eastern Europeans into change agents
- Patrick Henningsen analysis: This is another round of the Baltic and the Balkans being used as buffer zones; the local residents will be the victims of any escalation shifting north
- Back to Ukraine Democracy Initiative: "We speak, we envision, we enact democracy for Ukraine"
“At the heart of the initiative is a dedicated global network of academics, field experts, civic activists, pro-democracy groups, policy-makers and citizens concerned with the future of democracy [...] Ukraine emerging as globally significant testing ground for new political trends”
- Brian Gerrish question: Who funds UDI as it makes Ukraine a mind-bending experiment nation?
- Clip—F35 crash at Fort Worth, Texas
- Iain Davis launches a new UK Column two-part article: Who Wants a Multipolar World Order?—Part I
Alex Thomson and Patrick Henningsen commentary: There is room at UK Column for discussion of many interpretations of how the blocs fit together in the multipolar era that has obviously now dawned; sovereignty is affected by some commodities becoming scarcer as others become more abundant