American Committee for US-Russia Accord

There are two main justifications for European rearmament. The first, and arguably the most important, is that President Trump has demanded it. Historically, the United States has contributed about 70 percent of NATO’s budget. Europe’s rearmament is in part a response to his demand that it pay its “fair share.” This goes in hand with the feeling that the US is poised to disengage from Europe—partly because of Trump’s desire to do business with Putin, partly because of the American pivot on the challenge of China. The two, of course, are linked in the current American geostrategy.

On June 1, Ukraine used swarms of drones hidden in trucks smuggled across Russia’s border to attack one leg of its nuclear triad of missiles, submarines, and aircraft.

This time, the bombing was no joke. But the Western reaction hardly took the prospect of nuclear escalation seriously.

Jeffrey Sachs, economist and U.N. consultant, talks about JFK’s “peace speech” at American University in June 1963 as a unique and powerful vision of America’s role in the world that died on Nov. 22, 1963 with terrible consequences for the country that are evident today.

Georgia is a small country on the border of large powers. Russia has legitimate security concerns, although the efforts by the US and its allies to use Georgia as a proxy raise security concerns. How can Georgia navigate the complex geopolitics that also divide its society?

“Lets us re-examine our attitude toward the Cold War…”

What Kennedy said is still relevant today, says Professor Kuznick.

THE SIMONE WEIL CENTER OFFERS IN WHAT FOLLOWS FOUR PERSPECTIVES ON JOHN F. KENNEDY’S FAMOUS JUNE 10, 1963, SPEECH AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY.  THE AUTHORS – JAMES CARDEN, PETER KUZNICK, PAUL GRENIER AND MATTHEW DAL SANTO – EACH ADDRESS IN TURN ITS POLITICAL, INTERNATIONAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS..

The best way for America’s NATO allies to assist Washington would be to take over their own defense in Europe.

The illusion that Washington has both the right and duty to teach Georgia how to govern itself persists in the American media and in the halls of Congress.

The US Empire is on its last leg and the people in charge have no clue about it, says Macgregor.

The discursive rhetoric President Trump deploys when speaking about Russia and its apex-leader, Mr. Putin, risks lending the impression that once the unfortunate business of the war wraps up, he and Mr. Putin will at last be free to guide US-Russian relations to unimaginable levels of peace, prosperity and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers.

Yet, in point of fact, the war in Ukraine is only one of a number of obstacles toward normalization. The administration should be encouraged to tackle those obstacles, but pretending they don’t exist does no one any favors.

When Sheila Fitzpatrick first went to Moscow in the 1960s as a young academic, the prevailing understanding of the Soviet Union in the West was governed by the ‘totalitarian hypothesis’, of a system ruled entirely from the top down. Her examination of the ministry papers of Anatoly Lunacharsky, the first Commissar of Enlightenment after the Revolution, challenged this view, beginning a long career in which she has frequently questioned the conventional understanding of Soviet history and changed the field with works such as Everyday Stalinism.

The Congressional Budget Office has calculated the “modernization” cost of the U.S. nuclear arsenal will be at least $1 trillion annually over the next ten years. Cost overruns for ongoing nuclear weapons programs have boosted total nuclear weapons costs 25% over CBO projections just two years ago.

Every day the war continues, the billions in aid Europe will need to provide to Ukraine into 2026 and beyond will grow. Who knows how much they’ll need in 2027.

Professor Steven Starr, the former director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri, looks at the danger of nuclear escalation in Ukraine.

Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have been rare since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Part of the blame falls on Europe and the mainstream media for attempting to suffocate diplomacy.

If the Trump administration truly makes good on its threats to walk away from its efforts to settle the war in Ukraine, the situation is very likely to get worse for all parties to the conflict, including for the United States. Potentially far worse.

Vice President JD Vance is the first sitting vice president since George HW Bush to serve during wartime. And at a commencement speech at the US Naval Academy’s 2025 Commissioning Ceremony, Vance delivered a coup de grace to the outdated yet still dangerous notions of American unipolarity that have animated US foreign policy for the past thirty plus years.

Today, many strategists in Washington are talking about Kissinger’s adroit diplomatic maneuver. administration supporters hope Donald Trump can orchestrate a so-called “reverse Kissinger,” wooing Russia away from China.