American Committee for US-Russia Accord

It’s amazing the enormous sums of money the U.S. government spends on destructive weaponry in the stated cause of deterring massive destruction. It’s MAD, of course, this notion that peace is only attainable via the promise of annihilating another people. And now we know that annihilation won’t be limited to Russia or China or Iran: that a “general” nuclear strike would likely produce a nuclear winter that would end most life on our planet. Yet the Pentagon persists in nuclear “modernization” and further “investments” in the Triad.

In 2014, Ukrainian nationalists came to the conclusion that elections could no longer be trusted to deliver their monist vision of Ukraine in which the language, culture, and religion of the country’s ethnic Russian citizens had to be erased. So, for the first time in Ukraine’s history, they reversed an election with a coup. The central goal of that coup was to end Ukraine’s multivector foreign policy that balanced relations with Europe and Russia.

Rather than writing about real aggression conducted or facilitated by the state of which you’re a citizen, you can always tell stories about imaginary aggression by designated enemies.

I didn’t go to Moscow in secret with anything to hide, I informed the British government beforehand.

Why did the Russia-Ukraine war happen, and what factors beyond power politics and national security help explain the conflict? In this in-depth conversation, Lasha Kasradze of The Golden Fleece welcomes Professor Nicolai Petro back to discuss the Russia-Ukraine conflict through the lens of domestic politics, culture, religion, nationalism, diplomacy, and the changing international order.

“The word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.” ~ Justice Hugo Black,New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

“National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly.

We are told, almost daily, that Vladimir Putin is finished. Weak. Isolated. One more package of sanctions away from being overthrown by his own people. It has become the background music of European politics. I discussed the ongoing suppression of free debate in the western world Professor David Gibbs and he remarked that what we are experiencing today is far worse than McCarthyism

“I stand here because Ukraine and Europe continue to choose a bad war over a bad peace — escalation over diplomacy, time and again. Yet one day this war will end, and each of us will be remembered by the fruit we bear today.”

The western media has provided cover for Zelensky by reporting that presidential elections are not permitted by Ukraine’s constitution at time of war. But while Ukrainian law prohibits parliamentary, presidential, and local elections under martial law, the highest law in the land, the Ukrainian constitution (Article 83), speaks only of the parliament as being able to extend its authority in the event that martial law is declared and elections cannot be held. It pointedly says nothing about extending the term of the president.

The most bizarre comment made by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski at the Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, was his comment about the Ukrainian Nazi who organized massacres of tens of thousands of Poles during WWII and who has been praised as a hero by Ukraine.

He called him “flawed.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that President Trump will allow Ukraine to build Patriot missiles with “concrete agreements” in place between Kyiv and Washington.

The following is the transcript of remarks delivered to the U.N. Security Council by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday, followed by responses from Ukraine, the U.S. and Britain.  

United Russia took 57.7 percent in the State Duma elections. Before the count, Dr Matthew Blackburn sat down with me and put the number in a range: 55 to 60 percent. He was right.

The State Department approved a potential $2.6 billion air defense equipment sale to Ukraine Friday as its conflict with Russia resumed following trilateral talks with U.S. special envoys.

COPENHAGEN — Denmark, Greenland and the United States are set to sign a deal on Greenland’s security on Tuesday, an agreement Denmark says will put Arctic security under NATO’s watch rather than leaving it solely to Washington and Copenhagen.

US President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping sanctions bill, taking aim at Russia’s economy by punishing major purchasers of its oil and gas.

Vladimir Putin has not changed his war aims a jot since 2022 and remains determined on fighting on. Donald Trump has no new plan for peace other than bringing the Ukraine war to an end on Putin’s terms. And Kyiv is running out of money and men to defend itself, just as surely as it has already run out of Patriot interceptors to defend its skies against the Kremlin’s barrages.

Those are the three depressing takeaways from the latest round of shuttle diplomacy in Moscow and Kyiv by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff.

On the eve of their departure, Trump said his boys would be presenting “a new plan” for Ukraine. It quickly became clear that no such initiative existed. Instead, a grinning Putin simply cycled through his old talking points about liberating all of Donbas and insisting that Ukraine still needed to be “demilitarized” and “denazified.”

Objectively, talking is better than not talking – especially in a war that has become a grinding battle of attrition on the ground, and where both sides have switched their strategic efforts to a long-range battle where they vie to destroy each other’s cities and vital infrastructure. Jared Kushner was mocked by some pro-Kyiv commentators for his upbeat insistence that Trump is seeking to end the war using his business background. “War is negative sum. Everyone loses from war,” Kushner told a press conference in Kyiv. “Business and peace is positive sum.” Kushner also spoke of Putin’s “aspirations” for his country that could also be achieved once the war is concluded. Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s Politburo-faced foreign policy advisor, confirmed that “economic issues and potential major, mutually beneficial Russian-American projects were discussed in considerable detail.”

Trump loves to remind his audience that because of him, Americans are “not spending on Ukraine anymore” and instead, Europe is footing the bill. In truth, most people in the United States don’t think about Ukraine much these days. But since Trump himself brought it up, it’s worth asking: What exactly is going on with U.S. military support to Ukraine?

The answer might surprise you. Despite Trump’s rhetoric, the United States remains deeply embroiled in Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia in ways that create national security risks and run counter to Trump’s own foreign policy goals.