The long term consequences of our trade sanctions are not yet clear. One possibility will be the break up of the world into two main trading blocs as China, Russia and Europe work to set up a trading system not dependent upon the dollar.
Analysis
Peter Harris: Where is Trump the Realist?
Those who advocate for a more circumscribed foreign policy have every reason to feel cheated.
Daniel L. Davis: America’s Fear-Based Foreign Policy Needs to Go
Since 9/11, fear has become the basis for most of America’s foreign policy—and the lives of its citizens are worse because of it.
Stephen Kinzer: America’s Legacy of Regime Change
For most of history, seizing another country or territory was a straightforward proposition. You assembled an army and ordered it to invade. Combat determined the victor. The toll in death and suffering was usually horrific, but it was all done in the open.
Asia Times: Say hello to the Russia-China operating system
The US ban on Huawei is pushing it to develop alternative systems that may rival Google and Android.
Fred Weir: Are US tariffs pushing China and Russia together?
Russia has felt exiled from the West for years, barred by economic sanctions. With China now facing U.S. tariffs and Western suspicions over Huawei, the Kremlin has a potential partner for the future.
Dmitri Trenin: Russia, China are key and close partners
President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia comes exactly 30 years after Moscow-Beijing relations were normalized after a period of discord and confrontation. This normalization has turned out to be one of the most productive foreign policy investments for both countries.
Doug Mallouk: Snub of Russia on D-Day a worrisome omission
Has the current tide of hysteria against all things Russian risen to the point that European and American policymakers are now attempting an Orwellian rewrite of the history of World War II?
William A. Nitze: Trump Administration’s Intended Withdrawal From the INF Treaty Threatens National Security
The Senate must respond to President Trump’s recklessness by asserting its constitutional prerogatives.
Andrew C. McCarthy: Steele’s Shoddy Dossier
Its claims were absurd, its evidence unconvincing — why did government officials ignore so many red flags?
Whitney Webb: Bipartisan Support for Trump’s Aggressive Iran Policy Reveals the Hollowness of Russiagate
While Russia often serves as a useful “boogeyman” for promoting militaristic policies, the odd moments when those same policies actually benefit Russia and avoid strong opposition from U.S. politicians and media provide a rare glimpse into the real motivations behind Cold War 2.0.
Ivan Kurilla: Toward the Possibility of a New U.S.-Russian “Reset”
Relations between Russia and the United States have been known to change, for the better or for the worse, within a relatively short period of time.
Tucker Carlson: What the resistance has done to our democracy
More on John Brennan, #Resistance hero.
Andrew Cockburn: On The Candidacy of Joe Biden
An ardent proponent of NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, an ill-conceived initiative that has served as an enduring provocation of Russian hostility toward the West, Biden voted enthusiastically to authorize Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, was a major proponent of Clinton’s war in Kosovo, and pushed for military intervention in Sudan.
James Meek: The Village Life
For Pushkin, the country was both a place of tranquillity and beauty, and of boredom, though that boredom had a liberating effect, giving him the blank time his writing needed.
David Axe: Is Russia Testing Nuclear Weapons in Secret?
Most likely the answer is no. But there is a much bigger issue here that must be addressed.
Daniel Larison: Trump’s Venezuela Hallucination
Trump was eager to boast about Moscow’s withdrawal of its troops from Venezuela, but it turned out that he or someone else in the administration just made it up…
Paul Saunders: Leveraging Venezuela: How Russia Sees Its Interests in US Backyard
Moscow has many reasons to try to prevent the fall of the Maduro regime
Chris Hedges: Manufacturing War With Russia
We are in a new and more perilous point in a 50-year nuclear arms race
M. K. Bhadrakumar: Russia has more in common with Israel than meets the eye
The rocky partnership between Russia and Iran in the Syrian conflict is entering a turbulent period. The unprecedented US-Russia-Israel security summit due to take place in Jerusalem next month has no other explanation.