“The Russo-Chinese alignment is not an alliance, and it’s not a bloc, and it’s certainly not a military alliance. But Russo-Chinese alignment is far deeper and far more extensive than many Westerners have yet caught on,” Sakwa said. “It’s an alignment in which Russia and China will not do each other any harm. They will support each other when it’s in their interests—and it’s a game changer.”
Analysis
Stephen F. Cohen: Russiagate Zealotry Continues to Endanger American National Security
If Venezuela becomes a Cuban Missile–like crisis, will Trump be free to resolve it peacefully?
James Carden: Time for an International Cyber Treaty?
A cyber wild west is not in the US national interest.
Nikolay Pakhomov: Russia’s Grand Plan to Gain Power In the Shadow of U.S. Sanctions
U.S. sanctions against Iran will result in the development of cooperation between Moscow and countries important to American foreign policy.
Stephen F. Cohen: Why I’m Pro-Detente with Russia
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Paul Robinson: Book Review: Putin’s World
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Politico: Venezuela becomes Trump’s latest proxy battle with Russia
The face-off is a potentially explosive confrontation between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as the president heads into his re-election bid.
TNI: Standing Up For Realism
Whether they are doing so consciously or not, our critics, more often than not, are doing something worse than Russia could ever accomplish with its interference in American elections. They are sowing doubt about what constitutes legitimate debate and patriotism in America.
Jon Wolfsthal: A US-Russia-China Arms Treaty? Extend New START First
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Werner Herzog Brings a Soviet Leader to Tears in the Humanizing Meeting Gorbachev
Confessional and sincere, Meeting Gorbachev humanizes both its creator and its subject.
Gordon Hahn: Ukrainian Spring or Maidan Constitutional Crisis?
The victory of television comedic actor and producer, President-elect Volodomyr Zelenskii, over the increasingly ultra-nationalist oligarch, outgoing President Petro Poroshenko, marked a rejection by a slim Ukrainian majority in the western regions of the oligarchic element in the Weimar Maidan oligarchic-ultranationalist hybrid regime.
Brian Milakovsky: How Ukraine’s new language law will affect Donbas
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Stephen F. Cohen: Mueller’s Own Mysteries
Little-noted aspects of the first volume of the Mueller report.
Gil Barndollar: The Kosovo War at 20
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Lyle Goldstein: The Russian Navy Is Facing Tough Decisions
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Stephen F. Cohen: From Jim Crow Kentucky to Red Square
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Paul Robinson: Spot the Difference
Remember this story, which appeared on the BBC in September 2016?….
David Bromwich: Short Cuts
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Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Russiagate, There are No Winners
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