It seems that scarcely a day goes by without a major news story which in some way or another portrays Russia as the international bogeyman…
Daniel Larison: The Imperious Caesar Act Will Crush The Syrian People
Sanctions advocates often cast themselves as supporters and allies of the people in the country whose economy they want to destroy.
Hunter DeRensis: Is Impeachment Exposing Crimes or Policy Differences?
Once again, policy differences become the heart of the impeachment testimony.
Edward Fishman: How to Fix America’s Failing Sanctions Policy
America increasingly relies on sanctions to influence the decision calculus of foreign leaders on critical issues—and in the Trump administration, even to try to foment regime change
Robert Merry: Elites Want Trump To Repeat All The Usual Falsehoods About Ukraine
George Kent and William B. Taylor Jr., in their testimony last week, personified an aggressive geopolitical outlook that is designed to squeeze Russia into a corner and trample upon its regional interests in the name of Western universalism.
Matthew Petti: U.S. Diplomat: Stop “Dreaming” About Normal Relations With Assad
New sanctions promise to “foreclose any potential economic benefit from a so-called military victory.”
Brian Clark: Blame American Ineptitude For Russian-Chinese Bonding
Thanks to our self-defeating foreign policy, these two mismatched powers are now strengthening relations on a global scale.
Matt Purple: America: Too Weak To Rein In Its Own Empire?
Who’s really undermining deterrence here?
Patrick Buchanan: When Did Ukraine Become A ‘Critical Ally’?
On hearing the State Department’s George Kent and William Taylor describe President Donald Trump’s withholding of military aid to Ukraine, the New York Times summarized and solemnly endorsed their testimony: “What clearly concerned both witnesses wasn’t simply the abuse of power by the President, but the harm it inflicted on Ukraine, a critical ally, under constant assault by Russian forces.”
Jeremy Shapiro: The Future of U.S. Global Leadership
The central premise of the foreign policy establishment has long been that only the United States can lead the free world. But that assumption increasingly looks imperiled, most recently by the pandemic. What would foreign policy look like without it?
Beatrice Fihn: Universities Across America Profit From Developing Nuclear Weapons
Students and faculty now face a choice. They can become the next generation of weapons scientists. Or they can refuse to be complicit in this scheme, denying research partnerships or internships at nuclear weapons labs.
Carnegie Endowment: U.S.-Russian Relations in 2030
U.S.-Russian relations are at the lowest point since the Cold War. Almost all high-level dialogue between the two countries has been suspended. There are no signs that the relationship will improve in the near future.
Robert Wright: Impeachment should be about America first
Not everyone agrees that providing aid to Ukraine is in America’s interest.
BBC: Victory Day in the Time of COVID-19
Russian military aircraft swooped through the skies above an empty Red Square which, in normal circumstances, would be packed with spectators.
Michael Tracey: George Kent’s Myth of Ukraine’s Modern-Day ‘Minutemen’
The commencement of public impeachment hearings this week may have been excruciatingly dull, but for the attentive observer one moment stood out.
Stephen Kinzer: The Curse Of The American Cassandras
By ignoring their warnings, we have brought a foreign policy mentality of conquest and domination back home.
Melvin A. Goodman: Meet Ukraine: America’s Newest “Strategic Ally”
NATO expansion has proven to be not only a major irritant in Russian-American relations, but the leading cause of what appears to be the start of a new Cold War.
Ed Lozansky: Geopolitical puzzles
U.N. General Assembly meeting is good time for Trump-Putin face-to-face.
Stephen F. Cohen: Why Are We in Ukraine?
Historically and even today, Russia has much in common with Ukraine – the United States, almost nothing.
CNN: Russian court sentences US citizen Paul Whelan to 16 years in prison
Former US marine Paul Whelan was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in prison, a Moscow court ruled Monday, concluding a months-long case that put additional strain to already complicated US-Russian relations.