Hillary Clinton’s McCarthyite smear has redounded to the benefit of 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard.
Bonnie Kristian: Upcoming nuclear arms talks with Russia a chance to save key treaty
Senior American and Russian diplomats will converge in Vienna beginning June 22 for arms control negotiations – possibly, a State Department official told Bloomberg, even laying the groundwork to extend the New START deal set to expire in February.
Letter to Congressman Adam Schiff from Krishen Mehta
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William S. Smith: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick: 30 Years Unheeded
The foreign policy establishment gives something like pariah status to arguments that we should negotiate better trade deals, reconsider our Cold War alliances and, most especially, subject American foreign policy to popular preferences
Katrina vanden Heuvel: From the hope of 1989 to a new Cold War
Support for a less adversarial U.S.-Russia relationship may not be popular. As I have argued in the past, though, it is sober realism.
Ronald Grigor Suny: Review Essay: Putin’s World
Deeply immersed in both the scholarly and policy worlds, Angela Stent is one of those itinerant experts who crosses the chasm between government and the academy.
Stephen F. Cohen and Aaron Mate: Ukrainegate impeachment saga worsens US-Russia Cold War
As the House opens impeachment hearings for President Trump, Professor Stephen F. Cohen warns that the US military assistance at the heart of Ukrainegate escalates the US-Russia Cold War.
Adrian Pabst: China, Russia and the return of the civilisational state
Such states define themselves not as nations but civilisations – in opposition to the liberalism and global market ideology of the West.
John J. Mearsheimer: Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order
The fall of the liberal international order horrifies the Western elites who built it and who have benefited from it in many ways.
Dmitri Trenin: Decoding Russia’s Official Nuclear Deterrence Paper
In a world where major powers are unconstrained by mutual obligations regarding their most powerful arms, proper communication is key to avoid fateful mistakes.
Sophie Pinkham: Ukraine Needs More Than Lethal Aid From the United States
It Needs a Partner in Peace.
Algis Valiunas: Russian Purgatory
The Russian soul. The phrase serves as shorthand for Russia’s national character, after the manner of American innocence, French arrogance, Italian dolce far niente, and what used to be the English stiff upper lip.
Andrew Bacevich: The Berlin Wall fell and the U.S. learned the wrong lessons.
Thirty years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the end of the Cold War.
Daniel Larison: How Interventionists Hijack The Rhetoric Of Morality
The belief that military intervention is an expression of the “moral element” of U.S. foreign policy is deeply wrong, but it is unfortunately just as deeply-ingrained among many foreign policy professionals.
Washington Times: Open Letter to U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin
April 25, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the momentous occasion when U.S. and Soviet forces met at the Elbe River in the city of Torgau, Germany, successfully cutting the German army in two.
Anatoly Antonov: America’s Withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty Undermines Euro-Atlantic Security
In today’s volatile global situation the international community cannot afford to squander agreements like the Open Skies Treaty.
Paul J Saunders: Has Russia Established a New International Role?
As Russia’s first significant military intervention outside the former Soviet region in decades, Moscow’s four-year Syrian operation has appropriately attracted considerable attention.
Dimitri Alexander Simes: Is Putin Planning for an Arms Control Showdown?
Amid the uncertainty surrounding the New START Treaty, nuclear tensions between the United States and Russia are starting to rise.
BBC: Nato alliance experiencing brain death, says Macron
President Emmanuel Macron of France has described Nato as “brain dead”, stressing what he sees as waning commitment to the transatlantic alliance by its main guarantor, the US.
Andrew Bacevich: Party Leaders: Comrade Leonid, Comrade Donald
The National Security Archive, an under-appreciated jewel in the crown of the George Washington University, has now made available in English translation its latest volume of Anatoly S. Chernyaev’s journal. A long-time adviser to senior Soviet officials, Chernyaev was a diarist in the tradition of the American diplomat George Kennan—shrewd, uncompromisingly honest, both a patriot and something of a romantic.