The Kremlin says Russia will gratefully accept U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to provide ventilators for coronavirus patients.
Bloomberg: French Ministers Visit Moscow in First Such Meeting Since 2014
Defense, foreign ministers met annually until Crimea invasion.
AP: Lavrov bristles at suggestion Russia is using coronavirus pandemic to boost its global influence
Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday angrily rejected Western claims that Moscow has used the coronavirus crisis to expand its political influence, saying the world needs unity to surmount the pandemic.
Andrew McCarthy Talks To John Batchelor
The most alarming aspect of the Trump–Russia investigation, and of the stark difference between the aggression with which it was pursued and the see-no-evil passivity of the Clinton emails caper, is the way the investigative process was used to influence political outcomes, writes McCarthy.
Steven Pifer: Trump’s fake news on arms control?
New START expires next February. While it can be extended by up to five years, and Putin is ready to agree, the Trump administration has not taken up the offer.
Aziz Rana: On the pressing need for a non-imperial vision of the US and the world.
Simply claiming that Russia embodies the external threat and ideological antagonist of the old Soviet Union does not make it so.
VIDEO: Aaron Mate: The Sanders Campaign Kowtowed to the Russia-gate Narrative
The Progressive movement’s failure to reject Russiagate & Ukrainegate ultimately helped the Democratic Party establishment defeat Bernie Sanders.
Aaron Mate: MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell hits Russiagate rock bottom
Aaron Maté slams MSNBC’s latest Russiagate dud, exposing how Lawrence O’Donnell’s embarrassing retraction is part of a pattern of bogus conspiracy theories that push the limits of political self-satire.
Moscow Times: Coronavirus in Russia: The Latest News
There have been 21,102 cases of coronavirus infections reported in Russia so far and 170 deaths.
William S. Smith: A Debauched Culture Leads to a Debauched Foreign Policy
Our recent hubristic wars did not happen in a vacuum, but downstream from the swamp we call our modern elite.
Al Jazeera: Russia ready for hypersonic missile talks with US, says Lavrov
Both countries are developing hypersonic missiles, which fly several times speed of sound and can be steered in flight.
Daniel Bessner: The Fog of Intervention
Simply maintaining an enormous military able to intervene anywhere in the world carries its own set of malign consequences: endless wars, global arms proliferation, a militaristic political culture, the diversion of resources from welfare to weapons, and the strengthening of the military-industrial complex, to name just a few. The Education of an Idealist does not account for these social ills.
Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Part I COVID-19 Siberia: Life in the Village
This is the first in a three-part update on “COVID-19: The View from Siberia”
Stephen F. Cohen: What We Still Do Not Know About Russiagate
Vital questions about perhaps the worst alleged presidential scandal in US history remain unanswered.
Christopher Preble: How will COVID-19 change US national security strategy?
Even as Americans struggle to deal with a deadly and seemingly unprecedented pandemic, it isn’t too soon to wonder how the present crisis will shape our collective understanding about the dangers that we face, and the best means for addressing them.
Michael T. Klare: The Pentagon’s New Missile Drive Is Bringing Armageddon Closer
Washington is withdrawing from the INF treaty not because of Russian violations but because the Pentagon wants to deploy a dangerous new class of its own nukes.
Joseph Cirincione and William D. Hartung: Why America Needs to Rethink Its National Security Priorities
Here’s how to change the National Defense Authorization Act.
Rasmussen Poll: Trump Getting Tougher, Voters Say, But Most Want Russia As A Friend
Voters think President Trump is getting more aggressive with Russia, but most continue to believe it’s better to have the former Soviet Union as a friend than an enemy.
Just Security: Extend New START — The World Can’t Afford a U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Race Too
The unrelenting and rapid spread of the novel coronavirus underscores the cost of neglect and indecision by the Trump administration in the face of serious threats to U.S. and global security.
Andrew C. McCarthy: Trump Was Always the Target of the Russia Investigation
The IG report confirms it.