Don’t just sit there, sanction someone” should be the motto for U.S. foreign policy these days…
National Interest Editorial: Why the Media Gets Russia Influence Wrong
In substituting character assassination for analysis, news organizations are again contributing to the deterioration of political norms. Score another one for the Kremlin.
Ernest J. Moniz And Sam Nunn: The Return of Doomsday
The New Nuclear Arms Race—and How Washington and Moscow Can Stop It.
Amb. Tony Kevin: COVID 19 and possibilities for effective international security dialogue
Remarkably, since the COVID – 19 pandemic first began to impact seriously in recent weeks (through Italy) on Europe and US, there has been almost no international dialogue among Western countries’ political leaders, or with Chinese and Russian leaders. [Read more…] about Amb. Tony Kevin: COVID 19 and possibilities for effective international security dialogue
Steven Erlanger: Are We Headed for Another Expensive Nuclear Arms Race? Could Be.
After the recent death of the treaty covering intermediate-range missiles, a new arms race appears to be taking shape, drawing in more players, more money and more weapons at a time of increased global instability and anxiety about nuclear proliferation.
NY Times: Thanks to Sanctions, Russia Is Cushioned From Virus’s Economic Shocks
Years of economic isolation and bulging financial reserves have positioned the country to ride out the coronavirus panic and bounce right back.
Simon Saradzhyan: How High Is Risk of Nuclear War Between Russia and US?
Whatever the risks of nuclear war, they are bound to grow further if the end of the INF Treaty is followed by the demise of New START and U.S. withdrawal from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, according to Nunn and Moniz. I cannot agree more.
WAPO: Six years and $20 billion in Russian investment later, Crimeans are happy with Russian annexation
After a hastily organized and deeply contentious referendum on March 16, 2014, following Russia’s military occupation of the peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty of accession with Crimean leaders in Moscow two days later. An avalanche of international criticism followed.
Boris Mezhuev: Putin administration must change its perspective on regional self-governance
Today, as a fresh round of protests takes place over upcoming Moscow municipal elections Russia is experiencing a profound and protracted crisis. It is time for Russia to reinvent itself as a patriotic nation through local self-governance.
Russia Beyond: How has life in Moscow changed due to coronavirus?
Muscovites are stockpiling essential foods and trying not to leave home unless they have to. And this is far from everything that is happening in Moscow because of the coronavirus outbreak.
VIDEO: Bruce Blair: The Protocol for Nuclear First Use by the United States, Russia, and China
Remarks by Bruce Blair, a former missile launch officer, the co-founder of Global Zero, and a professor at Princeton.
Moscow Times: Coronavirus in Russia: The Latest News
As the new coronavirus that has killed more than 8,800 people continues to spread around the world, Russia has stepped up its measures to tackle the pandemic and prevent its spread within the country.
David Bromwich: Tulsi Gabbard has done the unpardonable
The NY Times full spread hit piece on Tulsi Gabbard is a new low, even for the Times. It is yellow journalism half disguised as human interest, with a few random points of political information.
Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: COVID- 19: The View from Siberia
This is a chronology of events in relation to the COVID 19 pandemic as they evolved in the normal course of life in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk (the third largest city in Russia).
Report: Building Covering Radioactive Material at Chernobyl Close to Collapse
Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari reports officials are concerned that the sarcophagus covering nuclear material at Chernobyl in the Ukraine is on the verge of collapse.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev: If war is the consequence of a policy, then get rid of the policy
It is only two months into 2020, and the world has already been on the brink of a clash between two great powers. These were real military actions-in Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Then the participants seemed to rethink and stepped back from the brink, What is this? It’s the old policy of “balancing on the edge of war.” A dangerous, adventurist policy.
Portside: How About Raising the Issue of How to Avert Nuclear War?
Will the United States and other nations survive these escalating preparations for nuclear war? In fact, the U.S. government and others are increasing the role that nuclear weapons play in their “national security” policies.
PODCAST: Moderate Rebels: Joe Biden, same old wars, same old interventionism
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden has for decades supported wars and military interventions across the planet. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with former State Department Russia adviser James Carden about his experience in the Obama administration.
Dimitri Alexander Simes: Are Russia and America Headed Toward Nuclear War?
Dimitri A. Simes, a contributor to the National Interest, spoke to Viktor Murakhovsky, a retired Russian colonel, defense analyst, and editor-in-chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, to better get the Russian perspective on the future of arms control.
Debate: ‘Spheres of Influence’—a Reality to Be Faced or an Atavism to Be Rejected?
As competition among great powers intensifies, so, too, could debates about spheres of influence. Some U.S. policymakers have implied or said outright that the United States has its own sphere of influence that should be respected. Political analyst Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute has gone as far as to argue that, in order to avoid “needless conflict,” Washington should seek “a sensible agreement” with Moscow…