… in order to engage in diplomacy, even foes must show some respect for one another. As we have seen in recent years, the extremes of American voluntarism have made it impossible for such respect to be accorded. This is obvious in the case of the U.S. treatment of Russia (an absence of respect that long precedes the allegations of Russia-gate), but America is by no means unique. Russia’s leadership can be equally Machiavellian, as can France’s, England’s, and so on. Tit-for-tat is an endless game. The question is how to end it.
AP: US-Russia chill stirs worry about stumbling into conflict
WASHINGTON (AP) — It has the makings of a new Cold War, or worse.
Nicolai N. Petro: The Gospel According to Poroshenko: Politics, Religion, and the New Church of Ukraine
Religious conflict in Ukraine has been much in the news of late.
Jacob Bacharach: MSNBC’s Wild Ride
The liberal network is booming. But is it selling its viewers a conspiratorial fantasy?
Michael Tracey: Dunking on Rachel Maddow may be fun, but she’s far from the sole perpetrator
Can you think of a more vulgar and disgraceful manifestation of Trump-Russia media malfeasance than Rachel Maddow?
Lyle Goldstein: Russia’s Dangerous Undersea Games
In the early 1980s, a series of dangerous naval maneuvers on both sides brought the superpowers to the brink of nuclear catastrophe. Here we go again.
Paul Robinson: Review of Richard Sakwa’s ‘Russia’s Futures’
I strongly recommend Russia’s Futures. There are so many books out there portraying Russia in an absurdly negative light, that it’s deeply refreshing to come across something which is extremist only in its sense of balance.
Stephen Kinzer: Trump is gutting the National Endowment for Democracy, and that’s a good thing
Finally you have made a foreign policy recommendation that is logical, overdue, and in the long-term interest of the United States. Congress will probably reject it, but you deserve credit for making the effort.
Robert G. Papp: A Cyber Treaty With Russia
Prospects for meaningful cyber negotiations with the Russian Federation, let alone a bilateral agreement or cyber treaty, seem almost impossible to imagine today.
Gil Barndollar: NATO Is 70 and Past Retirement Age
The alliance once had its purpose, but now it keeps Europe weak and makes it too easy for Washington to intervene in foolish overseas wars.
Daniel Lazare: The Tale of a ‘Deep State Target’
Now that Russian collusion is dead and buried thanks to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, the big question is how and why such charges arose.
James Carden: It’s Time to Rethink Our World Order
The bipartisan foreign-policy consensus that emerged in the aftermath of the Cold War and ossified into something akin to a religious orthodoxy was perhaps first articulated by the late neoconservative polemicist Charles Krauthammer in an essay in Foreign Affairs in 1991.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina: Russia Reacts to the Release of the Mueller Report
While few people in Russia expect relations between the two countries to improve, some hope that direct, citizen-to-citizen contact can slowly bridge the rift.
Stephen Kinzer: The folly of ‘Russiagate’
The election of President Donald Trump was not, we now learn, the result of a conspiracy directed from Moscow.
George Beebe: Making Sense of Our Russiagate Failure
Healthy skepticism took a back seat to a story that too many were too eager to believe.
The Hill: Nunes says he will soon send 8 criminal referrals to Barr
Nunes did not say who the referrals are for but said five of them are for crimes that include lying to Congress, misleading Congress and leaking classified information.
VIDEO: Glenn Greenwald: Media’s Mueller leaks are a sign of desperation
The Intercept co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald on what we’ve learned from the Mueller report leaks.
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick: 2 Minutes and Counting
Crises that seemed contained not long ago have now spiraled out of control and the prospects for resolving them peacefully look depressingly bleak.
Peter van Buren: How Rachel Maddow Turned Into Infowars
She’s still spinning Russiagate conspiracy tales, even as her ratings come crashing down.
VIDEO: ‘Obscene’ Bipartisan Applause for NATO in Congress
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress fanning the fire of a ‘Russian threat.’ Peter Kuznick says it is an ‘obscene bipartisan spectacle applauding war’; Pietro Shakarian discusses the self-serving NATO expansion and the hyperbolic Russia threat narrative