During a round table co-hosted by the Center for the National Interest and Charles Koch Institute, Eugene Gholz, along with other esteemed foreign policy experts, such as Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer discussed how the United States should interact with Russia.
New Gallup Poll Shows More in U.S. Favor Diplomacy Over Sanctions for Russia
58% say it’s more important to try to improve relations.
Don’t Intervene in Syria (NY Times Op-Ed)
The goal now should be reducing harm, saving lives and keeping prospects for a political deal alive. Cease-fire talks between the United States and Russia, tormented though they may be, remain the best way to achieve this, write two former high-ranking Obama NSC officials.
Josh Cohen: Turning the Tide of U.S-Russia Relations
A leaked document after Helsinki spells hope for a rapprochement.
PODCAST: Slouching Toward War With Russia In Syria? (Stephen F. Cohen)
Nation Contributing Editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new U.S.-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments are at TheNation.com.) The focus is on the Obama Administration’s termination of months-long negotiations with Moscow for a joint U.S.-Russian campaign against jihad terrorist forces in Syria. The discussion ranges from Syria to other fronts in the new Cold War…
Dimitri Alexander Simes: What Russia’s Youth Are Thinking
While most young Russians approve of Vladimir Putin and oppose completely overhauling the status quo, they are not blind to the system’s problems.
Syria: White House Warns of ‘Actions’ If Russia Won’t Negotiate (NBC NEWS)
White House officials told NBC News Monday they are now considering escalating the U.S. involvement in Syria’s civil war, including unspecified “actions…that would further underscore the consequences of not coming back to the negotiating table.”
Nicolai N. Petro: America is Addicted to Sanctions
To paraphrase a famous saying, when you go the route of sanctions, you should dig two graves. One for your rival’s economy, and one for your own.
On Nuclear Policy, Trump and Clinton Agree: Armageddon Is an Option (Andrew Bacevich)
While you were up watching reruns of Seinfeld, the first presidential debate turned into Dr. Strangelove….
Paul Robinson: Book Review: Russia’s Response to Sanctions
Do sanctions work? More precisely, have the sanctions imposed on Russia in recent years worked?
Do We Really Want Nuclear War with Russia? (Robert Parry)
Special Report: The U.S. propaganda war against Russia is spinning out of control, rolling ever faster downhill with a dangerous momentum that threatens to drive the world into a nuclear showdown, reports Robert Parry.
Eugene Rumer: Opposition to Nord Stream 2 makes no sense for America or Europe
Fears of Russian domination through gas sales ignore earlier pipeline projects.
Why the United States Should Exercise Restraint Before Launching A New War in Syria (The National Interest)
Tensions between Russia and the United States are coming to a head over the civil war in Syria. Washington has suspended bilateral talks with Russia to end the five-year old war. Moscow has suspended an agreement to destroy 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium that was reached during the year 2000, using especially harsh rhetoric.
Politico: Odd couple Merkel and Putin find reasons to smile
Russian President Vladimir Putin flew into Berlin late Saturday afternoon to strengthen a brittle relationship with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and quell dissent over a controversial expansion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
Obama Warned to Defuse Tensions with Russia (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity)
A group of ex-U.S. intelligence officials is warning President Obama to defuse growing tensions with Russia over Syria by reining in the demonization of President Putin and asserting White House civilian control over the Pentagon.
Rep. Thomas Massie: Russia Hysteria Undercuts Our Values, Impedes Relations
What began as only Russophobic rhetoric seems to have turned into a witch hunt, as President Trump calls it.
Suspension of Syria Talks With Russia Is the Most Dangerous Development of the New Cold War (The Nation)
The collapse of talks takes the US one step closer to an unnecessarily deadly “military solution” to the Syria crisis, writes James Carden.
PODCAST: Stephen F. Cohen: Sanction Mania vs. Russia
For nearly 100 years, Russia has been under US sanctions, often to the detriment of American national security.
Russia suspends weapons-grade plutonium deal with US (BBC)
Russia has suspended an agreement with the US on the disposal of surplus weapons-grade plutonium, the latest sign of worsening bilateral relations.
Sen. Rand Paul: The U.S. Must Engage With Russia
On my recent trip to Russia, I spent an hour with Mikhail Gorbachev.