American Committee for US-Russia Accord

The result of growing Russian military frustration has been to increase demands by hardliners to bring the war to a victorious end by some act of radical escalation that would terrify the West into imposing Russian terms on Ukraine.

They seem however to have no clear idea of what this escalation should consist of; and so far Putin has consistently rejected a strategy that would be both immensely dangerous and would offer no sure prospect of success.

Since its birth in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been attached to the United States by a figurative umbilical cord which has sustained its life well into old age—76 years. As the Trump administration restructures the American armed forces by instituting a 10-point plan announced at the recent meeting of the generals and flag officers at Quantico, by renaming the Department of Defense the War Department, by reinvigorating our industrial plant to build more ships, planes, and other war platforms, by modernizing our nuclear forces, by pursuing Golden Dome defenses, and by redirecting the focus of our armed forces to protecting the homeland and securing the Western Hemisphere, the long-delayed need to emancipate our European allies into global adulthood is upon us. It is time for the United States to cut NATO’s umbilical cord.

A few days ago, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton replied to my question about Ukraine at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She and John Sullivan, who served as Ambassador to Russia under both Presidents Trump and Biden, revealed themselves to be either liars or so ignorant of reasons for the U.S. Ukraine war as to be utter fools. [The full video can be found here].

Last April, I was interviewed by a Russian television channel about Western Russophobia and I had an epiphany. I more or less replied: “It’s going to be unpleasant for you to hear this, but our Russophobia has nothing to do with you. It’s a fantasy, a pathology of Western societies, an endogenous need of ours to imagine a Russian monster.”

NATO leaders and their supporters in the news media are responding to the rising tensions by reviving an idea from the earliest days of the Kremlin’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine: imposing a no-fly zone over that country. It is an especially provocative and dangerous scheme that carries a serious risk of triggering World War III.

War is ugly and it leaves in its brutal wake not just death and destruction, but also a seemingly endless number of people whose minds and bodies are permanently damaged. Yet, despite these grim aspects of war, the unsavory affair is still quite common within our species and its existence has come to seem, at this point, like an inevitability.  One of the most recent examples of this is the bloody war between Russia and Ukraine. The West, and the US in particular, has had a major part to play in the escalation of this war, which is one that could, potentially, spark World War III.

President Donald Trump will speak by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, a White House official said.

The call comes a day before Trump is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House.

Merkel believes the refusal by Poland and the Baltic States to pursue such a format encouraged Putin to take the path of full-on aggression

“Some at the European Council did not support that. They were primarily the Baltic States – Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – but Poland was also against it because they feared that we would not have a common policy towards Russia,” she said.

In this eye-opening session, Irish MEP and activist Clare Daly exposes the harsh reality of Europe’s so-called “defense of democracy” policies. Labeled a “Russian propagandist” simply for speaking the truth, Daly takes aim at the European Union’s disinformation framework, hybrid sanctions, and systematic crackdown on dissent.

From pro-Palestinian journalists facing travel bans and asset freezes to citizens being punished for questioning COVID measures or NATO policies, Daly reveals how words and ideas are treated as weapons and how the EU is increasingly silencing voices that challenge its narrative. “If it’s them today, it’s you tomorrow,” warns Daly, emphasizing the urgency for citizens to organize, protect free speech, and hold European leadership accountable.

For the first time in several years, there is some positive movement between Russia and the United States on strategic arms control.  In late September 2025, Vladimir Putin proposed that Moscow and Washington agree to extend the New Start Treaty – which is set to expire automatically in February 2026 – for one year.  That crucial treaty caps the number of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) at 1,550 for each side.

Long-range Tomahawk missiles are on the agenda for discussion during Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY’s visit to Washington this week, the Ukrainian leader said in his address to the nation today.

According to the Ukrainian leader, he and Trump have spoken in preparation for their in-person meeting. During those conversations, the two leaders have discussed both Patriot and Tomahawk missiles, along with other weapons, Zelenskyy said, adding that he plans to meet with U.S. defense companies.

The Ukrainian leader lauded Trump’s efforts to strike a peace deal between Israel and Hamas last week, saying that “there is very strong momentum for peace in the world right now,” and suggesting that the Middle East peace process shows that Putin could still be pressured to a similar deal.

Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. OLGA STEFANISHYNA told our own Felicia Schwartz that delegations from the two governments have participated in a “completely new format of engagement” to maximize success ahead of Friday’s top-level meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump.

Also on the agenda: discussing additional sanctions against Russia, bolstering Ukraine’s air defenses, boosting U.S.-Ukraine economic ties and announcing new arms deliveries to Ukraine under NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List mechanism.

Meanwhile, Polish Foreign Minister RADOSŁAW SIKORSKI warned today that Europe should prepare for a Russian strike deep in the continent, and urged forward movement on the development of a “drone wall” along the bloc’s eastern flank. Sikorski also encouraged Trump to give Kyiv access to Tomahawk missiles.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he may supply Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for its fight against Russia.

Last month, Lithuania’s former foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis pithily diagnosed Europe as being stuck in a perpetual geopolitical Groundhog Day. Landsbergis is quite correct, though for reasons that would leave him unsmiling.

NATO’s worst enemy is NATO itself, says the scholar Pascal Lottaz.

Cutting the European continent in half economically was an act of suicidal madness. The German economy is stagnating. Poverty and inequality are on the rise throughout the West. The United Kingdom is on the brink of collapse. France is not far behind. Societies and political systems are at a standstill.

Vladimir Putin gave a lengthy speech on October 2 before the 22nd annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, often called “Russia’s Davos,” before answering questions for three hours

The self-proclaimed mediator in the Russia/Ukraine conflict, US President Donald Trump, has according to the Wall Street Journal given the green light to share US intelligence and targeting information with Ukraine to enable deep strikes into Russian territory. He is also reportedly considering sending Tomahawk missiles, which have a range of 1,500 miles and can carry nuclear weapons. Will Russia respond?

Generally in history, the Translatio Imperii has been accompanied and driven by great military catastrophes. With luck, this time that will not be necessary.

Hundreds of physicians from around the world have gathered in Nagasaki, Japan, this week, to discuss our shared belief that we can and should abolish all nuclear weapons.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) has won a past Nobel Peace Prize for this sort of work. In particular, the scientific arguments of the world’s doctors about the species-level threat of a nuclear war made a profound impression on Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and convinced those Cold War leaders to jointly declare that “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”