American Committee for US-Russia Accord

Our nuclear-weapons strategy enables one man, the president, to kill and maim an unthinkable number of people in a single afternoon.

What will the consequences be if the bipartisan consensus on Russia continues to be almost completely untethered from reality?

Of course the threat of nuclear war never vanished. All that went away was the bipolar conflict with the Soviet Union, the theatre in which we feared the war would erupt.

The Donetsk People’s Republic is opposed to plans by political leaders in Kyiv to invite to the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine representatives of the United Nations to discuss a possible ‘peacekeeping’ mission to the region, says Denis Pushilin, the representative of the DPR to the all-party Contact Group of the Minsk-2 ceasefire process.

Diplomatic sources confirmed to Asia Times much of the discussions in Sochi involved Russian President Vladimir Putin laying out to Iran President Hassan Rouhani and Turkey President Recep Erdogan how a new configuration may play out in a constantly evolving chessboard.

How Washington’s chronic deceit-especially towards Russia-has sabotaged U.S. foreign policy.

Here’s a puzzle for all you students of U.S. foreign policy: Why is a distinguished and well-known approach to foreign policy confined to the margins of public discourse, especially in the pages of our leading newspapers, when its recent track record is arguably superior to the main alternatives?

I refer, of course, to realism. 

With corruption rampant and living standards falling, Ukraine may become the next failed state that “benefited” from a neoconservative-driven “regime change,” though the blame will always be placed elsewhere – in this case, on the demonized Russian President Putin, writes Robert Parry.

By declaring Putin’s Russia to be the greatest danger to America, the political-media establishment itself is endangering US national security.

Of course, the “Russian threat” is not so great as the Poles would have others believe. For all of Warsaw’s concern for “central and eastern Europe,” there have been no real Russian threats against those states. Nor has Vladimir Putin done anything to suggest his interest in an aggressive war to conquer the region. No one imagines a revived Red Army heading toward Montenegro, recently invited to join NATO.

By treating Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies as an existential threat, Western leaders are playing directly into the Kremlin’s hands, and validating its false narrative about Russia’s place in the world.

American liberals are so upset about Trump that they cannot believe he is a real product of American life,” Mr. Kurilla said. “They try to portray him as something created by Russia. This whole thing is about America, not Russia.”