American Committee for US-Russia Accord

Veteran British journalist, Mary Dejevsky talks with former UK diplomat Ian Proud.

On February 28, 2026, Israel, with U.S. backing and perhaps operational support, ‘decapitated’ the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran by killing the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and two dozen more top Iranian leaders. The expectation stated explicitly by U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the collapse of the Islamic regime and the installation of a U.S.- and Israeli-friendly or at least -compliant Iranian leadership. Two months later the Iranian Islamic Republic stands.

It is clear now that Ukraine will not become a full EU member next year. The €90 billion loan will not be repaid by Russia, a story that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz keeps telling to cover his own incompetent diplomacy.

There have been a remarkable number of contradicting numbers about Russian losses coming from the Ukrainians and their western partners.

In a rare acknowledgment of the public criticism, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kremlin officials saw the video and that “a lot of work is being done” on the issues Bonya mentioned. “None of it is being ignored,” Peskov said.

Skidelsky was an active member of the House of Lords, where he made the case for a negotiated peace between Ukraine and Russia. “We in the west cannot stop Ukrainians fighting to the death if they so wish, but to encourage them to do this by holding out the illusory hopes of victory is, to my mind, grossly immoral,” he said.

Few concepts in contemporary international relations are invoked as often, or with as little precision, as ‘multipolarity’.

In a highly confrontational address to the UN Security Council, Russian Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia accused the European Union and foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas of deliberately escalating the Ukraine conflict and preparing for a major war with Moscow.

George and Ian discuss the November 2025 US National Security Strategy and how Trump’s failed Iran war has done many of the things the Strategy promised that America would not do. Adding to that, efforts at peace have twice acted as preludes to military strikes against Iran, eroding all trust on the Iranian side.

In the context of the present Cuba crisis, the 65th anniversary of the infamous Bay of Pigs debacle takes on renewed and immediate significance. The CIA-organized paramilitary effort to roll back the Castro revolution remains a cautionary history of the high costs of US intervention in Cuba—and elsewhere.

This week, TRR had the pleasure of speaking with the eminent scholar of Russia, Richard Sakwa, emeritus professor of politics at the University of Kent in the UK. His new book (his fifth since 2020) is called The Russo-Ukrainian War: Follies of Empire, which examines the root causes of the current conflict.

Comparing the U.S. intelligence community’s newly-released Annual Threat Assessment-2026 with the previous edition of this document reveals a change in how this community approaches analyzing Russia and other countries that negatively impact U.S. national security.

As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, it remains unclear when or how the conflict will end. But it will end, as all wars do, and when it does, both Ukraine and Russia will face the challenge of reintegrating thousands of soldiers back into their societies. Some veterans will return home resilient and ready to rejoin their communities; others will need physical, mental, and financial support for the rest of their lives. Both countries will face reintegration challenges requiring significant policy attention and financial resources, and Kyiv and Moscow are aware that there is no alternative to tackling the problem head-on.

Russia has lost interest for now in participating any time soon another round of talks with Washington and Kiev in the negotiation process kicked off by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War. The reasons are manifold and include the increasingly erratic and duplicitous behavior of Russia’s interlocutors, consequences emanating from the U.S./Israeli-Iranian or Third Gulf War, and growing dissatisfaction across Russia because of the behaviors and consequences, all of which I detail below.

The idea that peace in Ukraine would be premature remains predominant in a few major European capitals, especially London, as well as inside hawkish American think tanks which have invested their reputation in defeating Russia — a goal that appears to be further away than ever before. Two prominent foreign policy scholars, Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, put it far more candidly than Ischinger in a Foreign Affairs piece. “Most important, the US and Europe shouldn’t rush any talks to end the conflict,” they wrote.

Four years into the war in Ukraine, taboos around NATO’s role in its outbreak show signs of weakening.

In a recent televised rant on the Fox News Channel, the neoconservative publicist Mark Levin made the eye-opening claim that the current US-Israeli War on Iran is “every bit as important as World War Two.”

Never has humankind seen so much power concentrated in the hands of one so capricious.

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Europe has had only two options regarding its stance toward Russia: forever war or offering Russia a sensible peace and security pact.