American Committee for US-Russia Accord

Since the February 2022 Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised that his country would prevail in the ensuing war, and that victory would include not only the reclamation of its territory up to the prewar borders, but also all of its territory up to the 2014 borders, including the Donbas and Crimea.

The fall of the Baath state in Syria is a serious defeat for Russia (and a disaster for Iran). It would however be a grave mistake to assume that this by necessity makes it a success for the United States.

Moscow and Washington may indeed now face similar challenges in Syria.

During his presidential campaign, Trump pledged that if he won, he would end the war within 24 hours, even before moving into the White House. This didn’t happen, and moreover, the fighting kept escalating. So, one would assume the real action would start after January 20, 2025, but the team he chooses to fulfill this pledge does raise mixed feelings.

Pascal Lottaz and Ambassador Chas Freeman give an update on the tragic situation in Syria.

CNN’s Fred Pleitgen sat down for a wide-ranging exclusive interview with Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister.

Nixon’s secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Reagan’s ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock debated the future of NATO and Russia during the Budapest Summit on Dec. 5, 1994. Robert MacNeil moderated the discussion.

There is a growing realization that voters’ dissatisfaction with inflation resulted in Donald Trump’s election victory last month. But almost no attention has been placed on one of the major contributors to this inflation: the war in Ukraine, and the decision to repeatedly reject negotiating its end.

America has a bellicose, bullying, immature leadership that thinks military might is the answer to everything, as reflected by U.S. Special Forces in 80+ countries and roughly 800 bases globally. That global presence is unsustainable. It is also folly.

The significance of ATACMS lies not in their results on the battlefield, but in the expertise required to use them.

On November 21, just two days after Ukraine acted for the first time on U.S. permission to fire Western supplied long-range missiles deeper into Russia, Russia launched a missile attack on a military base in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The base houses the missile and space company Pivdenmash, which produces missiles, rockets, satellites and engines.

A clip of Colby discussing the new right’s foreign policy with Tucker Carlson.

President Zelensky’s latest suggestions for how to end the fighting in Ukraine are not yet the basis for a peace settlement, but they contain some hopeful pointers towards one. They should form the starting point of the incoming Trump administration’s negotiations with both Moscow and Kyiv.

Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.) is one of the most innovative thinkers of our time. In today’s Liberty Report he explains his recently-published detailed blueprint for a less expensive – and better – US military and a safer America.

It hardly needs pointing out that wisdom has not been among the defining characteristics of the Biden administration, the titular head of which spent the previous three decades loudly claiming that it was inconceivable that NATO expansion would provoke a Russian response. Better minds and men knew differently.

Eight years ago, when Trump was elected president for the first time, Gorka was one of his more controversial appointments as “deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs,” that is, deputy national security adviser.  That’s a hugely important position.  The deputy national security advisor assists the president in managing the entire intelligence community and manages the administration’s anti-terrorism efforts.  But Gorka immediately ran into trouble.

As it turned out, Gorka was, apparently, a sworn member of Hungary’s neo-Nazi Vitezi Rend, or “Order of Heroes,” a group that the State Department says was “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany during World War II” and which continues to be neo-Nazi in its orientation.

Gorka only became an American citizen in 2012, and membership should have disqualified him not only from citizenship, but even from entering the United States in the first place.

Furthermore, at Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, Gorka actually wore the uniform and badge of the Vitezi Rend, and the Times of Israel newspaper reported that he may even have inherited them from his Nazi grandfather.

ATACMs, Storm Shadows, Scalp, etc., can only be fired with the participation of U.S., British, and/or French officers, making them and their countries direct combatants in a war against Russia.

Matthew Miller tries to square a circle.

For almost a year the theme of “permitting” Ukraine to use the ATACMS and Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles for strikes into Russia’s interior has served as clickbait to offset Ukraine’s steady loss of ground.