American Committee for US-Russia Accord

What emerges from the dramatic happenings of the past week is that the 3-year chronicle of US-Russia rivalry and the NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine was a crisis engineered with great deliberation by the Anglo-American nexus per a pernicious agenda conceived by the neocon liberals wedded to globalism ensconced in the Washington and London establishment to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

President Trump has stated that he has begun to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to put an end the war between Ukraine and Russia “immediately.” Yet to do so, he will need to think and act outside the stereotypes of narrow neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinking that have governed the post-Cold War era.

Following Trump’s inauguration, Institute for Peace and Diplomacy-USA convened a symposium with leading experts in U.S. foreign policy, European affairs, and U.S.-Russia relations to bring much-needed clarity and intellectual rigor to this debate. We asked them: “What key measures should the United States and President Trump adopt to increase the likelihood of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and achieve a more durable settlement?”

U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about starting negotiations immediately to end the war in Ukraine. “We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskiy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the Trump administration does not support NATO membership for Ukraine. Hegseth’s comments came during a meeting in Brussels on Ukrainian security.

The Ukrainian government has shown little interest in looking into corruption, organized crime, or arms dealing.

“The United States may need to restart explosive nuclear weapons testing,” declared Robert Peters, research fellow for nuclear deterrence and missile defense at The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing organization close to the Trump administration, in a lengthy report last month.  Issued on January 15, it was titled: “America Must Prepare to Test Nuclear Weapons.”

A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate catastrophe—a nuclear war. But you would be wrong.

Evgeny P. Velikhov died on December 5, 2024, at the age of 89. He was the most important technical contributor to Mikhail Gorbachev’s successful efforts to end the Soviet-US nuclear arms race and to make deep cuts in their nuclear arsenals.

Born in 1935, Velikhov was educated in physics at Moscow State University and did his dissertation work at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow, where one of us (Sagdeev) met him and became his life-long colleague and friend.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s remarks about resettling the Palestinians from Gaza and establishing American ownership of the Strip were shocking and would ramp up tensions in the Middle East.

MOSCOW, Feb 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about ending the war in Ukraine, the New York Post reported, the first officially acknowledged conversation between Putin and a U.S president since early 2022.

Russia is open to negotiations but only based on current territorial realities.

USAID funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to think tanks such as “New Citizen” which spurred the original 2014 protests in Ukraine that eventually led to a coup against the country’s democratically elected leader Viktor Yanukovych.

These USAID-funded protests were eventually taken over by far-right groups such as the Svoboda party and the Right Sector. Right Sector committed a sniper massacre that killed 51 protests which they then blamed on Yanukovych in order to overthrow him in a violent coup.

In an open letter to J.D. Vance, the prominent Catholic publicist George Weigel has argued that the defeat of Russia in Ukraine is essential to the causes of democracy, Christian virtue, and world peace.

Paul Grenier, in the following Landmarks essay, argues that Weigel is only able to make such a case by engaging in a series of distortions — firstly, of the history of the Ukraine war, and secondly, regarding the nature of political order under Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US army officer, former Chief of Staff of the Secretary of State, and a member of  “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.”  He speaks about how US power structures function and the military-political process actually works.

It was only a few weeks ago that Russian President Vladimir V. Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met to ink the historic Russo-Iranian Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.  The pact itself was a milestone, so much so that commentators around the world are still widely discussing its implications.  Perhaps one of the most striking elements of the treaty is the major focus on Eurasia.  Although Western analysts tend to focus on Russo-Iranian cooperation in the Middle East, the treaty indicates that Eurasia is of even more immediate geopolitical significance to both Moscow and Tehran.  To historians and long-time observers of Iran and Russia, this is hardly a surprise.  The Eurasian region – that is, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Caspian Sea – forms an integral part of the common Russo-Iranian neighborhood. [Read more…] about ACURA Exclusive: Pietro A. Shakarian: Russia, Iran, and the Caucasian Chalk Circle

A leaked document has given us a first glimpse at Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian online newspaper Strana, U.S. officials handed the plan to European diplomats who then passed it on to Ukraine.

Leading the charge against Gabbard on the Senate Intelligence Committee is ranking member Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia who, like his counterpart Adam Schiff (then serving as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence), spent four years lying to the American people about Donald Trump’s alleged connections to the Kremlin.