American Committee for US-Russia Accord

In Europe, the us exercises hegemony over what were, before 1945, its great-power rivals—in one case its former colonial master, now head servant.

Forty years on from Chernobyl, the catastrophe lingers in the public imagination as the worst nuclear disaster in history — a verdict reinforced by HBO’s mini-series and the Netflix retelling. But what if the lasting damage was not radiological but psychological: a global aversion to nuclear power that condemned Europe and North America to decades of energy precarity, dependence on Russian gas and American LNG, and the de-industrialisation now hollowing out Germany?

False historical narratives abound in our contentious and divided world, as leaders and complicit historians endeavor to use public understanding of the past to push policies and gain control in the present. One of the most egregious cases is the widely accepted account of the decision by U.S. leaders to drop the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 of 1945, respectively.

Just when sensible people might conclude that American or European members of Ukraine’s sycophantic fan club cannot become even more detached from reality, a prominent member of the club proves the opposite.  This time, it is conservative pundit David French, who wins the prize in his April 26, 2026, New York Times column, “Meet the New Leader of the Free World.”   That leader is Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

War hysteria in Germany has reached a new level. Even churches are now preparing to serve the warmongers uncritically.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been very publicly aggressive in expressing his anger at NATO. He told NATO members they will “have to start learning how to fight for yourself” because “the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us.” Asked if he would reconsider U.S. membership in NATO, Trump replied, “Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration.”

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.