After weeks of hysterically hyping the story that Russia is poised to invade Ukraine, Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby walked way back as Ukraine's own government officials called nonsense on the narrative. Was the whole thing just bluster for ratings? Also today:...
Human rights advocates reacted angrily Sunday to a leaked report suggesting that no Israeli soldiers are likely to be charged in connection with the fatal detention of an elderly Palestinian-American man by occupation forces in a West Bank town earlier this...
From Responsible Statecraft. The Russians want NATO to close its doors to Ukraine and all further expansion into Eastern Europe — this is the red line Moscow as declared. Quincy Institute senior fellow Anatol Lieven talks here about why the U.S. and NATO must decide...
The Biden Administration, followed by lapdog UK, appears determined to ratchet up tensions in Ukraine to the point where war is inevitable. From the publicity stunt of evacuating the US Embassy in Kiev to – laughably – accusing Moscow of planning a Ukraine coup, a...
Peter Beinart makes an interesting observation about the way most U.S. policymakers understand “great power competition” with China and Russia:What prevails today in Washington’s halls of power is a defense of unipolarity dressed up as a recognition that unipolarity...
On COI #220, Kyle Anzalone discusses the recent talks between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. While no deal was reached, the two diplomats were able to make progress on limited issues. However, after the talks ended,...
From a distance, one gets the impression that this past Friday’s face to face meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, could’ve been done over the phone. Both sides reiterated their differences and...
According to the U.S. government and mainstream media, Russian President Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine on the road to re-establishing former Soviet glory. This neatly fits US black hat / white hat caricature of the aggressive Russian Bear vs....
Contrary to my expectations, the 90 minute meeting of Blinken and Lavrov in Geneva yesterday appears to have had some justification and ended with a slightly improved prognosis for resolution of the crises, both those at the borders of Ukraine and those in bilateral...
The corporate-military-political complex that continues to renew the arsenals of the nine nuclear nations represents a colossal failure of imagination. Everyone knows that a nuclear war cannot be won, that the weapons are strategically useless, and that they are...
