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While these comprehensive peace agreements with Russia and China would not be without challenges, they would provide an unprecedented opportunity for Biden to secure his presidential legacy as a transformational peace president while also serving to safeguard vital U.S. national security interests.

Vyacheslav Nikonov: We are not in the usual studio in Ostankino but in the Foreign Ministry's historic mansion on Spiridonovka Street. This is where the Limited Test Ban Treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and...

The January 3 statement should be seen as a very small, but still important, step in the right direction.

Security talks saw the US and NATO make some important concessions, but not on core issues A diplomatic marath

China has several thousand ballistic missiles, most of them known to be armed only with a variety of conventional (non-nuclear) warheads It turns out China has a lot more of these than earlier believed Another revelation is that China considers nuclear

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

High-stakes talks between the U.S. and Russia failed to yield a breakthrough Monday as the Biden administration tries to ward off an invasion of Ukraine. 

"Impasse, Deadlock" says The Washington Post describing the outcome of the high-level U.S.-Russia talks Monday, with a tone of - Ray McGovern for Antiwar.com Original

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Russia's deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov, who led the Russian delegation, told reporters after the nearly eight-hour meeting that the talks were "very professional" and repeated that Moscow had no intention of attacking Ukraine​.