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  Executive Summary • Despite the Biden administration’s push to revitalize U.S. alliances, U.S. relations with NATO are due for a reset. The United States should incentivize European members of NATO to take on additional responsibilities for their defense. • Encouraging the European allies to take initiative will help the United States focus on its other domestic and international priorities and may facilitate improving relations with Russia. This approach will also prove attractive to...

The End of a Very Long Year for U.S.-Russian Relations - Russian Roulette Episode 108 In this last Russian Roulette episode of the year, Heather sits down with Ambassador John J. Sullivan, the U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation and former Deputy Secretary of State. They discuss the highlights (the power of hockey diplomacy) and low points (the imprisonment of Paul Whelan) of his tenure as Ambassador, why there wasn’t a New START extension this year, as well as the impact of the changes...

What’s new? After years of political turmoil, elections for Venezuela’s National Assembly ended in a predictable victory for President Nicolás Maduro. Mainstream opposition parties boycotted the poll and, alongside the U.S. and Latin American and European countries, accuse the government of rigging the elections. Why does it matter? Elimination of the opposition majority in parliament will greatly complicate efforts to resolve the standoff with the government. The boycott split the opp...

The crisis in ukraine are not moving forward. i believe that an open and honest dialogue is key for solid partnership we have to be able to figure out if we are still playing by the same rules. talks instead of bigger illusions germanys new foreign minister struck a new path in german russian relations. well a warning to europe from the french president emmanuel microns speaking in the german city of today said that the idea of european integration has been thrown into doubt and whether it lives...

Probably the worst in u.s./russian relations since the end of the cold war. >> reporter: right. and its escalating. this is the first time in two weeks president obama has spoken to putin by phone. usually when you get the summary from each side of what exactly was discussed, it seems as if two entirely different conversations have taken place. theyre just so vastly different. at this point, though, all we have is the russian readout of what was talked about. and in it, the kremlin says that the...