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What the diplomat got right about Russia and the West.

America’s 37th president tried to save America’s Russia policy in the 1990s.

One US government official has had her finger on the pulse of America’s relationship with Ukraine longer than most. But her recent talk to an audience in Kyiv is raising concerns.

For the record: I was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in America as a laser fusion researcher and Professor of Mathematics and Physics. I - Edward Lozansky for Antiwar.com Original

Irked with the uncertainty over membership, Ukrianian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted the alliance as it was a personal setback for him; he had harboured hopes that the Vilnius summit would culminate in a concrete invitation for Ukraine to join the alliance. In scathing criticism, Zelensky termed this Nato stance ‘unprecedented and absurd‘ when there is no time frame set ‘neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine‘s membership‘. He was also upset with vague wording about added co...

Being a nuclear power has given strength and autonomy to India’s strategic decision-making. Today, it has the leverage and moral stature to take the lead in working with the international community to reduce the risk of use of nuclear weapons — something to which India’s leaders have always been committed

Thursday (June 5) marks the 10th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s passing and a look through the MRC’s archives shows that during his presidency many in the liberal media couldn’t withhold their contempt of the conservative icon. From depicting Reagan as a puppet of the rich whose economic policies were cruel towards the poor and minorities, to denying his foreign policy vision helped lead to the downfall of the Soviet Union, the media did their best to trash the 40th President. Th...

Gary Saul Morson on “Collapse The Fall of the Soviet Union” by Vladislav M. Zubok.

For decades, Washington has worried more about saving Russia than helping countries Moscow attacked. Nato stayed passive in the face of Putins repeated provocations.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is probably a good film, but there are issues ex ante that may be discussed – even if they draw from ‘dead ideologies’.