The majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.

It’s a pity when a 760-page history of the Russian leadership’s thinking during the Cold War period, 1945 to 2022, earns consignment to the waste bin within the first nineteen pages, and in just three sentences. This ratio of toxicity to prolixity – 1 to 40 — is exceptional, although the price asked for it by the publisher, Cambridge University Press — £30, $34.95 — isn’t so exorbitant as to exclude using the book as a doorstopper.

Robert Amsterdam has practised international human rights law for over 40 years. Since 2003, He has served as legal counsel to figures from Russia’s political opposition and he was recipient of The American Lawyer’s Global Pro Bono Dispute of the Year award in 2013.

MOSCOW, Nov 6 (Reuters) – The Kremlin reacted cautiously on Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, saying the U.S. was still a hostile state and that only time would tell if Trump’s rhetoric on ending the Ukraine war translated into reality.

Experts: Kyiv is losing no matter who takes the White House. The question is, who will end it before time runs out?

Less Reliance on America Would Yield a Stronger Alliance and a Safer Europe

The media is changing the narrative as the proxy war is running out of steam

The White House admits that its $61 billion proxy war infusion failed, while handing Zelensky a new humiliation.

For over two and a half years, a semi-proxy war has been raging in Ukraine. In a proxy war, two powers avoid direct conflict by fighting through weaker intermediary partners. The Russia-Ukraine war is a semi-proxy war because one power, Russia, is directly involved, while the other power, the U.S. and its Western partners, fights through the Ukrainian intermediary. Ukraine was in a position to attain its goals in the first weeks of the war when it initialed the draft treaty in Istanbul. Since then, when the U.S. discouraged those talks and promised Ukraine all the military support it needs for as long as it needs it, Ukraine has been fighting as a Western proxy in pursuit of U.S. goals, including maintaining U.S. hegemony and asserting NATO’s right to expand wherever it pleases.

Below are a number of New York Times headlines which represent the propaganda narrative about Ukraine as it has changed over time.

Pessimism pervades Kyiv and Washington about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as President Volodymr Zelensky tries to steer his country through the war’s third winter.

I started listening to George Beebe a few years ago when he was warning about tensions in Ukraine, the real risk of escalation to nuclear war and the dangers of groupthink. Back in 2021 he assessed that Russia was likely to invade Ukraine given the combination of the US’s determination to bring the country into NATO and the fact that it was a “now-or-never moment” for Moscow to stop this happening. Years earlier, US Ambassador to Moscow, and now CIA director, William Burns had urgently cabled Washington to warn that the Russians regarded Ukraine as ‘the reddest of red lines’:

By not acting with political and moral courage, this administration has actually failed abysmally on numerous counts

A river runs through Russian and, more recently, Ukrainian history. Ironically enough, the Dnieper River that unites Russia and Ukraine in this and other ways – the river rises in the Valdai Hills of Smolensk, Russia and runs through Belarus and Ukraine – is now the focus of the greatest schism in the history of Russian-Ukrainian relations. Russian forces appear impossible to stop and will arrive at the Dnieper at some point along its snaking length no later than next year, with Russian troops perhaps controlling the river’s and the country’s Left Bank by then. Russia – as well as the West and whatever remains of Ukraine‘s Maidan regime will then face some serious decisions.

The world is now moving through an epoch-shifting transition, and a new system will be brought online as the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives time bomb that has cancerously taken over the western economy crashes.

I spoke persistently, but they would not listen. Jeremiah 12:23

Oh, Wait: It never went away…

Hello! Welcome to your weekly guide to the Russian economy — written by Denis Kasyanchuk and Alexander Kolyandr and brought to you by The Bell. This time we look at the rapid growth in investment that Russia has seen since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Where has the money come from? And where is it going? We also look at the continuing impact on Russian trade of the threat of Western secondary sanctions.

I will try not to repeat the well-known demonstrations – wilfully ignored in certain official circles – that the tragic conflict between Ukraine and Russia was completely avoidable had the Western Alliance not fostered and organized a coalition of revisionist militant forces within Ukraine and in Eastern Europe committed to an openly anti-Russian agenda. So many scholarly and talented experts and public figures have argued that thesis, from John Mearsheimer to Sahra Wagenknecht and from Emmanuel Todd to Robert F Kennedy Jr., but by looking at European history, we can notice precedents that show a geopolitical pattern into which the current protracted war finds its place.

Yeltsin grinned while Clinton cried.

Conservatives plan a Soviet University

Russia’s top envoy to the United States has ended his term, leaving behind an ominous forecast about the risk of deteriorating bilateral ties escalating into a nuclear-armed clash over the ongoing war in Ukraine in an exclusive interview with Newsweek.

In Moscow, a birch tree that’s meant to symbolize U.S.-Russian friendship has several times failed to thrive, as Edward Lozansky recounts. But citizen diplomats keep trying.

Its leaves are brittle and brown, but the birch tree, recently planted in a small Moscow park as a hopeful symbol of enduring friendship between Russia and the United States, will grow green and strong again if Edward Lozansky is to realize his lifelong mission.