In his latest broadside in the Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Meade takes aim at a body that most Americans have never heard of–the Shanghai Cooperation Organization [SCO]— and its annual summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan [“The Clumsy Push to Disrupt the World Order”, WSJ, September 20].

The Russo-German relationship is essential for shaping the broader environment that European states inhabit.

The clock is ticking fast and if we miss this opportunity now, the only peace the world may ever find will accompany a long nuclear winter.

In the year 2000 George W. Bush became the victor of an imperfect presidential election. The less than straightforward way that Bush won and, in particular, how obvious it became that the U.S. Supreme Court had become a political creature, raised the profound worry that this would rub off on many parts of the world.

If the Europeans were willing to buy, would the Russians be willing to sell?

Last week the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) board of governors voted to go to war with Russia by a vote of 26 member countries against 9.

In the official Chinese and Russian statements regarding Thursday’s meeting between Presidents XI Jinping and Vladimir Putin in Samarkand lies not a scintilla of evidence that China’s support for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has weakened.

The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fuelled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession

What Russia seeks is new political leadership across the Western world that does not support a status quo that can isolate Russia from the capital and technology it needs to generate security and prosperity over the long term.

If there was ever a time for the leaders and ordinary inhabitants of this planet to realize that the existing world’s security architecture has to undergo a substantial reset, the time is now.