Foreign Policy

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The “Russian hacking” NATO psyop has finally been solved

To professional analysts, it has long been clear that the “Russiagate” saga – including the “Russian hacking” claims, the Trump-Russia collusion claims, as well as the “Skripal poisoning incident” and the more recent “Navalny poisoning incident” – has been a […]

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What Is the Purpose of American Foreign Policy?

Several experts debated what is the purpose of America and U.S. power. (Excerpt) by Jacob Heilbrunn Many have asked what are American interests and what is the goal of U.S. foreign policy? The Center for the National Interest recently hosted […]

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NYT Still Stoking Alarm At “Russian Hacking”

By Ray McGovern Forget what Vice President Pence has suggested he might do this week regarding counting the votes for president and forget President Trump’s ominous military buildup near Iran, the Sunday NY Times two-column, above-the-fold lede tells us what […]

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Russian ‘Pearl Harbor’ is threat inflation of the worst kind

By Scott Ritter Over the course of the past decade, the United States has spent billions of dollars building a covert cyber warfare capability targeting Russia. In 2019 this capability was used to insert malware designed to threaten Russia’s power […]

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With less than seven weeks left before New START arms treaty expires, Russia once again urges US to sign extension

By Jonny Tickle The Russian Embassy in Washington has once again called on the US to extend the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), due to expire in February. The decision to end the agreement was made unilaterally by the […]

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An ‘Act of War?’ Avoiding a Dangerous Crisis in Cyberspace

The current U.S.-Russian confrontation is a state of relations one step removed from war. Engaging in consultations aimed at developing some basic rules of the road in cyberspace makes eminent sense. By Dmitri Trenin There’s a distinct feeling of deja […]

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Unsolicited recommendations for new administration

The approaching Biden-Harris administration is finding itself saturated by an avalanche of unsolicited advice from the media about what it should do once in office. By Edward Lozansky Until the recent news about hacking of U.S. government agencies, which was […]

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul: The new U.S. president will not seek friendship with Putin

Michael McFaul, a former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, a prominent representative of the Democratic Party in the United States and currently professor at Stanford University, in an interview with Interfax correspondent Ksenia Baigarova talks about relations between Moscow and Washington […]

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A Pandemic of ‘Russian Hacking’

Neither the actor, nor the motive, nor the damage done is known for certain in this latest scare story By Ray McGovern and Joe Lauria The hyperbolic, evidence-free media reports on the “fresh outbreak” of the Russian-hacking disease seems an […]

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To Blame Russia For Cyber-Intrusions Is Delusional – A Treaty Is The Only Way To Prevent More Damage

The New York Times continues to provide anti-Russian propaganda and to incite against it: Pompeo Says Russia Was Behind Cyberattack on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is the first member of the Trump administration to publicly link the Kremlin to the […]