The UK in particular appears still in thrall to Churchill’s famous dictum about Russia as a ‘riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’ and does not even try to understand

The world’s rising powers want the United States out of their neighborhoods.

NATO and the European Union have reached their limits. Here’s what should come next.

European scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to develop practical nuclear fusion – the energy process that powers the stars.

Are the West’s chickens coming home to roost? If the Western powers had gambled 2% of NATO’s budget and met the Soviet Union’s economic needs in President Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost era there would have been a much less de-stabilising transition and today there would have been a recognisable democracy. Then, having misjudged that window of opportunity, preferring Boris Yeltsin for reasons that now appear rather ludicrous- he seemed fresher, more pro-western and more democratic- they missed it again with Yeltsin’s first government. The West should have done with Russia what it did with Poland, effectively write off its debts. Or do what it did with its defeated enemies after World War 2, Japan and Germany- give them enough free money to get them back on their feet.

During the visit by President Vladimir Putin to Beijing on Friday, the world attention was focused on how far China would go in support of Russia in the latter’s standoff with the US and NATO. From the joint statement issued after the visit, China has given fulsome support to Russia, endorsing Moscow’s demand for security guarantee and its opposition to NATO expansion, the two core issues.

The question remains, are US policy elites aware of how their actions are perceived abroad, or do they know and just don’t care?

There are three likely explanations, most with an interest in getting the UK a geopolitical upper hand.

The fatal mistake committed by Brussels in 2014 was to force Kiev to make an impossible choice between Europe and Russia.

The German admiral’s frank remarks contradict the war hysteria being drummed up by the U.S. and Britain, Joe Lauria reports.