US President-elect Donald Trump’s statements about acquiring Greenland not exempting economic or military means received critical reactions from Russian officials. They called the development “dramatic” and predict “uncertainty and tension in the region.” Some Russian political commentators celebrated Trump’s statements while others expressed skepticism and noted the potential implications for Russia.

The feds are still lying and obfuscating about the Russiagate conspiracy against Donald Trump: Witness the recent release, years late and heavily redacted, of a document about the origin of the FBI probe.

America’s proxy war with Russia isn’t anything new. It’s been decades in the making. Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick explain what nuclear war would actually look like.

The US stands as the primary economic beneficiary of the pipeline bombings

Ukraine loses billions in transit fees, Europe faces soaring energy prices, with Russia largely insulated from the fallout

The present severed from the past is easily misunderstood. In discussions of the Russia-Ukraine war, not enough is made of the historical facts that, at the end of the Cold War, the newly independent Ukraine promised not to join NATO, and NATO promised not to expand to Ukraine.

E. Wayne Merry is a retired diplomat who served at the US embassy in Moscow from 1990 to 1994. The National Security Archive of George Washington University just published for the first time a dissent cable that he sent in 1994, titled  Whose Russia Is It Anyway—Toward a Policy of Benign Respect. The cable eloquently laid out Merry’s objections to the economic policies (which came to be known as “shock therapy”) that were being collectively pushed by the Undersecretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers, the US Treasury Department, the Economic section of the US Embassy in Moscow, and a coterie of economists from Harvard during the 1990s. What follows is a wide-ranging interview I conducted with Merry on January 7th, 2025. — James W. Carden

In a parting gesture of defiance, the FBI releases a long-awaited document, blotting most of it out. Journalist Aaron Maté explains why the Bureau’s FOIA follies matter

Călin Georgescu tops survey despite allegations that Moscow aided his bid

Defeat, it is said, is a better teacher than success. The US Democratic Party has just suffered a shattering defeat, and desperately needs to learn from it. In the area of foreign policy, at least, this however appears unlikely — at least to judge by two interviews given by outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the New York Times and Financial Times.