Foreign Policy

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BBC: the voice of the viscerally anti-Russian British Government

Today I call attention to the BBC’s role as the voice of the British Deep State.

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New CIA Director: Evidence Didn’t Support Brennan’s Explosive Trump-Russia Assessment

New CIA Director John Ratcliffe, above, said in written testimony, reported here for the first time, that the underlying evidence he’s seen doesn’t support predecessor John Brennan’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win.

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Traveler’s Moment

Unstable in the Soviet Union

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Unpredictable Trump

The whole world anxiously awaits the meeting between Trump and Putin, which will determine peace in Ukraine, Europe and the world as a whole.

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Opinion | How China and US can work together to end Ukraine war

Beijing and Washington should take the lead on a plan to offer a collective security guarantee to Kyiv and Moscow as a foundation for a deal

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Kyiv Mayor Feuds With Zelensky in Schism Over Martial Law

The mayor, Vitali Klitschko, who has had a tense relationship with President Volodymyr Zelensky, accused him of trying to usurp the powers of elected officials in the capital.

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Russia comes in from the cold, with flowers blooming around Moscow in January

January in Russia conjures up images of Muscovites crunching through the snow in bulky coats — not bunches of delicate snowdrops blooming in grassy areas around still-standing Christmas trees.

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Leah Gunn Barrett: Letter from Edinburgh: Britain Cannot Win

David Lammy recently declared that ‘the post-Cold War peace is well and truly over’ and that the UK’s biggest threat is from Russia which he proposes to meet by ramping up military spending. He calls this new approach ‘progressive realism’. It’s more accurate to term it “regressive delusionism”

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NATO Was Never About American Security

The evidence from the Soviet archives shows that Stalin’s policy during the 1947 pivot to Cold War was largely defensive and reactive. But even that departure from the cooperative modus operandi of the wartime alliance arose from what might well be described as an unforced error in Washington.

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EU debates return to Russian gas as part of Ukraine peace deal

European officials are debating whether Russian pipeline gas sales to the EU should be restarted as part of a potential settlement to end the war against Ukraine, according to people familiar with discussions.