The so-called “rules-based international order” aims to facilitate a hegemonic world, which entails displacing international law. While international law is based on equal sovereignty for all states, the rules-based international order upholds hegemony on the principle of sovereign inequality.

Vladimir Putin’s envoy says more than 10 units are being built in countries such as China, Iran and Turkey

Embassy dissent argued against U.S. push for radical economic reform. Top political officer predicted U.S. focus on markets over democratic institution-building would turn Russia anti-American and “adversarial”. National Security Archive wins release of long-withheld cable through FOIA lawsuit.

States don’t tend to kill each other’s generals, not least because it invites reciprocal action. The bombing in Moscow this week, killing General Igor Kirillov, was a successful attack by Ukraine and its allies. The ongoing use of long-range missiles by the West to hit targets inside Russia is, I suggest, surprisingly similar. both are designed to provoke a reaction rather than to achieve anything militarily. They can’t alter battlefield realities. It says a lot about where we have got to in the Ukraine war.

Europe’s top buyer France imported record volumes this year. Russia is second largest LNG supplier to EU after US

The vaccines will be administered starting early 2025.

Mark Rutte wants Cold War spending but Russia is in no way the same adversary, calling into question real motives

The U.S. is at risk of being buffaloed into a bloody war of regional realignment in the wake of Syria’s collapse.