“Containing” China and Russia is the hip new idea in Washington and Brussels. What could possibly go wrong?

At a time when the subject of the looming threat of nuclear WWIII has become a routine in the political and media circles, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK, Jr.) takes center stage to participate in the peace efforts to repeat what his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and father, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. did before their assassination during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis, i.e., to save humanity from nuclear holocaust.

An analyst told Sputnik on Monday that Israel has shown that they are not fully protected in their conflict with Hamas and that a broadening war with Hezbollah will create a worse situation for Tel Aviv.

Former U.S. representative Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party to become an independent in 2022, has endorsed former president Donald Trump days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign and threw his support behind the Republican presidential nominee.

With the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US assumed that it would dominate the world as the unrivaled hegemon. Yet the US “unipolar” moment proved to be short-lived. US geopolitical dominance ended with the rise of China, the recovery of Russia from the period of Soviet collapse, and the rapid development of India. We have arrived at a new multipolar age.

I’d need to write a book to fully answer these questions crucial for the future of life on our planet. The truth is that I’m scared shitless about the global situation. To borrow a phrase from George Kennan, we are like lemmings blindly venturing toward the abyss of nuclear war. All the latest indications are increasingly ominous, but no leaders are doing what is necessary to avert this catastrophe. Instead, the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

Ukraine’s involvement in cutting off energy supplies to its own allies raises uncomfortable questions.

For more than three centuries, Russia has sought to forge friendship with the United States. But the substitution of rivalry for friendship would represent an unacceptable shock to the U.S. economic…

The ruling class knows that free people who have the liberty to dissent are more difficult to govern. It is harder to tell them what to do, and expect them to obey.

A bad peace is better than a good quarrel. Attributed to Cicero.