“Could it be that in the West today, it is we who hate Russia for having its own distinctive roots, its own history and attachments?”

The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.

Maybe the F.B.I. thought I would be intimidated by the raid, and opt to remain silent out of fear of generating unwanted attention. But all it really accomplished that day was to execute a raid on peace, the author says.

In the aftermath of a deadly ambush of Russian troops operating alongside Malian armed forces, Damilola Banjo looks into fears of parts of Africa becoming a proxy war zone.

Tbilisi instigated the conflict with Moscow “on instructions from the outside,” the country’s ruling party has said

Andrew P. Napolitano on the Patriot Act’s destruction of the Fourth Amendment wall between law enforcement and spying.

The ‘Sentinel’ ICBM is the latest boondoggle to avoid cancellation due to massive industry investment in the right places

The sabotage of the pipelines that carried Russian gas to Europe has become one of the central mysteries of the war in Ukraine.

The recent collapse of nuclear weapons talks between China and the United States in July 2024, followed the withdrawal by the U.S. and Russia from long-established nuclear weapons treaties, like the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, (ABM) Intermediate-Range Forces Treaty (INF), and The Iran Nuclear Deal (JPCOA). Nuclear tensions have regressed to dangerous levels not seen since the Cold War.

Nato’​s cheerleaders like to call it the most successful multinational alliance in history. Part of that is down to its longevity. It turned 75 this year, and has now overtaken the Delian League between Greek city-states, formed in 478 BCE, which survived for 74 years. The Egyptian-Hittite ‘eternal treaty’ was in place for longer, though it included just two states, where Nato now has 32 members. But this is also a matter of definition: several Indigenous American confederacies – notably the Haudenosaunee, or Five (later Six) Nations, with some form of central council operating since at least the 16th century – can claim a longer lifespan. The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, signed into existence by 23 states in Rio in 1947, also predates Nato, though it isn’t celebrated in anything like the same way – perhaps because the US has a record of attacking the other signatories.