Mate argues that the US and NATO provoked Russia in Ukraine by expanding NATO, dismantling arms control, installing military assets threatening Russia, meddling in Ukraine, and blocking multiple opportunities for peace.

As if two world wars born in Europe were not enough, an increasingly divided Europe is seeking unity through militarization and hyperbolic fear of Russia, writes Uroš Lipušcek.

Let’s hope small steps develop into something lasting.

A French official’s bizarre speech itemizing paranoid calamities while lambasting Trump as a ‘traitor’ is just staving off the inevitable

Boris Johnson admits that Ukrainian extremists undermined peace in Ukraine. But as a Ukrainian negotiator’s overlooked account reveals, they received a key helping hand from him and the US.

Just as the U.S. and Russia begin negotiations to try to reestablish mutually beneficial cooperation, the Trans-Arctic Partnership Forum entitled “Arctic: Territory for Dialogue” in Murmansk (March 26-27) becomes an emblematic example of the path that, leaving behind wars and destruction, leads toward peace and progress.

This article explores the contours of European Union politics as they are emerging in the course of the disintegration of the European Union project.

The UK is clinging on by its teeth to the mantra that it will “support Ukraine for as long as it takes.” Since Trump’s public announcement that Ukraine would never become a member of NATO, and the alliance‘s Secretary General‘s admission to the same effect, it should be clear that “as long as it takes” is now well over. But, as so often, the Europeans are the last to get the message. The UK, France and some lone outposts of Empire are still serving the “boots ok the ground” rhetoric, when it has become utterly clear that this war is lost.

The Arctic Council (AC) comprises eight Arctic States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States, plus six Permanent Participants representing Indigenous people. It was established on 19 September 19, 1996, when the founders signed the Ottawa Declaration. So far, this group has done little to develop the region, which has remained a blank spot on the world map. President Trump recently stepped in, but besides unfriendly takeovers by the US of Greenland and Canada, there is another way that is good for all AC members and, actually, for every other nation in the world since it concentrates on win-win cooperation instead of endless wars.

Hockey diplomacy: Can Putin and Trump revive a Cold War tradition?