Remarks to the Massachusetts Peace Action Campaign

This Era Is A Russian World

Col. (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson’s last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02).

CrossTalking with Pascal Lottaz, Matthew Ehret, and Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann

In a discussion with Dialogue Works, Professor Petro discusses the tensions between NATO and Russia and the ongoing risks of escalation.

‘We have just learned that for the first time since 1945, the German army has landed boots on territory outside of the Fatherland, but this is nothing to get excited about for the former supporters of the mighty Wehrmacht, given that just 20 volunteers have arrived in Vilnius, ahead of what we are told will eventually be a force of 5,000 German troops expected to set up camp in Lithuania. Mein Gott, indeed, you might be excused from thinking. Yes, in their wisdom, and to be honest, in a move which goes against all that Germany only a few years stood for, German troops are once again on the march.

The Armenian prime minister may not know it, but he is playing a dangerous game.

The dynamic of mass-psychology in the West has reached a perverse level at which not only advocacy for deescalation is blamed as an act of treason, but the decrepit state of domestic economies is pinned on the enemy, which only reinforces calls for the ‘necessity of fighting’ the imaginary devil at the gates of the shining city on the hill. But the obsession goes even further than that…

NATO will be 75 years old on 4 April 2024 — two days from now. Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editorial director and publisher of The Nation, organized a panel to discuss the state of NATO today. Pascal Lottaz is the moderator. The three discussants are Anatol Lieven, Ambassador Jack Matlock, and myself.

‘When talking about the ‘Putin Enigma’, we would first of all need to clarify exactly what the accepted definition of an enigma is, and does Vladimir Putin, the individual, warrant that rather lofty description, because the connotation here being that this person is something very special, exceptional.