In this video, we start by asking Prof. Petro what is a reasonable historical timeline to understand this conflict.

Stealing other countries’ money is not Washington’s best look. It erodes confidence in the entire American financial architecture – the dollar, USD as reserve currency, U.S. banks, U.S. Treasuries – when that confidence already is at an all-time low. Yet it is exactly what Congress is poised to do. On February 15, GOP senator Rand Paul decried legislation allowing the White House “to confiscate Russia’s frozen sovereign assets in the United States and transfer them to Ukraine,” in an article in Responsible Statecraft. Moscow’s foreign assets, to the tune of $300 billion, were seized by the West after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. They shouldn’t have been.

Washington seeks to defend the rules-based order with unruly, self-interested interventions

When Napoleon engaged Russia in a European land war, the Russians mounted a determined defense, and the French lost. When Hitler tried the same, the Soviet Union responded similarly, and the Germans lost. In World War 1 and its post-revolutionary civil war (1914-1922), first Russia and then the USSR defended with far greater effect against two invasions than the invaders had calculated. That history ought to have cautioned U.S. and European leaders to minimize the risks of confronting Russia, especially when Russia felt threatened and determined to defend itself.

Political scientist, international relations scholar John Mearsheimer joins Piers Morgan Uncensored to debate Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the war in the Middle East and more. He uncovers the reasoning behind some of his more controversial views, telling Piers Morgan why he thinks Ukraine’s already lost the war against Russia.

When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America, as the sole remaining superpower, could impose its will and leadership across the globe. ‘An American century’, ‘indispensable nation’, ‘the unipolar moment’, ‘benign hegemony’ – these became the new buzz-words of Washington’s political class.

The resignation of the US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, the third highest ranking diplomat in the Biden administration, came as a bolt out of the blue on Monday.

Repeated threats by Biden and his advisors about their intention to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia while its military doctrine orders using nuclear weapons in the face of such developments prove that a nuclear war is on the horizon, if not by design, then by accident.

James Galbraith challenges common perceptions about western sanctions and their impact on Russia, revealing unexpected outcomes for its economy and development.

When the legendary and ultra-cunning French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, a notorious diplomatic plotter and intriguer all his life, finally died at the ripe age of 84 in 1838, the great Austrian diplomat and cynic Prince Klemens von Metternich exclaimed ‘I wonder what he meant by that.”