US-Russia Relations

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Uber Russia-hawk Victoria Nuland rises to acting deputy secretary of state

She’s done as much as anyone to sour US-Russia ties; now, she is one of Washington’s top diplomats.

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Kennedy accuses Biden of preparing for ‘war with Russia’

The US leader should acknowledge his “failure” in Ukraine and focus on domestic issues, the presidential candidate has said

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Diplomacy Watch: Washington may deny it, but looks like someone wants to talk to Russia

Experts have made the case in recent months that such openings are crucial to avoiding a vicious circle of mistrust and protracted war

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4th of July, and “The Other America”

For the last 30 years, I have celebrated July 4th Independence Day with Russian and American friends either in Moscow or Washington. Sometimes I did it at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and often placed the full-page Ads in the Washington Times with the greetings from Russia to America.

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Is Revolt in Russia Good for America?

The Wagner Group’s short-lived mutiny seems to have weakened Putin—but that isn’t necessarily a win for Washington.

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Will upcoming NATO summit launch forever war in Europe?

Pressure is mounting to make some sort of formal declaration over Ukraine’s membership at meetings in Vilnius next month.

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State of the War: Hope, Fear and the Sound of Silence

US policy makers in the Biden administration and the thousands of hyenas in the Washington and London think tanks who eagerly run after the Pentagon, eager to devour any droppings of Conventional Wisdom it excretes, were caught between Hope and Fear this weekend.

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VIDEO: Jeffrey Sachs at the Conference for Peace in Vienna

In this video, watch Professor Jeffrey Sachs speak with Dr. Heinz Gärtner at the International Conference for Peace in Vienna (June 2023). Dr. Sachs’ lays out clearly and succinctly how belligerent the foreign policy of the United States is and how a small group of elites keeps dragging the country’s diplomacy to the brink of nuclear war—time and again.

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Partners In Doomsday

As Ukraine begins a counter-offensive and Biden’s hawks look on, new rhetoric out of Russia points to a revival of the nuclear threat

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A Forgotten History

If the narrative we followed brought us to this, of what use was the narrative?