US-Russia Relations

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Looking back at a ‘Golden Age’ of US-Russia diplomacy

Unfortunately Lynne Tracy, Biden’s nominee to be the next ambassador to Russia, reflects the stale views of the more recent past.

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The Prospect of Nuclear War Is Getting too Close for Comfort

Biden Regime Secretary of State Blinken has blocked negotiations between Russia and Ukraine by declaring it is US policy to drive Russia out of the reincorporated territories, including Crimea.

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From the Archives: Stephen F. Cohen: Searching for Common Ground in U.S.-Russian Relations

“The Putin that is so irrationally demonized in America today, this Putin is the almost inevitable result of these unwise American policies. He is the effect, not the cause,” says Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at NYU and Princeton.

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Americans Dumbed Down on Russia

Five years ago today, Congress learned from sworn, horse’s-mouth testimony that there is no technical evidence that Russia (or anyone else) hacked the DNC emails showing how the DNC had stacked the deck against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination.

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Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a “Good Guy”? New Film Says Yes.

Controversial New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicist Named Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 1950-51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust

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How Russia Views America

In invading Ukraine, Russia acted in a way that few in the West predicted. Intelligence agencies did warn of Russian troop movements on the Ukrainian border in the weeks leading up to the attack, and a general wariness toward Russia has been prevalent among Western leaders for years. But few expected an outright invasion in early 2022, and seemingly little preparation was made for such an eventuality.

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How Russia Sees U.S. Sanctions

It is the macroeconomic course of Western nations, and above all the United States, that has become the root cause of most of the current problems.

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Reflections on the ‘Stupid and Wicked’

During an interview with the BBC in 1959, Bertrand Russell was asked about his efforts campaigning for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Some things, I think, are self-evident, and the desirability of avoiding a nuclear holocaust is one of them. Advocating for the elimination of genocidal weaponry should require very little further justification, but Russell was courteous and responded by saying, “I can’t bear the thought of many hundreds of millions of people dying in agony, only and solely because the rulers of the world are stupid and wicked.”

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Why Americans will keep accusing Russia and China of ‘election interference’

Blaming foreign actors for the choices your voters make is simply too convenient

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When pipeline politics go boom

We may never know who sabotaged Nordstream 2. But it wasn’t the first, nor likely the last casualty of such fierce geopolitical conflict.