Bill Clinton’s wholesale rejection of his predecessor’s Russia policy laid the groundwork for the current crisis between Russia and the West.

On the 2020 campaign trail, Joe Biden said the U.S. should never be the first to use nuclear weapons. “There is no first use doctrine we should be pushing,” he said. But a new administration review has reiterated the long-term policy that the U.S. will launch nuclear weapons in response to non-nuclear attacks. It once again underscores the power of the military-industrial-congressional complex to maintain the status quo, even when it poses civilization-ending dangers.

On October 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would not use nuclear weapons; on the same day, US President Joe Biden said he would.

Jake Sullivan has had confidential discussions with Russian counterparts amid concerns over escalation, nuclear threats

Subsequent efforts to cut arsenals or keep weapons from ‘bad guys’ have inured the public from the real danger: the nukes themselves.

The former American ambassador spoke at a recent retrospective on the Cuban Missile Crisis and lamented the lessons lost.

Speaking on Oct. 27 at the Valdai International Discussion Club, Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the sanity of those who would “spoil relations with China at the same time they are supplying billions-worth of weapons to Ukraine in a fight against Russia.”

In an episode that could have hardly been more emblematic of the present state of US left-liberalism, the Congressional Progressive Caucus published, then retracted within fewer than 24 hours, a joint letter that putatively called on President Biden to seek a diplomatic resolution to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

By confiscating frozen Russian funds and giving them to Ukraine, the West could be shooting itself in the foot

Special Counsel John Durham begins Tuesday what may be the final trial in the Russia collusion probe, seeking to convince a federal jury that the primary source of the now-discredited Steele dossier lied repeatedly to the FBI.