U.S. pundits and strategic experts seem blissfully unaware of how close we all are to being fried in a nuclear strike by Russia. (Fair Labeling: if you are simply looking for yet another reason to demonize Putin, rather than to understand where he is coming from, save time and read no further.)

The ‘great expropriation’ will come to be regarded as a turning point — one which the great powers of the world will likely regret.

So far the White House is resisting direct US involvement in Ukraine. But plans to bolster weapons and assistance may have consequences.

The president’s red line on direct US intervention is reassuring, but signals that he has given up on diplomacy are not.

Biden didn’t have to take a blowtorch to the financial system in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But he has done so.

OPINION: Former Sen. Sam Nunn coined the phrase “sleepwalking into nuclear catastrophe” long before the current crisis. Many other prominent American foreign policy experts agreed and presented ideas on how to avoid the looming disaster. The most important of them was the acceptance of the reality that the short era of unipolar world under U.S. leadership has ended and it is the time to enter into negotiations with other global powers, including Russia and China, to build the new world’s security architecture. As the first step, NATO would be required to stop its Eastern expansion, but the U.S. foreign policy establishment was not prepared to step down from its hegemonic throne.

Western politicians’ attacks on Russians play directly into Putin’s hands.

It’s rarely a good sign when Big Tech and Western leaders agree

The world community is aghast over the acute tensions between the United States and its NATO allies on one side and Russia on the other, which is poised critically on the brink of a military confrontation, the like of which the world didn’t see in the entire Cold War era.

The disconnect between the Western and Russian narratives in the current conflict could prove fatal to the world, writes Scott Ritter.