The alliance should affirm it has no plan to accept Kyiv’s membership bid, in return for a drawdown of Moscow’s forces

Russian and US foreign ministries on Monday, it is helpful to read; and if that is unavailing, to ask official sources in a position to know if and when they are talkative. Actions talk louder than words, especially in war. It is intelligent to be patient and wait.

The Biden regime has blown the future

After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But the dissolution did not stop with the 14 Soviet “republics” declaring their independence of Moscow.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s snide comment about the Russian-led military intervention in Kazakhstan at the invitation of that country’s beleaguered government to help quell the mounting violence there backfired quickly. The initial White House reaction to the deployment of approximately 2,500 peacekeeping troops was relatively measured. “We are closely monitoring reports that the Collective Security Treaty Organization have (sic) dispatched its collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki stated. “We have questions about the nature of this request and whether it has – it was a legitimate invitation or not. We don’t know at this point.”

We’ll never agree with the Russian leader on principles, but we might be able to negotiate a better security structure for Europe.

Continued dialogue with Russia is the only way to prevent an invasion of Ukraine.

Like Scott Ritter I am deeply skeptical that today’s talks between the U.S. and Russia in Geneva will have any results.

Wendy Sherman thinks her aim in talks with Russian officials starting Monday is to lecture them on the cost of hubris. Instead she’s set to lead the U.S., NATO, and Europe down a path of ruin, warns Scott Ritter.

In all the hysteria over the latest strain of the Coronavirus virus, the frenzied ideological (and essentially authoritarian and anti-constitutional) activities of the House January 6 “Investigatory” Committee, and the frenetic lead up to this recent Christmas, one significant anniversary was missed, or rather ignored, by our media, including the so-called “conservative” media: the birth on December 11, 1918 of arguably the 20th century’s greatest novelist and social/cultural critic, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.