The 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign’s bogus Steele dossier of allegations against Donald Trump deserves its infamy in the annals of political abuses. But if a Friday filing by Justice Department special counsel John Durham is accurate, the creation of yet …

In February 1990, Gorbachev received “iron-clad” verbal assurances from U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and subsequently from a small army of Western leaders that NATO would not expand “one inch” to the east if the Soviets allowed the unification …

ISTANBUL – Emmanuel Macron is no Talleyrand. Self-promoted as “Jupiterian”, he may have finally got down to earth for a proper realpolitik insight while ruminating one of the former French Minister of Foreign Affairs key bon mots: “A diplomat …

You might think that’s an overstatement. NATO is alive and well. The Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe is still functioning at a high level.

Of course, there’s the possibility of a major war breaking out between Russia …

The Biden administration has gone to unusual lengths to publicly share intelligence about Russia’s threat to Ukraine, using targeted media leaks and other methods to warn the world of everything from the specifics of Moscow’s troop build-up to an alleged …

Russia sustains one of the world’s largest nuclear arsenals and the most powerful European conventional military force. Yet as Russia amasses military forces in the vicinity of its shared border with Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has demanded long-term, legally binding …

American and NATO officials contend that Russia has no right to demand that Ukraine be excluded from membership of the military alliance. Such a demand is a non-starter, they say.

Meanwhile, Russia insists that it is an “absolute imperative” that …

SINCE THE end of World War II, U.S. officials have had an unduly expansive concept of what constitutes worthwhile strategic allies for the United States. In too many cases, the “allies” that Washington touts are small, weak, often militarily useless …

In his book, “The Back Channel,” Burns also writes that “stressing the attachment of [Former Russian President Boris] Yeltsin and the country’s political elite to Russia’s sphere of influence in the former Soviet space, I emphasized mounting Russian concern about …