Two steps forward, one step back on negotiations, while Biden plows more weapons into Ukraine

Nixon’s secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Reagan’s ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock debated the future of NATO and Russia during the Budapest Summit on Dec. 5, 1994. Robert MacNeil moderated the discussion.

Less Reliance on America Would Yield a Stronger Alliance and a Safer Europe

To preserve or reassert its standing as a great power and guarantee its security, post-conflict Russia will almost certainly seek to push the military threat it sees emanating from Europe as far away from its border as possible. Is coexistence possible after the Ukraine war?

Deputy editor of the Washington Post Bob Woodward has written and published a new book to serve Democrat Party-State interests. It is aptly titled War and has been released in October 2024 in order to discredit Republican Party candidate and former US President Donald J. Trump, to influence the outcome oft he US presidential campaign and to rally flagging support in the US for the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War. Several publications leaked excerpts form portions of the book in order to ensure that it shapes the Ameerican public opinion.

NATO showed no sign on Wednesday of inviting Ukraine to join the alliance soon, as members sought more details from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about his “victory plan” to end the war with Russia.

Another park, another Sunday;

Why is it life turns out that way?

Just when you think you got a good thing

It seems to slip away…
Another park, another Sunday; It’s dark and empty thanks to you, I got to get myself together, But it’s hard to do…” – The Doobie Brothers, from “Another Park, Another Sunday”. “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – Plato

Defense ministers will discuss how to map out a new NATO strategy toward Moscow, to reflect the frosty relationship.

During his swearing-in ceremony as the new Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte declared his top priorities were strengthening the alliance and bringing Ukraine closer to the bloc.

In its Friday editorial, Global Times took the opportunity to examine NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s farewell speech of the day before, “What has NATO’s ‘expansion’ vaunted by secretary general brought?” One million Ukrainian deaths, many more millions displaced, and the nation ruined on behalf of NATO policy weren’t any of the facts Stoltenberg mentioned.