Pressured by ever encroaching NATO expansion toward its borders and increased lethal arms sales to, and flirtations with, Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent the US a proposal on mutual security guarantees and an urgent request for immediate negotiations.

Crimea continues to be calm and any move that could result in acceptance of the peaceful status quo will be either ignored or resisted.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday sounded a positive note about the security talks he has demanded from the United States, but refused to take the threat of war against Ukraine off the table, turning his […]

Moscow has issued an ultimatum to USA/NATO. It is this: seriously negotiate on the issues laid out here and here. Some of them are non-negotiable.

Ukraine as debacle-in-waiting.

Saakashvili thought Washington had his back, but just like today, the hawks made promises that cooler heads wouldn’t back up.

Here’s a good idea: let’s not go to war against Russia. Let’s not even rattle a saber at Russia (or China, for that matter) because even wars that no one really wants can be blundered into. Many losers would be left in the aftermath, even if nuclear weapons were kept out of sight, but no one would win. So as that smart Defense Department computer says in the 1983 movie WarGames, “The only winning move is not to play.”

Just when the alliance needs to be deescalating the situation with Russia over Ukraine, he’s been throwing kerosene on the flames.

At a time when Washington wants to reduce tension with Moscow, these acts verge on the insane.

But what would all those DC national security pundits (and their journalist friends) do with their ample time if peace breaks out in Ukraine?