The baton of “global leadership,” which Joe Biden mentions every chance he gets, is passing to non-Western leaders.

laims made by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the United States is intentionally prolonging the Russia-Ukraine conflict may not be as implausible as described, says one U.S. military veteran and journalist.

No sooner than Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned to Moscow after the SCO ministerial in Tashkent, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s pending request for a conversation was scheduled late Friday evening. This has been their first conversation since the war began in Ukraine in February.

Some of the most sensible commentary about the Ukraine war is being made by people in their nineties, born before the Second World War and with vivid recollections of the Cold War.

Toward a war of attrition? Or major power war?

Recent reporting suggests that my sense that Russian President Vladimir Putin had not planned to invade and was instead engaged in coercive diplomacy in massing troops around Ukraine is supported, though not necessarily confirmed by US intelligence, according to a recent report on US per-war intelligence.

Several weeks into the war in Ukraine, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked President Joe Biden if he agreed with those who call Russian President Vladimir Putin “a killer.”

Being lectured to by the West on the evils of staging military interventions is like being told to sit up straight by the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

We’ll skip peace talks, and go straight for Russian regime change?

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