What makes the foolishness of US Russia policy so mind boggling is that there have been so many serious warnings. US policy took its Russophobic turn despite powerful warnings from many of our most respected experts. Said George Kennan, architect of the doctrine of containment of the Soviet Union, in a 1998 interview, "I think it is the beginning…

Bernie! This is an open letter from two accomplished authors.  JVLV applauds your honesty about your democratic socialism and your critique, similar to Trump's and Cruz's, of the Washington Cartel.  But your debate strategy was a disappointment to us.   The ISIS attack on Paris is a game-changer.  You need to take off…

While Brazil's “strategic allies” --Germany and France-- are now turning away Syrians and other refugees Brazil has already provided asylum to 2,900 people presumed to be Syrian nationals fleeing the bloody civil war.  The United States, which open sources indicate is spending billions of dollars to provide asylum to refugees from many…

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/d%C3%A9tente-plus-how-should-west-deal-russia  
 
“Leslie Gelb speaks for much of the US foreign policy establishment, writes Walter Laquer, “when he says that ... ‘It is totally unrealistic . . . to think that the West can gain desired Russian restraint and cooperation without…

On October 25th parliamentary elections were held in Poland that led to the victory of Kaczynski’s right-wing nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) over the outgoing pro-EU Civic Platform (CO), which has led the country for the last eight years. I am not going to talk about the reasons why CO is no longer convincing Polish citizens – as…

The Russian Foreign Ministry expands its digital diplomacy toolbox, the most recent example being the mass-messaging of information about the evacuation from Egypt to Russian tourists on VKontakte (or VK), Russia’s most popular social network, due to the flight suspension ordered on November 6. On Sunday, a regional Ivanovo website first reported…

Donald, you, Ben, Ted and and even Marco are rebels.  To aid your rebellion against the Washington Cartel bear in mind the words of the great philosopher, Albert Camus.  "Men's solidarity is founded upon rebellion, and in its turn, rebellion can only find its justification in solidarity."
 
Kudo to Jeb.  Although…

 
Russia has now officially entered into its first overseas war, since its former days of the Soviet Union and its foray into Afghanistan in December 1979 to February 1989.
 
Insurgent groups ("the Mujahedeen") who received aid from several Western countries and several Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and…

As combat aircraft from Russia and the United States shadow each other over Syrian airspace, director Steven Spielberg has created an Oscar-quality film about what happened when the Soviet Union shot down an American spy plane near Sverdlovsk on May 1st 1960.
 
The event was a major embarrassment to the Eisenhower administration, which got…

Comment on Brian Whitmore's RFE/RL podcast, “The Daily Vertical: Return Of The Russian World> http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-vertical-return-of-russian-world/27340254.html
 
Not much understanding of Russkiy Mir or its role in Russian foreign policy in this podcast.
 
Russkiy Mir is often represented as some new, strange…

The decision of the United States to conduct Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) around the artificial islands in the South China Sea, which China uses for justifying her sovereigny claims in this area, has somewhat increased tensions between the two countries. The newspaper Global Times known for its notorious nationalism commented on the…

Dear Amar,
 
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/...
 
Your article fleshes out several aspects of the Syria crisis of which I was not much aware. I'm tired of the simplistic one- and two-dimensional explanations that we get from our mass media. For example: The Russians don't want to lose their naval base in Tartus. They…