US and North Korea have called the Summit a historic success, but it was also a compulsion in light of lack of alternatives
The world is talking of this Summit as a historic moment with hopes that it will bring peace to Korean Peninsula. Reading between the lines, beyond the niceties and magnificent optics displayed, some realities do emerge, which will indicate that it is beginning of a great gamble by both sides. This issue had crossed the limit of being a bilateral one and it impacts other stakeholders...
Liberals and Conservatives in America alike want to get rid of Donald Trump, but that will not solve the problem
The discussion in the United States since the election of Donald Trump has focused on how Russia interfered, colluded or meddled in the 2016 US Presidential Election. The news anchors and pundits in ...
The senior echelon of the Donald Trump administration has been falling apart at the seams for many months now. Who is replacing whom in the major U.S. political posts?
It will soon be eighteen months since Donald Trump, the most eccentric, provocative and authoritarian leader ...
... Valdai Club expert Gleb Ivashentsov, there are many obstacles for the meeting, and we have to wait for what the DPRK will say and how the US will behave before and in course of the negotiations.
The significance of reports on a possible meeting between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should not be overestimated. The US president said that the DPRK leader is ready to discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula with him. But Kim Jong-un himself did not publicly state anything on ...
Russia made at least three tactical mistakes after the new Republican administration came to power
When Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was announced in Russia’s lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, the deputies’ response was enthusiastic applause.
“I congratulate all of you on this,”
a smiling Vyacheslav ...
The USA continues to move towards the reinstatement of nuclear weapons as a fundamental element of national and international security
Experts and politicians are familiar with several variants of the 2018 NPR. The Huffington Post published a draft in mid-January. On February 2, in the run-up to the February 5 deadline to meet the central limits of the US–Russia New START treaty, the NPR was officially presented in the Pentagon by representatives of the Department of Defense, the Department of...
With all his shortcomings, it is Donald Trump that limits the Deep State’s most exotic and potentially most dangerous foreign policy oddities
The latest policy recommendations by the influential Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), one of the most ...
The former rebel and non-systemic candidate, a tireless fighter against the Washington establishment and the Deep State, in fact acknowledged his defeat. It's time to change Russia's tactics toward Washington
Donald Trump’s first State of the Union speech appears to be carefully prepared and edited many times over. Of course, numerous and corrosive critics found some negative hooks. According to them, Trump impudently attributed to himself the economic achievements ...
Bad news for Donald Trump
“Trump boasts that his impeachment will get higher TV ratings than all other impeachments,”
joked
The New Yorker’s well-known political satirist Andy Borowitz in May, 2017. After Trump’s 2017 January inauguration, the topic of ...
How to build relations with the United States? Russia is not the only country asking itself this question
Late last year, President of the United States Donald Trump presented the country’s new National Security Strategy. The unveiling was handled with the kind of pomp typical of the current U.S. head of state. Nevertheless, the first reaction to the new Strategy, both within the country and abroad,...
