... topic is in limbo. As regards the latter, if the U.S. announcement to pull out of Syria is not a trick but the implementation of Donald Trump’s long cherished plans, then one more area of interaction—measures to avoid dangerous incidents—will be gone ... ... suddenly everything began to crumble. Russia is affected, too. Its policy throughout the post-Soviet period, despite Western accusations of revisionism, was motivated by the desire to preserve or recreate the status quo that existed before the dramatic breakup ...
Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev tells Christiane Amanpour why he thinks the Mueller investigation was biased and "not a fair approach."
Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev tells Christiane Amanpour why he thinks the Mueller investigation was biased and "not a fair approach
Source:
CNN
... again started discussing the possibility of a nuclear war when Pyongyang violated the resolutions of the UN Security Council by holding another, sixth nuclear test and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2017, and when U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking at the UN General Assembly, responded by talking about the complete destruction of North Korea.
Inter-Korean normalization could give a powerful impetus to resolving the nuclear problem since North Korea’s nuclear missile program ...
...
Andrey Kortunov:
The World After the INF Treaty: How to Get Out of the Dead Zone
In your opinion, what is the likelihood of Donald Trump being impeached?
I don’t think it is very likely that he will be impeached. Within current composition of the ... ... Trump will leave of his own volition after having grown tired of constantly being forced to push back against all kinds of accusations and because of the disloyalty of many in his own administration. I don’t think Trump is the kind of person who would ...
... structure of human interaction has changed, and so too has interaction within the framework of international communication. Taking Donald Trump as an example once again: the president announced the sanctions against Iran by using a meme from the popular TV ... ... such an important event as the imposition of sanctions on a country, an event that could affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Memes are not the exclusive domain of the President of the United States. Embassies and other world leaders ...
Why Is Peace Bad?
The decision announced by President Donald Trump on December 19 to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria provoked an outpouring of denunciations and vitriol against ... ... allies "confused" and "bewildered." This was echoed in an op ed in the New York Times on December 23, by Susan Rice, National Security Advisor to Obama, titled "The Threat in the White House." Rice laments that, "We are ...
... establishment in the United States still sets the tone in shaping these perceptions in the West, although the uniformity of the Euro-Atlantic region is withering away. An obvious example is the G7 summit in Quebec in June, which ended in fiasco with Donald Trump withdrawing his signature from the final communiqué. The refusal was accompanied by harsh criticism of Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, whom Trump accused of lying and undermining the agreements1 reached in La Malbaie.
Deconstruction of the West
The liberal part of the European political establishment ...
... isn’t reflected in the behavior of Western powers. Even though there is a very tense relationship with, say, the United States, Germany, France or even Britain, their policies don’t reflect the view that Russia is a significant threat.
Look at Donald Trump, for example, and his behavior vis-a-vis Russia. No one would treat a superpower the way he does, canceling meetings last-minute by tweet, despite the fact that the previous tweet two hours ago said exactly the opposite. This is not the way ...
... and mechanisms for reducing cyberthreats. Unfortunately, all agreements were frozen following the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis. And they cannot be considered tenable under current conditions, as all attempts to bring them back to life have failed.
Donald Trump: America First
Pavel Sharikov:
Information as a Factor of U.S. Smart Strategy
The new Strategy is a logical continuation of the policy of recent years and is now enshrined at the doctrinal level. As we have already
mentioned
, it resembles ...
... Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF. It’s in line with the U.S. president’s general approach to foreign policy: he renounces agreements that he believes to be unfavorable to the United States. In this light, it’s unlikely that this recent decision by Donald Trump was conceived as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Moscow.
From the political standpoint, Trump’s coup de theatre on the eve of U.S. congressional elections deals a blow to his critics, who constantly rebuke the president for appeasing ...
