Search: Russia,Cold War,NATO (13 materials)

 

On a New Global Order and its Nuclear Dimension

... whose leadership would be ready to commit suicide. Secondly, over the decades of its global hegemony, the United States has ceased to reckon with other major powers. For the current American politicians, if we speak metaphorically by the worlds of the Senator John McCain, Russia is “a gas station pretending to be a state”, and not “the only country capable of completely destroying the United States”, as they said during the Cold War and for some time after its end. Thus, Russia’s nuclear potential is bracketed out based on the assumption that it cannot and will not be used in modern conditions. Thirdly, the global (especially Western) agenda in the context of globalization ...

30.05.2023

Do We Have a Future?

... where our memories come into play. I remember the euphoria accompanying the fall of the Berlin Wall and the alleged end of the Cold War, which led to a unipolar world. But how many of us do properly recall the major events that have occurred in recent years?... ... for perpetual war, with the danger of the obliteration of most of humanity. Those of us who remember have only to recall how NATO, instead of disbanding, ignored Russia’s concerns and attempts at serious dialogue, expanded, and then illegally bombed Belgrade, ignoring the UN. That was ...

23.11.2022

'Red Lines' on Ukraine, Ties With China and More

... number of other geopolitical issues plaguing ties between Moscow and Washington In a comprehensive interview with Newsweek , Russian ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov laid out his country's demands to the West on the current crisis over Ukraine, discussed the importance of the ... ... Putin in September 2017 and he has served as the face of the powerful nation's diplomatic presence in the U.S. Relations between Cold War-era rivals the U.S. and Russia have long been defined by tensions and marked with significant points of cooperation. ...

20.12.2021

A ‘New Cold War’ has already started, but Russia & China are winning against a ‘weakening’ West, says former Kremlin adviser

The Soviet Union might have lost the first Cold War, but Russia is ahead in the rematch with the US and, this time, has every chance of coming out on top The Soviet Union might have ... ... side of ‘Greater Eurasia.’” “The big question is where Germany will end up,” he concluded, referring to the dominant NATO power that has embarked on the controversial Nord Stream 2 project with Russia, despite staunch objections from NATO allies ...

05.08.2021

A ‘Patriotic Heretic’ Favoring Renewal of U.S.-Russian Détente

... War.” Salon , 15 April 2015. bit.ly/2Y3ehlv . Cohen, Stephen F. “The parity principle in U.S.-Soviet relations: lanterns that illuminate missiles in the background.” The New York Times , 26 June 1981. tiny.cc/zy4ksz . Engle, Eric. “A new Cold War? Cold peace, Russia, Ukraine, and NATO ....” SSRN Electronic Journal , 2014. Friedman, Thomas L. “Foreign affairs; now a word from X.” The New York Times , 2 May 1998. nyti.ms/3qkt6Lr . House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (UK). “Libya: examination of intervention and ...

18.03.2021

Surviving in a Deregulated Strategic World

... longer America’s principal strategic rival, and are very thin with China, which is. Besides the geopolitical downgrading of Russia which is not reflected in a comparable decrease in its nuclear capabilities, and the steep economic/technological rise ... ... players. The United Kingdom and France, which developed their weapons in the 1950s and 1960s, have always been U.S. allies within NATO, and their weapons were always considered by Moscow to be part of the Western bloc’s combined nuclear arsenal. Cold War-era nuclear bipolarity that coincided with a similar ideological and geopolitical division (China remained largely introverted ...

04.02.2021

Russia’s Comeback Isn’t Stopping With Syria

... did not impress Washington, and its demands that its national security interests be respected were ignored in the process of NATO enlargement. And so from the early 2010s, the Kremlin started charting a course that was clearly at odds with its earlier policies of Western integration. With the Russian military intervention in Ukraine in 2014, the breakout from the post-Cold War, Western-dominated order was complete. The takeover of Crimea and support for separatism in Donbass did not presage a ...

19.11.2019

Mapping Global Strategic Stability in the Twenty-First Century

... several independent players in the game. The United States, though no longer as dominant as it was right after the end of the Cold War, remains the strongest power by far. It also remains the leader of NATO, to which two other nuclear powers, the United Kingdom and France, belong. America faces a comprehensive challenge from China, however, and is in a confrontation with Russia. By contrast, China and Russia, officially designated by the United States as rivals and adversaries, describe each other ...

01.11.2018

Russia's Changing Relations with the West: Prospects for a New Hybrid System

... channels of political interaction, contacts among militaries, risk mitigation measures and arms control treaties. Furthermore, the Cold War model was based on mutual respect and even a degree of mutual trust. So why not fall back on this time-tested con-frontation management practice, using such mechanisms as the NATORussia Council, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe, or new ad-hoc formats ...

19.01.2018

A Cold War: A Forecast for Tomorrow

... can be effective only if they are joined by other great powers, primarily China. If Russia does not fail, and I think it should not, it will once again be one of the three... ... powers lack such ties. The situation has degraded since the late period of the previous Cold War when we had a ramified system of consultations, communication and agreements... ... disrupting plans to involve Ukrain into Western alliances. If Ukraine had become a member of NATO, a war would have become unavoidable. People have become used to living without...

20.11.2017
 

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    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
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    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
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