Relations between the U.S. and Russia appear to be almost at the point of no return
... ... impact domestic politics and popular attitudes. Accusations of interference in the electoral systems raise ... ... enlargement, Russian actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, as well as the nature of the conventional ... ... further antagonizing relations.
First, NATO-member Turkey
shot down
a Russian aircraft in November 2015 ... ... April 2017, the U.S. fired 59 cruise missiles at Syrian airbase on grounds that the Syrian military ...
The story of how Russia won the (First) Russo-American Cyberwar because ... ... diplomatic efforts to win cooperation with the Russians on Syria, as all recent diplomatic talks with them on ... ... threatening whole parts of Aleppo with mass slaughter); Ukraine also saw Russian escalation.
Kerry’s ... ... propaganda machine of hundreds of websites and many thousands of social media accounts—some unwittingly ... ... Austria. Furthermore, U.S. and NATO “ally” Turkey has taken a decidedly sharp anti-democratic ...
To understand Russia’s foreign policy today, its relations with Turkey and the West, one needs to look at the past.
Today, we have ... ... self-proclaimed Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant), the war in Syria and Iraq, the migrant crisis, slow growth. But these are ... ... In 2014, Russia embarked on a power struggle with the West over Ukraine.
This is bad news for dealing with threats such as terrorism,... ... toward Islamism. Is that the greater threat to Russia than Nato?
Accusations are routinely traded between Russia and the US about violations ...