Bob Dylan and the Ukraine Crisis
Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded "With God on Our Side." You probably haven’t heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most evergreen of topical songs: I've learned to hate the Russians All...
Beware the Sanctions Trap Over Russia
The Russian government’s recognition of the independence of the two separatist republics in eastern Ukraine and the decision to send its forces openly into those territories have prompted demands for the US and its allies to impose the harshest sanctions on Russia...
Washington Should Threaten War Only if it Is Willing To Go to War: And Ukraine Does Not Justify War
Even before Moscow’s recognition of the separatist Ukrainian "republics" and introduction of "peacekeeping" troops, President Joe Biden’s strongest critics were members of Washington’s omnipresent War Party. Its members were horrified when he ended...
Is DoJ’s ‘China Initiative’ Going Away? Don’t Bet on It
February 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of then-President Richard Nixon's historic trip to the People's Republic of China (PRC), the initial step on the path to the normalization of relations between the two countries after decades of animosity, and even military...
What Accounts for Putin’s Assertiveness on Ukraine?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s well choreographed decision yesterday to recognize the independence of the pro-Russian Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk points to two key realities: (1) Putin despairs of persuading U.S. allies, Germany and France, to press...
Hawks Make Little Distinction Between Russia and the Soviet Union
Foreign policy hawks in the United States habitually equate a noncommunist Russia with the totalitarian Soviet Union. An especially graphic example is a recent article in 19FortyFive by Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the neoconservative American Enterprise...
Ukraine: US ‘Diplomacy’ Is the Problem. Can It Become the Solution?
After weeks of unsuccessfully attempting to either bully Russia’s Vladimir Putin into submission or bait him into war, US president Joe Biden may finally be looking for a face-saving exit from of the Ukraine “crisis” of his own making. Reuters...
With the War Party on the Rampage, We, All of Us, Need Antiwar.Com
Jesus Christ warned his listeners that "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed" (Matthew 24:6). Some 2,000 years later we still are hearing of wars and rumors of wars. Indeed, it is hard to keep track of them these...
What Blinken Told the QUAD
On February 11, the QUAD held a foreign ministers meeting in Australia. They issued a joint statement, but it is hard to analyze what it said because it said nothing. However, in answers to reporters in press conferences held both before and after the meeting, they...
