Too Late To Triangulate: The New Shape of the World

Trust is key to a relationship. At the end of the Cold War, Russia sincerely wanted to join the West. But that relationship has broken, and Russia has moved on to a new partner. A little discussed reason for that disappointment is the complete loss of trust Russia had...

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Ukraine Pushes Back Against American Hawks

It looks like we have plunged so deeply into the theater of the absurd that we now have a case of “Albania don’t want the ball!”. Our reference, of course, is to the apocryphal football story about a coach repeatedly signaling a play from the...

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More Presidential Killings

Secretly and quietly, the Biden administration has continued to use the killing machine crafted by President George W. Bush, expanded by President Barack Obama and employed from time to time by President Donald Trump. These presidents have used drones and other...

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Will Putin Accept Half a Loaf?

The eagerly awaited "written response" from the U.S. and NATO to Russia’s security proposals is now in the hands of President Vladimir Putin. And yet there is no sign the West caved in on Moscow’s insistence that NATO rescind its 14 year-old invitation to...

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