Reengagement with Russia is too important to wait for the Mueller probe to end. That means it’s time for Congress to take the lead.
Analysis
Glenn Greenwald: NBC Smears Tulsi Gabbard, Relies on Firm Caught Fabricating Russia Data for the Democratic Party
The whole story was a sham: the only “experts” cited by NBC in support of its key claim [that Russia supports Gabbard] was the firm, New Knowledge, that just got caught by the New York Times fabricating Russian troll accounts on behalf of the Democratic Party in the Alabama Senate race to manufacture false accusations that the Kremlin was interfering in that election.
David C. Hendrickson: Fractured: Trump’s Foreign Policy after Two Years
As a visceral dislike of all things Putin and Russian seems to be broadly shared across the U.S. political spectrum, one ventures a contrary opinion with hesitation, but I think this ubiquitous Russophobia is a sort of frenzy, with wild accusation taken routinely as fact, and which is leavened with some good old fashioned ethnic prejudice…
Graham Allison and Dimitry Simes: A Sino-Russian Entente Again Threatens America
The U.S. must revise its policy toward Moscow if it is to meet the threat from a rising China.
Nadège Rolland: A China–Russia Condominium over Eurasia
The 2014 Ukrainian crisis irrevocably pushed Moscow to shift its focus from Greater Europe to Greater Eurasia. But Russia’s turn to the East is not only the ‘inevitable result of the US and EU geopolitical game’; it is also the logical consequence of the gravity shift towards an increasingly politically and economically powerful Asia-Pacific, which provides Russia with tremendous ‘cooperation and development opportunities’.
Messenger-Inquirer: Scholar from Owensboro warns of war in his latest book
A scholar and historian who was raised in Owensboro and is now widely considered an expert on U.S.-Russian geopolitics, has published his latest book, which warns of an ongoing Cold War that is perhaps even more dangerous than the last.
Stephen F. Cohen: Trump’s Withdrawals from Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’
Manichaean Cold War myopia and ludicrous Russiagate allegations have produced one of the worst periods of American “geopolitical” thinking in recent decades.
Sina Toossi and Trita Parsi: Beware the Foreign Regime Change Charlatans
Ahmed Chalabi’s imitators are still trying to pressure America into war with Iran.
Lyle Goldstein: Peace in Afghanistan? Don’t Count On It.
A welcome and long overdue complete departure of U.S. forces will require facing up to some uncomfortable truths.
Charles CW Cooke: Bad, Press
How the media fail.
War with Russia? Stephen F. Cohen and Dan Rather in Conversation with Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the US? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West?
Gordon Hahn: The West’s Alienation of Russia: The Next Wave
The alienation of post-Cold War Russia has proceeded in waves. Each successive Western overreach for not just maintaining but expanding its global hegemony has produced a new wave of Russian alienation…
Robert Borosage: Watch How Progressives Respond When Trump Isn’t Wrong
Occasionally the president finds himself on the right side of an issue, and Democrats can’t reflexively react.
Reconsidering Russia Podcast #17: Stephen F. Cohen
Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian History at New York University and Princeton University. He is the author of numerous books on Russia and the former Soviet region, including the influential “Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution” and, most recently, “War with Russia?” on the current state of US-Russian relations.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists—Welcome to “The New Abnormal”
Citing lack of progress on nuclear risks and climate change dangers as “the new abnormal,” the Doomsday Clock remains at 2 minutes to midnight, as close to the symbolic point of annihilation that the iconic Clock has been since 1953 at the height of the Cold War.
(Video) Russian Journalist Dimitri Babich Speaks to Center for Citizen Initiatives
In the video below, Babich seemed to try to educate Americans about how it feels to be in his shoes …. in ordinary Russians shoes. – Sharon Tennison
Michael Tracey: BuzzFeed, ‘BOOM!’ and the Russiagate bombshell
Why it’s always worth waiting a full day before passing judgment…
Chuck Spinney: Eisenhower’s Nightmare: Space Wars Edition
Trump’s new missile defense plan will be a bonanza for political patronage in Washington, and a huge fail for peace.
Dmitri Trenin: Russian views of US nuclear modernization
Russian political and military leaders have always been keen observers of US nuclear policy. The current US nuclear modernization program signals to Moscow that the role of nuclear weapons in US national security strategy is on the rise.
Stephen F. Cohen: The End of Russia’s ‘Democratic Illusions’ About America
How Russiagate has impacted a vital struggle in Russia.