US political and media elites remained obsessed with the fictions of Russiagate—which increasingly appears to be Russiagate without Russia and instead mostly tax-fraud-gate and sex-gate…
Sharon Tennison: CCI Travelers Visit Asian/European Russia
You may be asking, “How does CCI find all of these Russian people to host Americans in cities and regions across Russia?” It’s very simple. Between 1988 and 2008, we brought more than 8,000 Russians to American cities. They came on various CCI trips: from simple citizen diplomacy to more sophisticated programs such as learning business and non-profit management.
Michael T. Klare: Alexa, Send Nukes
The US has entered an “arms-race with AI.”
Fred Weir: How one woman’s citizen diplomacy has strengthened US-Russia ties for decades
Sharon Tennison has been credited with helping to break the cold-war ice. And her mission isn’t over: She thinks the official rhetoric on both sides today is harsher than it was at the depths of the cold war.
Mark Ames: When Mother Jones Was Investigated for Spreading Kremlin Disinformation
…of all the liberal media, Mother Jones should be most ashamed for fueling the moral panic about Russian “disinformation”.
Ed Lozansky: Is this what George H.W. Bush envisioned?
As the nation laid to rest President George H.W. Bush, little attention was given to what perhaps were his most perceptive observations. One of them was made in 1989, when the USSR was being opened up by Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms and his abandonment of communist expansionist ideology. Bush noted favorably the idea of joining Moscow in a new security architecture from Vancouver to Vladivostok.
Dimitri K Simes: Dangerous Liaisons
Ignoring possible Sino-Russian cooperation against the United States, and the factors that can exacerbate it, could be very costly.
Graham Allison: China and Russia: A Strategic Alliance in the Making
Defying the long-held convictions of Western analysts, and against huge structural differences, Beijing and Moscow are drawing closer together to meet what each sees as the “American threat.”
Asia Times: How the New Silk Roads are merging into Greater Eurasia
Russia is keen to push economic integration with parts of Asia and this fits in with China’s Belt and Road Initiative
NPR: The Russia Investigations: A Case Still Unproven
There’s an important kernel of truth in that argument — not only is there no smoking gun, the Russia case appears to have been weakening, not strengthening, while America’s eyes have been on the payments.
Marlene Laruelle: Isolation and Reconquista: Russia’s Toolkit as a Constrained Great Power
U.S. domestic polarization around Russia following the 2016 presidential elections and the multiplication of hyperbolic voices denouncing the new threat from Moscow has had at least two effects other than complicating rapprochement: boosting Russia’s stature and, simultaneously, convincing the Kremlin that Russia would do better to invest in long-term strategies that would distance it from the West, and particularly the U.S.
Dawn Stover: Time to Face Up to Our Nuclear Reality
The made-for-TV movie The Day After had an enormous impact on America’s national conversation about nuclear weapons in 1983. Resuming that conversation today is essential, and the movie holds some lessons about what that would take.
Paul Robinson: Arms Race
One should always be a little cautious about accepting claims that major policy decisions are driven by secret intelligence.
Ted Galen Carpenter: Don’t Let Ukraine Drag America into War
The adage to not let a weak ally make major decisions still rings true.
Washington Times: Secretive State Dept. offensive targets propaganda, ‘deep fakes’
“When it comes to the shared recognition that Russian propaganda and disinformation are a threat, we have found great receptivity,” Mr. Kimmage said. “We received over 150 applications to the Information Access Fund almost as soon as we opened.” “It’s now funded to a tune of $10 million,” he said. “We’ve awarded a million dollars already.”
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Sanders and Warren are challenging the post-Cold War foreign policy establishment
Though neither questions directly the wrongheaded National Defense Strategy that elevates Beijing and Moscow to the status of primary threats facing the United States…
Nikolas Gvosdev: Is Russia a U.S. ‘Adversary’ or Just a ‘Competitor’?
Dealing with Russia as a serious competitor—even given its economic size and population endowment—also requires facing up to the challenge of how to compete.
RFE/RL: Putin Hails Solzhenitsyn As ‘True Patriot’ On Centenary Of His Birth
President Vladimir Putin has praised late Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as a “true and real patriot” after unveiling a statue honoring the Nobel Prize-winning author in central Moscow.
Jon Wolfsthal: It’s Not Too Late to Save the INF Treaty
No one should dismiss lightly an agreement that has helped keep the United States and its allies safe for a generation.
Daniel Larison: Save the INF Treaty
The INF Treaty is very much worth saving, and quitting it over a Russian violation is as short-sighted and self-defeating as can be.