So the US wants help from Russia in Central Asia now?
Despite years of policy and rhetoric designed to reproach Moscow, Washington now needs help containing the Taliban.
Despite years of policy and rhetoric designed to reproach Moscow, Washington now needs help containing the Taliban.
Its new national security strategy may be calculated to appeal to voters, but the West has clearly helped to push Putin’s buttons, too.
Critics of a reduced US role in NATO can’t explain why it needs to maintain a substantial military posture across the Atlantic.
In his new book, the long time US foreign policy critic says some radical approaches are in order, ‘After the Apocalypse.’
As their summit approaches, some serious thoughts on how Biden and Putin can pursue a negotiated peace in a fractured land.
Bombastic phrases for military ops like the anti-Russia one today strikes this author as masking an underlying lack of confidence.
It’s been 25 years and the U.S. and European stamp on the region’s current configuration has hardly worked out for the better.
The Atlantic security alliance acts as a fine security blanket, but once it starts growing and meddling, things go bad quickly.
It won’t happen because that would mean the Atlantic alliance would have to mobilize for war.
Airwars releases massive report today charting nine months of bombing by Gaddafi forces, the US-led coalition and rebels
Biden says the “transatlantic alliance is back’ but NATO may never be the same, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Blowing off the May 1 deadline for withdrawal would be a mistake, but that seems to be where the winds are blowing.
During Trump’s tenure, the French president said NATO was in a ‘brain death’ spiral and was talking up a European army.
The Blob is swooning over the prospect of ‘reaffirming’ foreign security pacts, with no thought over whether they are still useful.
An enclave that already harbored substantial weaponry before 2017 is now a major center of Moscow’s military power.
The short answer is, no, it is not. Yet it may be understandable why the US might well believe it so.
Tangling with the Russian bear above, and especially under, the seas does not comport with U.S. national security interests.
The Hobbesian vision of the future international order can contribute to dismantling the multilateral liberal system, but it does not have an alternative vision to replace it beyond the classic ‘might makes right.’
Whether defined as a partnership or an alliance, U.S.-NATO-Turkish relations will continue to face the test of confronting common challenges.
In Moscow and Ankara, two strongly nationalistic leaders, both endowed with a wily realpolitik-style realism as well as a strong dose of paranoia, perform an intriguing and complex diplomatic dance around each other.
President Trump and his “bull in a China shop” approach took center stage at a NATO leaders’ conference last week, […]