Biden heads home with a mixed bag from Geneva
The summit with Russian President Putin elicited some modest progress, but on the big security questions, a missed opportunity.
The summit with Russian President Putin elicited some modest progress, but on the big security questions, a missed opportunity.
The American and Russian presidents can use this week’s summit to start a new era of strategic dialogue.
As their summit approaches, some serious thoughts on how Biden and Putin can pursue a negotiated peace in a fractured land.
Both sides have an interest in demilitarizing the region and enhancing cooperation.
As the G7 approaches, Biden and company should take note that European partners aren’t exactly marching lockstep behind them.
And it’s a head-scratcher, since his campaign once called Trump’s withdrawal of the Cold War agreement ‘short-sighted.’
Bombastic phrases for military ops like the anti-Russia one today strikes this author as masking an underlying lack of confidence.
Aside from the contradictions and hypocrisies, it’s not worth alienating Russia and China, with whom the US must cooperate.
The two men represent two countries with a lot of tensions right now — but also areas of real potential cooperation.
America’s most urgent infrastructure vulnerability is largely invisible and unlikely to be fixed by Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan.
The late historian Paul Schroeder offered insights into how to bring Russia into a collective security arrangement.
The groupthink is leading to the marginalization of ideas and people who call for a new approach to Moscow. And it’s getting ugly.
The anti-Russian Blob has taken its first scalp in the Biden Administration, torpedoing an esteemed expert’s appointment to the NSC.
A day after ending a war in Afghanistan, Biden seems to be going down the road of a new one with Moscow.
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.
Moscow’s ability to build relationships with US regional allies is raising flags with the Biden administration.
Militarization of the Arctic won’t do either side any good.
The Biden team is proving no better than Trump, bullying and treating allies as incapable of making their own decisions.
Other than making China happy, nothing good can come out of escalating tensions with Moscow over its former Soviet territories.
Doesn’t Biden’s team understand that if foreign governments are attacked in this way, they are bound to retaliate?