Putin draws lines over NATO, Ukraine: Let the negotiations begin
As the crisis intensifies, Moscow’s ambitious security proposal may provide an opening to resolve the stand-off.
As the crisis intensifies, Moscow’s ambitious security proposal may provide an opening to resolve the stand-off.
The accursed word has now entered the debate on Ukraine, threatening to push the US onto the conveyor belt of a conflict we won’t win.
Saakashvili thought Washington had his back, but just like today, the hawks made promises that cooler heads wouldn’t back up.
This could be the most important conversation the men will have — and a chance to tamp down increasing tensions over Ukraine.
Since its assurances not to move “one inch” outside Germany, the alliance as moved 600 miles closer to Russia.
Just when the alliance needs to be deescalating the situation with Russia over Ukraine, he’s been throwing kerosene on the flames.
In recent statements, Moscow seems much more realistic about the consequences of actual conflict with Kiev and Western powers.
As tensions rise in Ukraine, hawks in the West are promoting a more confrontational stance toward Moscow.
The further the Biden administration kicks the Ukraine issue down the road, the greater the chance for something to set it off.
The latest tit-for-tat comes amid signs of warming relations.
Along with the bad, there seems to be a number of goodwill gestures on both sides in hopes of building trust.
It may just be grandstanding for domestic purposes, but the effort poses grave implications for American and international security
Details are still unclear but the episode highlights the danger in using warships to make diplomatic or legalistic points.
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.
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.
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.
Aggressive American exceptionalism brings adversaries together in mutual hostility against us. Is this what Biden wants?