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The Cold War Ides of March
The Cold War Ides of March US Cold Warriors escalate toward actual war with Russia. Russian Air Force Su-25 jets fly past the Russian flag on the Kremlin complex during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Friday, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo / Pavel Golovkin) Heedless of the consequences, or perhaps welcoming […]
Russia and China Are Containing the US to Reshape the World Order
Russia and China Are Containing the US to Reshape the World Order Fortunately the world today is very different from that of 2003, Washington’s decrees are less effective in determining the world order. But in spite of this new, more balanced division of power amongst several powers, Washington appears ever more aggressive towards allies and […]
American Suspension of INF Treaty is Aimed at China
American Suspension of INF Treaty is Aimed at China So it’s done. The US has suspended its participation in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and Russia soon followed suit. This almost certainly spells an end to this late Cold War relic, which banned the two superpowers from deploying ground-launched ballistic missiles and cruise missiles […]
The Self-Genocide of the West
The Self-Genocide of the West Stephen Cohen and I are branded “Russian dupes” and “Putin agents,” because we object to the highly orchestrated and false portrayal of Russia as a threat to the West, a portrayal that is leading to war. The purpose of this orchestration is to prevent President Trump or any future president […]
Woodrow Wilson Goes to Europe: One Hundred Years of Delusional American Madness
Woodrow Wilson Goes to Europe: One Hundred Years of Delusional American Madness We are now in the dubious position of “celebrating” – if that is the word – the 100th anniversary of US President Woodrow Wilson’s departure on December 4, 1918 on the liner SS George Washington for the Versailles Peace Conference where he was confident […]
If Truth Cannot Prevail Over Material Agendas We Are Doomed
If Truth Cannot Prevail Over Material Agendas We Are Doomed Throughout the long Cold War Stephen Cohen, professor of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University was a voice of reason. He refused to allow his patriotism to blind him to Washington’s contribution to the confict and to criticize only the Soviet contribution. […]
Russophobia and the Specter of War
Russophobia and the Specter of War Could global warming pose the greatest threat to the future of life on the planet? Quite possibly, if we believe the international (and scientific) consensus, despite a widening stratum of debunkers, deniers, and skeptics. What about the prospects of thermonuclear war between the United States and Russia, two countries […]
Ukraine Wants Nuclear Weapons: Will the West Bow to the Regime in Kiev?
Ukraine Wants Nuclear Weapons: Will the West Bow to the Regime in Kiev? Efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation are one of the few issues on which the great powers agree, intending to continue to limit the spread of nuclear weapons and to prevent new entrants into the exclusive nuclear club. The former Ukrainian envoy to […]
War With Russia?
War With Russia? The New Cold War is more dangerous than the one the world survived. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk. — Hegel War With Russia?, like the biography of a living person, is a book without an end. The title is a warning—akin to what the late […]
Written in History: The Death of America’s Hyper-Power Fantasy
Written in History: The Death of America’s Hyper-Power Fantasy In 1987, Paul Kennedy, a British professor of history at Yale University, unleashed a political and intellectual firestorm with the publication of his great (677-page) book, “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.” Kennedy produced a magisterial overview of the competition for global power over […]
Risky Business
RISKY BUSINESS “In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber carrying two Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs accidentally crashed in rural North Carolina. A low technology voltage switch was the only thing that prevented a 4-megaton nuclear bomb with 250 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima from detonating on […]
The New Global Tinderbox: It’s Not Your Mother’s Cold War
The New Global Tinderbox: It’s Not Your Mother’s Cold War When it comes to relations between Donald Trump’s America, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Xi Jinping’s China, observers everywhere are starting to talk about a return to an all-too-familiar past. “Now we have a new Cold War,” commented Russia expert Peter Felgenhauer in Moscow after President Trump […]
Russia Planning Series Of Missile Tests Amid NATO’s “Largest Military Exercise Since The Cold War”
Russia Planning Series Of Missile Tests Amid NATO’s “Largest Military Exercise Since The Cold War” As 50,000 NATO troops mass in Scandinavia for the military alliance’s annual “Trident Juncture” military exercises, an annual affair that has been expanded to become the largest NATO exercise since the end of the Cold War in reflection of the […]
Military Escalation in Europe Is Like Runaway Train: It’s Time to Slow It Down
Military Escalation in Europe Is Like Runaway Train: It’s Time to Slow It Down Much has been said about the Trident Juncture 2018 NATO exercise being held in the immediate vicinity of Russia’s borders. This is the largest training event since the Cold War, but it’s only part of a broader picture, in which military war preparations […]
America’s Nuclear Death Wish – Europe Must Rebel
America’s Nuclear Death Wish – Europe Must Rebel The Trump administration’s declared scrapping of a crucial arms control treaty is putting the world on notice of a nuclear war, sooner or later. Any such war is not winnable. It is mutually assured destruction. Yet the arrogant American rulers – some of them at least – […]
