Tag: NATO
Trump’s bid to transform international relations may succeed
Eliminating bureaucracy and abandoning the world order that the U.S. helped build may allow Trump to recalibrate foreign policy, at the cost of global stability.
Putin warns of NATO involvement as US weighs letting Ukraine use...
Putin’s warning came as reports surfaced suggesting that U.S. President Joe Biden is considering allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian targets, marking a dangerous new phase in the two-and-a-half-year war.
Similar to Biden, NATO is aged and unfit for leadership
NATO’s 75th anniversary is an opportune time to take stock of NATO’s outdated world view and violations of international law.
Confronting NATO’s war summit in Washington
Can NATO ever be the force for peace that it claims and conclude that its refusal to learn from the deadly results of its own actions only makes it increasingly dangerous?
The enemy is us
Looking back, the desire to make war and obliterate our “enemies” is a deeply ingrained and repetitive pattern in our history.
Is CIA director Bill Burns a Biden yes-man, a Putin apologist...
The insight on Russia that he provided to his government during many years as a diplomat and then ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow will answer some critical questions regarding his current role in the Biden administration.
US-backed roll of the dice leaves Ukraine in worse crisis
The U.S. decision to reject peace negotiations and prolong the war have led to a brutal war of attrition that is gradually destroying Ukraine.
Finland’s NATO move leaves others to carry on the ‘Helsinki spirit’
What are the consequences for Finland and the world, including Finland's historic role as a peacemaker.
Can NATO and the Pentagon find a diplomatic off-ramp from the...
The precarious fine line the United States and NATO are walking in Ukraine, caught between their commitment to an open-ended, ever-escalating war and the existential danger of nuclear war that it may lead to.
NATO and a war foretold
While the world determines how to hold Russia accountable for the horrors it is committing in Ukraine, the members of NATO should do some honest self-reflection.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.