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Russia accused the West on Monday of “whipping up tensions” over Ukraine and said the U.S. had brought “pure Nazis” to power in Kyiv as the U.N. Security Council held a stormy and bellicose debate on…

Moscow has come a long way since it started massing troops and military equipment at the border with Ukraine back in April 2021. At the time, President Putin chose to call it just a military exercise…

Europe remained at the negotiating table for neighboring Ukraine and perhaps this situation is correct for those who play the role of mediator. In connection with the Normandy initiative, the…

I intended this column to focus on Elizabeth Economy’s important new book, "The World According to China," which describes Xi Jinping’s vision for China’s future dominance in the world. This book…

As talks between US and Russian diplomats begin in Geneva over the fate of Ukraine, Europe stands on the brink of war. The US strategy is to negotiate with Russia while threatening “devastating”…

A military coup’d’etat in America? No sane person inside or outside America could have thought about that, but as a result of recent political events – particularly since the election of former…

Russian warplanes continued pounding northwestern Syrian Idlib province as part of the regime’s military escalation in its countryside and other villages located on its outskirts and administratively…

As 2021 came to a close, Russia presented the United States with a list of demands that it said were necessary to stave off the possibility of a large-scale military conflict in Ukraine. In a draft…

NATO has wrestled with how to defend its Baltic member states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ever since their accession to the Alliance in 2004. All three militarily weak countries sit…

For over a month now Russia has been conducting a major military buildup near its borders with Ukraine, and on the illegally annexed Crimean Peninsula. At the time of this writing there are…