Inspection of the MH17 saga teaches us, in the first instance, never simply to presume that an enterprise that appears to have the status of an officially supported and endorsed international legal proceeding must on ...
On March 11, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter that his government has “approved the Strategy for Deoccupation & Reintegration of Crimea.” What he referred to is a new strategy driven by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr ...
Both pro- and anti-war voices have stated that the U.S. is on the cusp of entering a second Cold War, and a new Gallup poll suggests that the groundwork for such a conflict has already ...
Amnesty International has a long and sordid history with its prisoner of conscience designation, denying it to enemies of the US government and granting it to some less than savory characters. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
What complicates Russia’s relationship with Syria, which has sometimes been referred to as a Russian client state, is that two strong-willed, highly self-opinionated leaders are also involved here—Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Syria Bashar ...
A perfect deal is where all protagonists get something out of it. All oil-producing countries stand to gain if the oil price rebounds. In bare bones, the OPEC+ group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia ...
The US and Russia are on the verge of pulling out of a crucial treaty that ended the Cold War era arms race and kept missiles out of Europe. After a meeting in Geneva between ...
“If they are deployed in Europe, we will naturally have to respond in kind.” (Radio Free Europe) Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that, if the United States deploys intermediate-range missiles in Europe, Moscow will ...
Sanctions bill introduced in attempts to “protect U.S. democracy” from the Kremlin. U.S. lawmakers have introduced a “sanctions bill from hell” to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin along with other Russia oligarchs in their place. ...
On July 16, President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held talks in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The meeting was preceded by an indictment against 12 Russian spies for meddling in the 2016 ...
(FactCheck.org, by Lori Robertson, Eugene Kiely and Robert Farley) Russian President Vladimir Putin made several false and misleading claims during his press conference in Finland with President Donald Trump and in an interview with Fox News. Putin falsely claimed ...
(RadioFree Europe, by Mike Eckel) As U.S.-Russian summits go, the just-concluded meeting in Helsinki between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin ranked high for drama, but, analysts say, surprisingly low in terms of ...
Cynicism. It is a term which any reasonable adult has adopted to describe global conflict resolution. For most of us that have studied global politics, war, strategy, and conflict resolution, we have come to accept ...