Russia’s Leader Is Neither A Realist Nor A Nationalist
To understand Vladimir Putin’s wars, the key is to understand the final two decades of the Soviet Union, not the first two decades of the new Russia. by Tom Nichols…
Russian Strategic Bombers Conduct More Than 16 Incursions of U.S. Air Defense Zones
‘Spike’ in Bear H flights over past week seen as test of U.S. air defenses by Bill Gertz • Washington Free Beacon Russian strategic nuclear bombers…
Putin’s Dream Clouds the Approach of a Nightmare
by Larry Franklin Vladimir Putin has succeeded in portraying himself as a leader of a resurgent Russia. The three-term President of the Russian Federation has proven to be a skilled manipulator…
Russia Violated a Nuclear Treaty. What the U.S. Must Do.
by Michaela Dodge • Daily Signal Russian violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty come as a surprise to only those who have not been paying…
US: Russia Violated 1987 Nuclear Missile Treaty
by Jim Kuhnhenn • Associated Press In an escalation of tensions, the Obama administration accused Russia on Monday of conducting tests in violation of a 1987…
Russia’s Moral Nihilism
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi In the book entitled “The Documentary History of the Roots of the German Hanseatic Cities” it is stated that already in the 14th century…
Soviet Union Redux
All the currently known evidence points to the culprits being the very forces that Russian President Putin has armed, trained, and encouraged. by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Malaysian Airlines flight…
NATO After Ukraine: Military Modernization in Europe
by Peter Huessy NATO faces a challenge to modernize and sustain its nuclear posture and missile defense deployments in Europe at a time of declining defense budgets on the one…
Russia Test Fires Six New Air-Launched Cruise Missiles
Putin orders military exercises amid new Ukraine tensions by Bill Gertz Russian strategic air forces fired six new, precision-strike cruise missiles in test launches Friday amid new tensions between Moscow…
Russia Cuts Natural Gas Supply to Ukraine
by Oren Dorell Russia’s cutoff of natural gas supplies to Ukraine on Monday is a reminder that Ukraine is still highly dependent on its powerful neighbor. “They’re going to need the…
The Flickering Shadows of Russia and Ukraine
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi In his Allegory of the Cave Plato asserts that the universe revealed by our senses is not the actual world but the shadow of reality.…
Foreign Policy of Denial
by Charles Krauthammer Barack Obama’s 949-word response Monday to a question about foreign policy weakness showed the president at his worst: defensive, irritable, contradictory and at times detached from reality.…
Foreign Policy Failures Prove Critics Right
The President once promised to tackle “cynicism” about what could be achieved through diplomacy. But he’s nowhere near close to doing that. by Michael Crowley In a rough month of…
Vlad the Prevaricator
Talks in Geneva on the unrest in eastern Ukraine have concluded with an agreement by the foreign ministers of the European Union, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. for all sides…