Section: US & Canada
Trump’s Republican Problem on Russia Sanctions
Dimitri Alexander Simes National Security, United States of America Democrats have undoubtedly spearheaded the push to prevent Trump from pursuing his own “reset” with Russia. Republicans have also played a substantial role. On the question of removing sanctions against Russia, President Donald Trump faces just as much resistance from...
Losing Our Grip, From Paris to Podgorica to London
Most of the world does not feel sorry for America, and is not used to the wounded self-regard with which our President so frequently expresses himself. President Trump’s assertion that the Paris climate accord put America at “permanent disadvantage to the other countries of the world” has elicited no sympathy abroad. And the sight of our...
1 dead, 7 injured in fighting in eastern Ukraine
The Ukrainian government says at least one soldier was killed and seven others were injured in an apparent uptick in fighting in the country’s east. …read more Source: FOX...
Why Venezuela Proves That Russia Is Still a World Power
Nikolas K. Gvosdev Politics, Americas Russia has acquired in Venezuela, as it has in Syria, a need to preserve the current regime in order to safeguard its investments. One of the problems with continuing to box Russia into the European policy box is that Moscow, while not wielding all the resources of the former Soviet Union, can still wield...
Nuclear Defense Experts Urge Revitalization of U.S. Ballistic Missile Programs
Nuclear defense experts called for a bipartisan effort to revitalize the U.S. ballistic missile programs at this year’s nuclear posture review in a report discussed at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Tuesday. The report, “A New Nuclear Review for a New Age,” reassessed the United States’s relation...
1 dead, 7 injured in fighting in eastern Ukraine
The Ukrainian government says at least one soldier was killed and seven others were injured in an apparent uptick in fighting in the country’s east. Fighting between government forces and … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
1 dead, 7 injured in fighting in eastern Ukraine
The Ukrainian government says at least one soldier was killed and seven more injured in an apparent uptick in fighting in the country’s east …read more Source: ABC...
Robert Reich: The art of the Trump-Putin deal
(Credit: AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Pool) This post originally appeared on Robert Reich’s blog. Say you’re Vladimir Putin, and you did a deal with Trump last year. I’m not suggesting there was any such deal, mind you. But if you are Putin and you did do a deal, what did Trump agree to do? 1. Repudiate NATO. NATO is the biggest...
Russia Set To Try Crimean Tatar Leader On Separatism Charge
A Crimean Tatar leader who has criticized Russia’s seizure of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine is set to go on trial on June 7. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Winning hearts and minds, international edition
Daily Beast: In one email exchange, a State Department official feels the need to explain that lowering punitive sanctions on the Russian oil industry would be rewarding Moscow—without getting anything from the Kremlin in return. “Russia continues to occupy Ukraine including Crimea—conditions that led to the sanctions have not changed,” the...
