The new cold war
If the United States ever ends up stumbling into a major conventional or nuclear war with Russia, the culprit will likely be two military boondoggles that refused to die when…
New cold wars
The essential key to addressing real threats to international security and peace, as well as to resolving smaller wars and regional conflicts, is to reverse the present trend toward cold…
China vs America: the new cold war
According to the renowned structural realist, John J Mearsheimer, the Chinese economic and military rise in the 21st century would not be peaceful; the US would employ all means, fair…
Reasons to avoid the cold war
The Pentagon budget the Obama administration unveiled this week calls for quadrupling spending on efforts to counter Russia. The money would move more troops, tanks, and artillery into position near…
Cold war is on
A COLD war is on between the West and Russia in right earnest. Its immediate cause is, of course, the Ukraine. But Prof John J. Mearsheimer of the University of…
Back to Cold War as Russia probes Nato defences
Nuclear-capable Russian bombers in European airspace, Nato intercepts, a foreign submarine in Swedish waters - the fall-out from the Ukraine crisis feels like a return to Cold War days. Nato…
Back to the cold war?
The US and the European Union have come out with fresh economic curbs on Russia in a bid to bring it to heel over the Ukrainian crisis. Does the Washington-Moscow…
War crimes
Threshold question: should we hold trials or join Joe Stalin like he proposed after WWII for Hitler and his Hit Men, and just lynch those responsible, their crimes being so…
A bitter cold European winter without Russian energy supplies
As the winter is approaching in Europe, pressure is mounting on the governments by their citizens and industrialists and as a result, European leaders are scrambling to find LNG at…
A way forward for Moscow
It is true that the West did not keep its promises, reneging on its assurances that were held out to the Soviet Union just prior to the end of the…
