At The American Conservative, Cato Institute senior fellow Doug Bandow explains how the crisis in Venezuela could be an opportunity for peace with Russia. Bandow explains America’s history of peace with Russia, and smartly suggests that President Trump “challenge his critics to explain what they expect to achieve from the confrontation with Moscow that they […]

  In The Federalist, Sumantra Maitra reminds conservatives and all Americans to remain focused on what really matters in the Russia investigation. He writes: Nate Silver, of all people, recently tweeted that the scale of Russian involvement in the 2016 election was quite small, and its effect was not visible. Silver is of course not a Russian […]

With November 6 coming up fast, it’s important to remember why Americans elected Donald Trump in the first place. Putting Democrats back in power would serve to reverse all the progress that has been made. I wrote this on July 17, 2018 to remind Americans what they voted for.  Daniel McCarthy explains at The Spectator […]

According to Pat Buchanan, writing at The American Conservative, America has squandered its Cold War win by failing to back off its aggressive stance towards Russia, and further by assuming the same stance towards China. The seeming goal of American foreign policy today, containing Russia and China, is unsustainable Pat says, and with deficits approaching […]

Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, warns Washington D.C.’s foreign policy establishment against the danger of stoking tensions with Moscow. He explains at The American Conservative that the policy is unwise “on strategic as well as moral grounds.” He writes (abridged): For all of the loose […]

Jeff Groom, a former Marine officer and author of American Cobra Pilot: A Marine Remembers a Dog and Pony Show, writes in The American Conservative that despite the vast differences between Russia today and the Soviet Union, the current American policy toward the Federation is a relic of the Cold War. He writes (abridged): “They […]

In the most recent issue of the technology magazine, WIRED, Andy Greenberg explains the Russian cyber-attack known as NotPetya that hammered first Ukraine, but then the whole world back in summer of 2017. This is perhaps the most exhaustive report yet on the attack that confused and crippled major companies around the world, as well […]

At The American Conservative, Professor Michael C. Desch, director of the Notre Dame International Security Center, explains that, while Russia certainly has its problems today, it is nowhere near as bad or as threatening as it was during the Soviet era. Russian violence has only come as a reaction to prodding by America on the Federation’s […]

Media alarm over a “new Cold War,” is simply hysteria. The economy of Russia is toothless. You can’t buy tanks or jets without money, and the Russians don’t have much. Another problem for the Federation is its declining population, riddled with alcoholism and a surging AIDs epidemic. You don’t build a super power with a […]

In October 2016, President Obama emphatically dismissed the notion that Russia could change the way people voted in an election: There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections, there’s no evidence that that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time. […]