…a country which appears to be unable to govern itself is hardly the exemplar and all-powerful state suitable to govern the rest of the world.
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Gilbert Doctorow: A Deaf Ear to Dire Russian Warnings
Official Washington is so obsessed with the hyped Russia-gate allegations that it isn’t picking up on dire warnings from Russia that continued U.S. military interference in Syria won’t be tolerated, as Gilbert Doctorow notes.
The NYT’s Grim Depiction of Russian Life (Gilbert Doctorow)
As a top propaganda outlet pushing the New Cold War, The New York Times paints life in Russia in the darkest hues, but this one-sided depiction misses the reality of the increasingly vibrant country that Gilbert Doctorow sees.
Putin – Trump meeting in Hamburg: what paradigm for development of US-Russian relations should we look for? (Gilbert Doctorow)
We do not have today an ideological divide driving the competition of these two powers, but we do have heightened and currently malicious or malignant competitiveness that can run amok. The objective is to agree on national interests of the sides, a polite way of saying the unspeakable in American politics, “spheres of influence.”
US Risks Wider War by Downing Syrian Plane (Gilbert Doctorow)
Another U.S. military strike inside Syria — this time, shooting down a Syrian bomber — has escalated tensions with Russia, even opening the possibility that Russian anti-aircraft missiles will target U.S. warplanes, reports Gilbert Doctorow.
Russia’s Pride in WWII Victims and Heroes (Gilbert Doctorow)
As Americans are told to be very scared of a new (and old) enemy – Russia – a more complex reality exists on the ground there, a proud and determined people, as Gilbert Doctorow witnessed at an Immortal Regiment march.
Trump’s frontal assault on America’s new McCarthyism (Gilbert Doctorow)
“Frozen conflicts” in our intellectual life are finally undergoing a welcome and necessary thaw if they are to find resolution.
Toward a new take on Russia (Edward Lozansky and Gilbert Doctorow)
From all indications, Moscow viewed last Saturday’s phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump as a successful first step that might well lead to a lessening of tensions between the two countries.
Leery of Trump No Longer: Official Russia on the Trump-Putin Telephone Call of January 28th (Gilbert Doctorow)
In his 45-minute telephone call with President Putin on Saturday, January 28, Donald Trump appears to have kindled a very respectful and enthusiastic response from Official Russia. By that term, I mean the Kremlin elites in parliament, in the universities and think tanks, in the media upon whom Vladimir Putin depends for nationwide support of…
Letter from Moscow: how the Trump inauguration is being viewed in Russia (Gilbert Doctorow)
The Kremlin is withholding its seal of approval on the incoming Trump administration and is managing the Russian mass media accordingly, writes Gilbert Doctorow from Moscow.
Trump turns U.S. foreign policy thinking inside out: interview with The Times of London and Bild (Gilbert Doctorow)
In the interview, Donald Trump changed entirely the metrics by which sanctions on Russia would be lifted.
Is there any escape from geopolitics? A letter from India (Gilbert Doctorow)
Is there any escape from geopolitics? The answer is resoundingly ‘no’ as I discovered yesterday when I picked up the local newspaper, The Times of India, Kochi (Kerala State)
Nicolai N. Petro
Nicolai N. Petro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island, where he previously held the Silvia-Chandley Professorship of Peace Studies and Nonviolence. [Read more…] about Nicolai N. Petro