Acting tough, striking out at Russia and its allies, is not the way to form a coalition to pass a tax reform act. It is a formula for suicide.
Category: International
Thinking Russia Reacts to St Petersburg Terror Attacks
From a nation of romantic philosophers, Russia is today a bastion of rationalism and pragmatism.
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Bringing the best of Russian political discourse to global audiences
Arguing the case for posting on youtube English subtitled or dubbed editions of Russia’s best talk shows
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Incredible India: Tourism and Politics
Our experience necessarily raised the question of whether India’s form of governance is not delaying by generations what it could achieve for its people if there were more discipline and common purpose at the top.
Push-back to the Washington Post feature articles on Russian talk shows by David Filipov
Filipov has gone out of his way to explain what he was doing on Russian television, lest he himself be called out as a tool of the Kremlin, and he has covered himself as well by restricting himself to discussion of the best possible show to make his point about Russian propaganda.
What do the Russians want? And how does this affect what Trump can achieve in foreign relations?
Trump is hamstrung. The Russians have noted the new situation in Washington and we hear from Russian elites more and more every day just how they plan to proceed on the international stage in the new circumstances.
Clearing space for a new foreign policy: the Establishment begins to stir
In this essay we consider why Foreign Affairs has just published an article on U.S. policy towards Russia that trashes the positions of all their featured contributors these past several years
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Have the Russians given up on Trump? Clear signals from Russia’s most authoritative media: Rossiya 1
The general mood of the talk show panelists was very confident. Not because their man is in the White House, as American media would have us believe. But as a result of what they construe as Russia’s winning hand in the Middle East
The Trump Presidency: Time to act on the threat to our national security from within
By weeding saboteurs out of the intelligence agencies, State and the Pentagon, Trump will merely be undoing the enormous damage done to our national security by a purge of the same bodies undertaken under the guidance of Vice President Dick Cheney following 9/11.
Donald Trump’s State of the Presidency Address, 28 February 2017
If the recalcitrant Cold Warriors in America’s “power ministries” remain untouched, they will be in a position to create provocations at any time of their choosing to override Trump’s planned détente policies.
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