Russian-American Relations Under Biden: More of the Same Except for One Thing

Russian-American Relations Under Biden: More of the Same Except for One Thing

Russian-American relations will remain just as bad under Biden as they were under Trump except for the 46th President’s desire to extend the New START for another five years as part of an implied nuclear detente with Moscow after his administration also announced that it’ll investigate the Eurasian Great Power for alleged cyberspying, interfering in…

The Top Two Dozen Highlights from Lavrov’s Review of Russia’s 2020 Foreign Policy

The Top Two Dozen Highlights from Lavrov’s Review of Russia’s 2020 Foreign Policy

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov held his annual press conference last week reviewing his country’s foreign policy over the preceding year, the top two dozen highlights of which are touched upon in this analysis for those who don’t have the time to read the full transcript from this lengthy event. Keeping with tradition, Russian Foreign Minister…

Proving Putin Prescient: “Presidents Change, Policy Doesn’t” as Navalny Protests Pale

Proving Putin Prescient: “Presidents Change, Policy Doesn’t” as Navalny Protests Pale

New U.S. President, same bad foreign policy. Joe Biden hasn’t been in office a week and we’re already watching an escalation of internal unrest in Russia. Over the weekend the western press was breathless with reports of Russia cracking down on protestors across multiple cities rising up in support of jailed ‘dissident’ Alexei Navalny. Now,…

Russia Has A Spectacular Soft Power Chance to Appeal to American Conservatives

Russia Has A Spectacular Soft Power Chance to Appeal to American Conservatives

The Russian government’s official fears that some members of the Trump-inspired “Make America Great Again” movement might become “political prisoners” in Biden’s America presents a spectacular soft power chance for the Kremlin to appeal to a broad swath of conservatives if it facilitates their future emigration to Russia and subsequently provides the necessary support to…

Why Russia & Belarus Are Not Irrational to Fear Another ‘Operation Barbarossa’

Why Russia & Belarus Are Not Irrational to Fear Another ‘Operation Barbarossa’

The U.S. government’s plan to conquer Russia is based upon a belief in, and the fundamental plan to establish, “Nuclear Primacy” against Russia — an American ability to win a nuclear war against, and so conquer, Russia, Eric Zuesse writes. Russia and Belarus fear another blitz invasion — a modernized version of Germany’s infamous Operation…

Alexei Navalny & Russia Baiting: Biden Brings Back Business as Usual

Alexei Navalny & Russia Baiting: Biden Brings Back Business as Usual

Only 48 hours in power, and already the team behind The Maidan is looking to start a colour revolution in Moscow. Joe Biden enters the White House with an entourage of faces very familiar to OffGuardian, and many of those readers who have been with us since the beginning. Glassy-eyed Jen Psaki is once again…