Posts Tagged: Trump Russia
Russia Says US Threats of Military Strikes Against Iran Are Unacceptable
Russia said on Thursday that threats of military strikes against its ally Iran were unacceptable and warned that attacking the Islamic Republic could lead to potentially catastrophic results if nuclear installations were bombed. US President Donald Trump threatened Iran on...
Russia Defends Iran’s Right to Nuclear Program Ahead of US-Israel Talks
Iran has the right to peaceful atomic energy and is acting in line with international law, the Kremlin said on Friday as the United States and Israel prepare for high-level talks on Tehran's...
Will Donald Trump Continue to Allow US Weapons to Be Used By Ukraine for Offensive Purposes?
On the night of November 19, 2024, a strike targeted the 1046th Logistics Support Center of the Russian Armed Forces near the city of Karachev...
Biden and Russia: Pressure, but Not Too Much
Moscow’s muted reaction to Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election does not augur well for bilateral ties between the two states. The Russian...
Russia and Iran’s Dangerous Energy Gambit in the Caucasus
After Armenia’s attack on Azerbaijan’s borders on July 12, a flurry of speculative articles appeared that contained obvious disinformation intended to portray what had happened...
Putin Has Outplayed Trump — and the US and Israel Have Suffered
In 2009, I wrote that Russians are the world's best chess players, and that Vladimir Putin pursues foreign policy like a chess whiz who can...
Will China and Russia Compete in the Middle East?
Russia’s relations with the West are at their lowest point in two decades. Similar patterns of warming and cooling have taken place intermittently ever since...
A US Retreat From the World Would Be a Historic Mistake
The end of the Cold War, for reasons that had to do with American exceptionalism and also with Washington’s pragmatic decision not to pursue the...
Putin Tries to Destabilize and Cripple US With Oil Prices — and the Saudis Go Along
On February 6, 2020, OPEC held a meeting in Vienna to try and reach an agreement on oil prices and production levels. The meeting ended...
Russia’s Shift From ‘Greater Europe’ to ‘Greater Asia’
When the Ukraine crisis broke out in 2014, political analysts pointed out, quite rightly, that Russia without Ukraine would become more Asian. With the country’s...
Amid Positive Outlook on Its US Position, Russia Faces Troubles at Home
In a change from recent years, internal developments in Russia are likelier to be far more significant for the country this year than geopolitical shifts...
Putin Needs Quiet to Achieve His Goals in the Middle East
JNS.org - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s surprise stopover in Syria on Tuesday -- accompanied by his minister of defense, Sergei Shoigu, and other high-level officers...
Global Protests: Russia and China Risk Ending Up on the Wrong Side of History
Russia has sought to capitalize around the world, particularly Africa, on its newfound credibility in the Middle East as it attempts to project itself as...
Putin’s Nefarious Polices Are Not New
The multipolar world, the pivot to China, the freeing of Russia from a Eurocentric foreign policy, the building of a liberal empire -- these are...
