It will all end in flames
For decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin railed against the world that the United States built after the Cold War. In his account, an international order run by a single power would hinder Russia and produce needless conflict, especially when that power was as self-serving and duplicitous as America. Now Donald Trump is dismantling the order that Putin had so long abhorred, and a new...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comTo the shock, horror, and dismay of onlookers around the world, the New START treaty expired on Thursday. U.N. secretary-general António Guterres called it "a grave moment for international peace and security" and lamented that, "for the first time in more than half a century, we face a world without any binding limits on the [American and Russian] strategic nuclear arsenals." Nuclear...
Continue Reading on http://freebeacon.com/Exactly one year ago today I came home, to Russia. I didn’t manage to take a single step on the soil of my country as a free man: I was arrested even before border control. The hero of one of my favorite books, “Resurrection,” by Leo Tolstoy, says, “Yes, the only suitable place for an honest man in Russia at the present time is prison.” It sounds fine, but it was wrong then, and it’s even...
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