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Putin’s move on Donestk, Lugansk is illegal but falls short of new ‘invasion’

By Anatol Lieven on Feb 21, 2022 07:06 pm

The next steps are critical: we must hold threat of full scale sanctions and a Ukrainian military response, unless Russia extends farther.
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What the US should offer Russia to stave off war in Ukraine

By Anatol Lieven on Feb 21, 2022 07:39 am

In talks with Sergei Lavrov this week, Secretary Blinken certainly has diplomatic options. The question is, will he pursue the right ones?
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In many cases, our attempts to help US track civilian deaths went nowhere

By Sanjana Varghese on Feb 21, 2022 03:06 am

Airwars says it worked with the military to identify incidents, but newly classified docs show that in many cases, they were ignored.
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Could today’s media hysteria lead us into a war?

By Daniel Larison on Feb 18, 2022 03:33 am

Overwrought coverage stoked by alarmist officials and pundits can both shape and ratify bad policy decisions. We've seen it before.
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Massive folly: Biden’s 2023 defense budget could top $800 billion

By William Hartung on Feb 18, 2022 03:00 am

The reported request is grotesque, particularly when considering today's unconstrained Pentagon waste.
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House GOP opens a new shameful chapter in diplomatic sabotage

By Ryan Costello on Feb 18, 2022 03:00 am

A letter signed by more than 160 Republicans promising to kill the Iran nuclear deal could have been drawn up by hardliners in Tehran.
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Chas Freeman on Nixon, China, and ‘the week that changed the world’

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Feb 17, 2022 03:46 am

Video: The young foreign service officer was the interpreter for the president on that trip 50 years ago, and had a front row seat to history.
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How the best hope for avoiding a Russia crisis vanished without a trace

By Elisabeth Brocking on Feb 16, 2022 03:17 am

The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces between NATO and former Warsaw Pact countries was destroyed at our peril.
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