Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand the war in Ukraine. Historians will tell the story, but journalists are cut short for trying to tell it now.
Year 4: The Timeline That Tells the Tale
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Year 4: Why the US Needed Russia to Invade
In a moment of candor in March 2022, Joe Biden revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion to launch its three-pronged, pre-meditated war on Russia, writes Joe Lauria.
Ignoring JFK’s Warning on Russia
A history of U.S. bullying — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — shows that U.S. leaders since the Cold War’s end have ignored J.F.K.’s dire warning not to humiliate a nuclear power.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Russophobes
The extent to which Trump’s démarche toward Moscow succeeds will be the extent to which the U.S. can transcend a long, regrettable history and finally embrace the 21st century.
Interview: Richard Sakwa on Russia Since Perestroika
Natalyie Baldwin asks the British author about the Soviet collapse, the 1990s, Vladimir Putin’s governance, the rise of a new cold war and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
NATO: The Most Dangerous Organization
By the time of its out-of-theater intervention in Afghanistan, it became clear that NATO now had the ability and permission to operate as the policeman of the U.S.-led order.
Vijay Prashad: NATO Is the United States
As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to “shift to a wartime mindset,” now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale.
JFK AU at 62: ‘Don’t Humiliate a Nuclear Power’
Sixty-two years ago this week, John F. Kennedy broke with the Cold War in his American University speech and warned against humiliating a nuclear weapons power, words that resonate more than ever, writes Joe Lauria.
WATCH: Joe Lauria — Trump Defies Rational Analysis
Donald Trump is somebody very hard to define and to describe because we’ve never seen anything like him, the editor of Consortium News told Turkish journalist Tunç Akkoç’.
Blair & Major Reassured Russia About NATO
Two British prime ministers recognised Moscow’s fears over NATO expanding in eastern Europe — a major cause of the Ukraine war — files show, Mark Curtis reports.