This Week’s Highlights
A very useful step for Moscow and Washington
would be to revive the practice of convening bi-annual U.S.-Russian meetings at the assistant/under-secretary or deputy foreign minister level, suggest Prof. William C. Potter, founding director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and Anton Khlopkov,
founding director of the Center for Energy and Security Studies in Moscow. They also note that it would be worthwhile to resurrect a number of the arms control, nuclear energy and nuclear security working groups that were originally established under the bilateral U.S.-Russian Presidential Commission.
Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Joe Biden have said that, in principle, they want to invoke a provision of the New START treaty, write Anton Troianovski and David E. Sanger of the New York Times. One complicating factor, however, is that critical members of Biden s cabinet may not yet be confirmed by the Senate in
The American Far-Right Is Dangerous but Disorganized Foreign Policy
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The most common ad hoc weapon used in the French Revolution was the pike, not the pitchfork.
Funny how we’ve come full circle, with the flagpole filling in for the pike on January 6th.
The Rev Kev
The thing to watch for is when protestors start to have the same gear that police do and use them. During the Capital riots, a cop sprayed them with some white chemical spray – tear gas I assume. And immediately a rioter sprayed a brown spray right back at them. But lessons should be taken from the Romans. See the first minute of this clip to see how they dealt with the fact that being on the front line was physically exhausting-
will be forced to stand up to it in the future and when it comes to standing up to it we know that both the united states the french have come forward to back britain and its accusation accusations toward moscow how much is britain the overlying on its allies at this precarious time as we know for example in the united states when it comes to u.s. foreign policy that has often been shall we say in flux recently. the united kingdom has always relied on her allies we have been a very strong international player and that s exactly what the kremlin is trying to undermine what they re trying to do is to destroy the multilateral system that has kept us safe for seventy years that has kept us working together so we are working with our allies we re working with countries like a stone year in germany and france and sweden we re working with the united states with the five eyes community of canada and australia are we working with nato and we are absolutely stunning together on this because we