Instead of working toward detente with Russia, the United States appears to be moving full speed ahead toward nuclear winter.
The Democratic National Committee would rather blame Russia and Julian Assange for the 2016 election disaster than challenge elite corporate interests.
Russia will ask the Security Council to send peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine, a development greeted by Germany as a new opportunity for detente.
Democratic leaders have positioned themselves to portray just about any concession from the U.S president in bilateral talks with the Russian president as a corrupt payoff.
At a time of increasing tensions, what’s at stake in the dynamics between the nuclear superpowers' presidents is no less than the fate of the planet.
Saber-rattling in response to alleged Russian expansionism is the latest in a series of dramatic breaks from the post-Cold War detente between Russia and the U.S.-led West.
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