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Russia's Imperial Ambitions Are a Clear Threat to NATO

With Imperial Ambitions Russia Will Remain an ‘’Acute Threat’’ to the United States and NATO: As long as rulers in Moscow use force to pursue imperial ambition, Russia's neighbors and NATO ...
The National Interest

Russia’s Imperial Mindset Hasn’t Changed

If its imperial vision isn’t decisively defeated, any peace agreement with Russia over Ukraine is guaranteed to be merely temporary. Yet Surkov remains a figure of considerable controversy, with ...
Seattle Times

Ukraine’s Catholic bishops tell pope that his praise for Russia’s imperial past ‘pained’ Ukrainians

ROME (AP) — Ukraine’s Greek Catholic bishops told Pope Francis on Wednesday that his words praising Russia’s imperial past had pained the Ukrainian people, bringing complaints about the Vatican’s ...

The Ukraine ‘peace plan’ distracts from the real issue: why Russia’s desperate to keep fighting

Say what you will about President Trump’s methods, but his wish to end Russia’s war is genuine. The problem is Moscow doesn’t ...
The Hill

America’s neo-imperial rivals: China, Russia and Iran

Harold Macmillan, perhaps the shrewdest British prime minister in the second half of the 20th century, recognized before many of his countrymen that Britain would henceforth have a diminished role in ...
CaspianReport on MSNOpinion

Inside the question: why Russia cannot become a democracy

Russia’s struggle with democracy is deeply rooted in its geography, history, political culture, and centuries-old power ...