Russia in Global Affairs

Something that started so well has now gone off the rails, and Russia is exclusively blamed. One can dismiss this as a symptom of neurosis. But history shows that neurosis in Europe, and especially in Germany, spawns disaster far beyond its borders. History is heading for another sharp turn.

The ‘Peace through Strength’ approach, accepted by Harry Truman in 1948, has now fully overshadowed its reversed twin ‘Strength through Peace’ urged by Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, paving the way for a new round of confrontation among great powers.

What Trump is doing to the American empire and its power (regardless of his motives and awareness) can be compared with “muscle drying” practiced by athletes, which requires a break in competition. Like an athlete, the empire will reenter the world stage in better shape, more muscular, with new ambitions, and most likely very angry about what was done during its absence.

Forty years since Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, Russia in Global Affairs asked political scientists and international relations experts in different countries to say how, living in a completely different world of today, they assess the events of that time and the role of his ‘new political thinking.’

170 positive years versus approximately 60 negative ones. Friendship and cooperation between the U.S. and Russia is their more natural state, and in the long run their relations are likely to return to this historical norm.

With any luck, Donald Trump’s second round in power may contribute to cooling down the British and other European leaders’ missionary zeal, although it is not so much the personality of the U.S. 47th President that matters as the revolutionary situation in the United States and the changing geopolitical and geo-economic configuration of the world.

Eighty years after Yalta, here’s why it can’t be repeated.

With any luck, Donald Trump’s second round in power may contribute to cooling down the British and other European leaders’ missionary zeal, although it is not so much the personality of the U.S. 47th President that matters but the revolutionary situation in the United States and the changing geopolitical and geo-economic configuration of the world.

We must again tread the path to stabilization and peaceful coexistence. But we will first need to set foot on that path.