GIVE US A BREAK: RUSSIAN CONFERENCE ON BOSNIA, CLINTON ENDORSEMENT WILL ONLY APPEASE, EMBOLDEN SERBS
(Washington, D.C.): Just at the moment when even Belgrade's most assiduous apologists (e.g., former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger) were...
New Deterrent Working Group
RESTORATION WATCH #1: THE KREMLIN REVERTS TO FORM
(Washington, D.C.): With the possible exception of the Clinton Administration's ideologists, like Strobe Talbott, and their equally out-of-touch counterparts on...
THE CLINTON SECURITY CLEARANCE MELT-DOWN: ‘NO-GATE’ DEMONSTRATES ‘IT’S THE PEOPLE, STUPID’
(Washington, D.C.): In a landmark speech on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) delivered...
‘CULTS OF PERSONALITY’: U.S. POLICY-MAKERS’ BLIND SPOT BEGETS STRATEGIC ERRORS TOWARD ARAFAT, YELTSIN
(Washington, D.C.): During the 1992 campaign, candidates Bill Clinton and Al Gore were highly critical of the Bush Administration for...
NOT ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’: RUSSIAN SPYING REQUIRES SEA CHANGE IN BENIGN VIEW OF MOSCOW’S INTENTIONS
(Washington, D.C.): The real news from yesterday's intelligence bombshell -- for nine years, a well-placed U.S. official allegedly helped the...
SENATE SHOULD SEND A MESSAGE TO TALBOTT: HE HAS BEEN UNACCEPTABLY ‘WRONG’ ON RUSSIA, ISRAEL
(Washington, D.C.): The U.S. Senate is expected to vote today on the controversial nomination of Strobe Talbott to become Deputy...
CHECKMATE: RUSSIAN IMPERIALIST GAMBIT IN BOSNIA PROTECTS SERBS, DOOMS NATO INITIATIVE
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday's surprise announcement by Vitaly Churkin, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia and skillful flack for successive communist rulers...
WHO LOST RUSSIA? THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE TAKING IT BACK — THE SOVIETS AND THEIR FRIENDS
(Washington, D.C.): The nickel has dropped for all but the most self-deluding observers of developments in Russia: The relatively brief...
Trouble For Talbott’s ‘Less Shock – More Therapy Gambit: Even the Washington Post Says ‘No-Go’
(Washington, D.C.): On 20 December, Ambassador-at-Large for Russia and other former Soviet states Strobe Talbott ran up the proverbial flag-pole...
‘LE MOMENT ZHIRINOVSKY’: THE WEST CAN NO LONGER AFFORD ILLUSIONS OF AN ACCOMMODATING RUSSIA
(Washington, D.C.): The outcome of last weekend's elections in Russia should make one thing perfectly clear to the Clinton Administration:...
U.S. ‘DE-NUCLEARIZATION’: WHO IS MINDING THE STORE?
(Washington, D.C.): It is somehow fitting that the Secretary of Energy, Hazel O'Leary, chose Pearl Harbor Day 1993 to launch...
YALTA II: WESTERN MOSCOW-CENTRISM INVITES NEW INSTABILITY IN FORMER SOVIET EMPIRE
(Washington, D.C.): The just-completed NATO ministerial meetings in Brussels provide the latest evidence of the dangerous course being charted for...
Transformation Watch #13: Russian Reform Imperiled By Yeltsin Complicity In, Mishandling Of Currency Power Play
(Washington, D.C.): The dog days of summer have apparently brought another attempted coup d'etat to Moscow. Unlike 1991, however, nearly...
Russian Parliament’s Grab for Sevastopol Demand Immediate Shift In U.S. Stance On Ukrainian Nukes
(Washington, D.C.): The hardline communist/nationalist dominated-Russian parliament today voted overwhelmingly for a resolution proclaiming the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol to...
‘New Democrat’ Watch #8: Clinton Bungee-Jumping On Nuclear Testing Endangers National Security
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton used the 2 July edition of his weekly radio address to the nation to announce new...
Harbinger of Things to Come? Russian Energy Sector Imposes Boycott on Estonia after Getting U.S. Aid
(Washington, D.C.): With the world's attention squarely focussed over the week-end on the U.S. strike against Saddam Hussein's intelligence facilities,...