Thomas Waldhauser told House Armed Services Committee last month that Russia was backing Haftar in part to gain influence in area to NATO's south.. ..…

Unfortunately, when Soviet Union collapsed the opportunity to end once and for all the confrontation that threatened annihilation was squandered as President Bill Clinton chose instead to humiliate and use NATO to contain already demoralized Russia.. ..…

If Putin had given Trump a playbook for handling issues important to Russia, it wouldn’t have looked much different from the one Trump followed. He has attacked NATO, pledged to withdraw troops from Syria and spared Russia the kind of criticism Trump regularly doles out to..…

Burns, then the U.S. minister-counselor for political affairs in Russia, recounts: “Sitting at the embassy in Moscow in the mid-1990s, it seemed to me that NATO expansion was premature at best, and needlessly provocative at worst. … It was wishful thinking, however, to believe that we..…

'>6 This did not mean that Russia was treated as a defeated power, and numerous initiatives, ranging from the NATO-Russia Founding Act on Mutual Relations of 1997 to the establishment of the NATO-Russia Council in 2002, sought to create a framework for interaction...…

That the US is not already formally at war with Russia (even with NATO forces all along its borders) has only to do with the latter’s nuclear arsenal deterrent. ... While NATO, which together has 20 times the military spending of Russia and includes member states along..…