In 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” ... In 2008, when Russia invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia, editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in the October 2008..…

Why US elites, after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, ultimately chose Cold War rather than partnership with Russia is a question beyond my purpose here. ... In any event, once this approach to post-Soviet Russia began, promoting it was not hard. ..…

It might have done more to help Russia in its early post-Soviet days. . ... Bush US Presidents National Security Council Cold War soviet union Mikhail Gorbachev Russia Gulf War Saddam Hussein Project Syndicate . . . ..…

So, what happened 100 years in the trenches of France, Germany and even post Soviet Russia, and Erdogan's Turkey. ..…

It has already engaged in decades-long, half-baked provocation of Russia, through the expansion of NATO during the 1990s and 2000s, taking in once Soviet territories such as Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic, and, even more uncomfortably, Baltic states, too constantly making eyes at..…