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Fateful errors: Why NATO leaders should have listened to George Kennan in 1997
World
Fateful errors: Why NATO leaders should have listened to George Kennan in 1997
April 18, 2025

In 1997, veteran U.S. diplomat George Kennan stated that ‘expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American foreign policy in the entire post-Cold War era’.

Why Putin Criticized the Bolshevik Counter Revolution: Trotsky, Parvus and the War on Civilization
November 1, 2021

Doesn’t Putin respect Soviet Russian accomplishments including the sacrifices made to put down Hitler? How could Putin be a true anti-imperialist if he is an anti-revolutionary?

Why Putin Criticized the Bolshevik Counter Revolution: Trotsky, Parvus and the War on Civilization
History
NATO Repeats the Great Mistake of the Warsaw Pact
World
NATO Repeats the Great Mistake of the Warsaw Pact
August 15, 2018

The NATO expansion – which the legendary George Kennan presciently warned against in vain – continues to drive the world the closer towards the threat of thermonuclear war.

A Dangerous Crossroads: What’s in Store for the Relations Between Russia and the West?
April 3, 2018

No, it’s not a return to George Kennan and his containment policy. It looks more like a slow strangulation, with mounting pressure everywhere.

A Dangerous Crossroads: What’s in Store for the Relations Between Russia and the West?
Security
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Trump and Revenge of the ‘Realists’
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Trump and Revenge of the ‘Realists’
January 2, 2017

Henry Kissinger’s potential role as an intermediary between President-elect Trump and Russian President Putin suggests a comeback by the old-line “realists” versus the neocons and liberal interventionists, writes Gilbert Doctorow