Liberals and Conservatives in America alike want to get rid of Donald Trump, but that will not solve the problem
The discussion in the United States since the election of Donald Trump has focused on how Russia interfered, colluded or meddled in the 2016 US Presidential Election. The news anchors and pundits in the United States have accepted it as fact that there was interference. Despite a lack of substantial proof, this is preventing an honest discussion ...
Amid endless talks about the ramifications of sanctions imposed against Russia, Western commentators and policy pundits are missing a critical point. Economic coercion imposed against Moscow, their argument runs, will enfeeble the Russian government and force it to yield to Western demands. Part of the logic is that Russia's ...
... – which proclaimed the Americas independent of continental powers’ meddling – was integral to the development of U.S. foreign policy thinking in the ensuing century. Despite the legacy of Wilsonian ideals, however, American foreign policy ... ... of the Western world.”
To be sure, reflecting on American exceptionalism in his infamy op-ed in the New York Times, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin said: “it is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional,...