A Yellow Guard

That, at least, was Richard Nixon's verdict on November 1971.  His successors in office since 1989 would have done well to remember th...

The Hindustan Times , 18th March 2014 This morning Russia and the newly declared independent Republic of Crimea (along with the city o...

After having fought the Crimean War, Russia felt that its possessions in North America were vulnerable from attack by Britain from British N...

In an insighful piece in last Sunday's Observer , Dmitri Trenin drew attention to the importance, from Moscow's perspective, of the...

Who did Henry work for, goddamn it? RT @wagssid @dick_nixon Do we need to send Henry to settle the Russians? — Richard M. Nixon (@dick_...

In the past few days it has become very fashionable to rehabilitate Mitt Romney's foreign affairs credentials, and to assert that he wa...

As if on cue from my blog post yesterday that compared Russian president Vladimir Putin and former U.S. president Richard Nixon, Putin toda...

If you have been confused about what has been happening in Ukraine over the past week and went online or picked up a paper to try and find o...

Obama during his 90-minute phone all with Putin. I've been pretty busy these past few days and am just properly catching up...

US intel agencies insist Russia is bluffing in Ukraine, reports @elilake . http://t.co/eEag0QR2hw — davidfrum (@davidfrum) February 28, 20...

Tim Stanley has a good blogpost in The Telegraph , although I find his use of the phrase "new Cold War" as a lazy shorthand for...

My blog post on Sunday about Ukraine disagreed with a New York Times analysis of the driving factors behind the crisis there, particularly...

In today's New York Times ($) David Herszenhorn concludes that, in part, the current crisis and violence in Ukraine is a leftover from ...