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PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Sudden-Seeming Power Shift in the Middle East

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Sudden-Seeming Power Shift in the Middle East

October 28, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Despite the high-speed impression created by events in the past few weeks, the shifting trends of Russian and U.S. influence on the region have been underway for years.  Rarely do world events move at the velocity they now assume in the…

Discerning Vladimir Putin

Discerning Vladimir Putin

October 19, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Raritan

We have left behind the Russian dolls, one inside the other as if occlusion were their very point. “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” Churchill’s famous mot (invariably quoted out of context) is no longer for us….

Let’s Not Fall Into the Cold-War Arms-Control Trap

Let’s Not Fall Into the Cold-War Arms-Control Trap

March 27, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

For our national security, we need self-control more than we need arms-control talks. Let us think together about the letter four United States senators sent recently to the now departed secretary of state Rex Tillerson, urging him to start arms-control…

Why Russia Is Emerging as the World’s Indispensable Diplomatic Power

Why Russia Is Emerging as the World’s Indispensable Diplomatic Power

February 22, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

Moscow, working in concert with others, has set courses toward the diplomatic resolution of several key conflicts. There was a remarkable succession of events in the skies over Syria earlier this month. I see lessons in what happened that none…

When Putin Talks, It Is Worth Listening

When Putin Talks, It Is Worth Listening

December 20, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

On foreign-policy questions, many Russians stand shoulder-to-shoulder with their leader. Vladimir Putin gave another of his end-of-year press conferences last week—nationally televised events consisting of an always-curious combination of Q&A, opinionating, offhand banter, observations on a wide range of domestic…

American policy totally failed in Syria — let’s be thankful

American policy totally failed in Syria — let’s be thankful

November 26, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Despite media obfuscation, last week’s meeting between Putin and Assad suggests a new order in the Middle East I kept hearing National Public Radio programs this week to the effect that liberals and “progressives,” not to mention those in the…

Trump’s foreign policy is confused — but it isn’t really Trump’s

Trump’s foreign policy is confused — but it isn’t really Trump’s

November 19, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Trump had one consequential moment during his Asia trip — and everyone in the rudderless American media missed it No sooner did Donald Trump return a week ago from his 12-day escapade in Asia than the bickering began. Did the…

Trump Talks to Putin, and Suddenly Ukraine’s in Play

Trump Talks to Putin, and Suddenly Ukraine’s in Play

February 3, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Fighting erupted in Ukraine after many months of uneasy but consistent calm after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the U.S. and Russian presidents, finally spoke for the first time last weekend by telephone. Instantly, the Trump White House is faced…

How Romney or Giuliani Would Shape Trump’s Russia Policy

How Romney or Giuliani Would Shape Trump’s Russia Policy

December 2, 2016 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

President-elect Trump’s behaving like a 70-year-old Hamlet these days: Will he or won’t he name Mitt Romney his Secretary of State? Or will it be Rudy Giuliani, David Petraeus, Bob Corker or an “outsider.” This is big and Trump must…

John Kerry’s last hurrah: With the Syrian cease-fire, the secretary of state takes a parting swipe at Russophobia

John Kerry’s last hurrah: With the Syrian cease-fire, the secretary of state takes a parting swipe at Russophobia

September 14, 2016 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

The cease-fire ends his successful skirmish with the Pentagon, but the war will grind on long after Kerry is gone Secretary of State John Kerry now gives us another “cessation of hostilities” agreement — a not-quite-cease-fire — as signed with…

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