Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, and more urgently since President Putin came to office in 1999, the issue in international relations was how to make what had now become a unipolar world dominated by hostile American interests and preferences into a multipolar world. While Boris Yeltsin was in charge this was … Continue reading The Endless and Frustrating Attempts to Outflank American Power

President Putin is up for re-election on 18 March and things are not going well. Although effective competition for the election was long ago eliminated by fair means or foul, criticism, largely indirect, has been mounting from within the Russian establishment. Not so long ago the Chief of the General Staff came under direct attack … Continue reading Putin Under Pressure