And What Are These Two Doing With Each Other?

To be sure, Russia and Japan are not natural security partners. In the twentieth century, they fought two wars against each other, first in 1904­­–05, and again in 1945. Japan seized territory from Russia in the first; Russia seized territory from Japan in the second. In the following decades, the two countries largely kept their […]

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Assad’s Winning In Syria And Little Can Be Done…

The Syrian opposition is in disarray; approving a major American military intervention is politically impossible in post-Iraq Washington; and a rift between Saudi Arabia and Qatar has slowed their delivery of weaponry to the rebels. Diplomatically, Washington’s key interlocutor is Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, one of Assad‘s primary international defenders. One key factor favors […]

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