Ukraine

John Mearsheimer gets it right on Ukraine and Gaza; but should his “Realism” be guiding America’s strategic direction?

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Gr5 April 2024 Graham E. Fuller Graham Fuller is a longtime CIA operations officer, who subsequently headed up CIA’s National Intelligence Council for Long Range Strategic Forecasting, later served as an analyst in International Relations over a decade at the RAND Corporation. He speaks numerous languages of the the region including Russian, Turkish and Arabic.  […]

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Long Term Implications of the US destruction of Nordstream 2 Pipeline

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Graham E. Fuller,  14 February  2023 The disturbing and detailed reportage by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh on Washington’s sabotage of the Russian Nordstream 2 gas pipeline to Germany now provides new perspective on the momentous series of geopolitical trends that began with the war in Ukraine. My own assessment of the Russian […]

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Some hard thoughts about post Ukraine

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by Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller. com) 18 June 2022 The war in Ukraine has dragged on long enough now to reveal certain clear trajectories. First, two fundamental realities: Putin is to be condemned for launching this war– as is virtually any leader who launches any war.  Putin can be termed a war criminal–in good company […]

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Washington Denies Reality of “Spheres of Influence”–a New Pinnacle of Hypocrisy

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Graham E. Fuller (bozorgg@aol.com) 6 February 2022 The Biden administration recently issued an incredibly naive statement –rewriting history and the nature of international relations– when Blinken informed Moscow that “spheres of influence should be relegated to the dustbin of history.” So Ukraine can’t possibly lie lie within Russia’s security and influence sphere.  Take that, Putin! […]

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150211 – Three (Encouraging) Cases of Disastrous Political Overreach

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150211 – Three (Encouraging) Cases of Disastrous Political Overreach There is a saying in classical Chinese: wu ji bi fan: When things reach extremes they must reverse course. That isn’t always true of course. But every once in a while, just when things seem to be getting really dark—and it especially happens in the Middle […]

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