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Moscow has overcome Western economic sanctions and honed a bigger and more effective military through 18 months of combat The US-led drive to isolate Russia and the attempt to debilitate its economy and military using Ukraine – acknowledged as a “proxy war” even by some Western leaders – appears to be having the opposite effect by…

Even the most “avid Russophobes” understand the futility of these efforts, the country’s ambassador to the US has said The ease with which Washington opted to abandon its own “fundamental principles” amid its effort to hurt Moscow is “astonishing,” Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has said. At the same time, even the most…