Patrick Lawrence: The Sino-Russian Summit You Didn’t Read About
The New York Times coverage of the recent summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping misses some of its most important details, writes Patrick Lawrence.
Patrick Lawrence: The Souls of Ukrainian Folk
As Kyiv prepares to persecute the souls of its own people, it seems we are about to witness just how inhumane this project has been from the outset.
Patrick Lawrence: A War of Rhetoric & Reality
Washington put us all on notice when Zelensky got to town: It has no intention of seeking a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis and every intention of recommitting indefinitely…
Patrick Lawrence: Between Myth and History
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Patrick Lawrence delivered the following remarks, based on his book Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, before the Committee for the…
Patrick Lawrence: In Ukraine, the Autumn of Oligarchs
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The nice thing about being an oligarch is that you are so wealthy it doesn’t matter that you are looked upon as a…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany & The Lies of Empire
With Angela Merkel’s revelations of Berlin’s duplicity in its dealings with Moscow, Cold War II just got colder.
Patrick Lawrence: The Trans-Atlantic Rift Grows Wider
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What an occasion, President Biden’s first state dinner. Better late than not at all, given it came last Thursday evening, nearly two years…
Patrick Lawrence: Zhou Enlai’s Posthumous Triumph
Nations now fashioning a post–Western world order appear to be abiding by the Five Principles espoused by China’s first and long-serving premier.
Patrick Lawrence: Biden Sides With Trump in Killing Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Among our mentally impaired president’s more prominent campaign pledges during the 2020 political campaigns was that his national security people would negotiate America’s…
Patrick Lawrence: Why Do Nations Erase the Past?
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost A recent report by the German news agency DPA has had me thinking ever since about various small, inconsequential matters: war, nationalism, identity,…
Patrick Lawrence: More Futile Pacific Overtures
Nearly halfway through Biden’s term in office he finally met the Chinese president to discuss the single most important relationship between any two nations anywhere in the world.
Patrick Lawrence: Why Are the Russians Retreating in Ukraine?
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The most opaque war in my lifetime and probably yours, the war we can hardly see because the reporting is so bad, just…
Patrick Lawrence: Why Is The New York Times Still Hyping ‘Russiagate’?
Veteran foreign correspondent Patrick Lawrence takes issue with this Sunday's New York Times Magazine.
Patrick Lawrence: Disinformation, Absolutely
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost 1. Everything you will read in this commentary is disinformation. 2. To say that this commentary contains disinformation is disinformation. 3. To say…
Patrick Lawrence: The Democrats’ Assault on Diplomacy
Actions speak louder than words and the Dems' "diplomacy first" approach has been all bark and no bite.