A two-page paid editorial appeared in the Dec. 22 Washington Times under the title “Christmas Wishes for U.S.-Russia Relations: From Confrontation to Win-Win Cooperation.” The two pages included statements by a variety of people including American University in Moscow’s Edward Lozansky, Martin Sieff, and Col. Richard Black (ret.). Both Lozansky and Colonel Black (a former Virginia state senator) talk about how it is necessary to abolish NATO and establish a broad working relationship with Russia. Martin Sieff calls on the incoming Biden Administration to “[stop] any further plans and moves toward continued NATO expansion” “immediately accept Russia’s proposal to renew the … New START ... with no changes….” and “launch a bilateral process directly with Moscow aimed immediately [at] stopping any further plans and moves towards continued NATO expansion and pull U.S. military advisers and weapon supplies out of Georgia and Ukraine.”
Other contributors were Herbert Reginbogin at the Institute for Policy Research; Glenn Diesen from the University of South Eastern Norway; William Jeynes, a professor at California State University; and Suzanne Massie, and author and Russian historian, who served as Ronald Reagan’s “ghost whisperer” on Russian affairs.
