by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
If there were a Russian version of the website PropOrNot, Academician Arbatov could find himself listed there as “American agent/dupe.”
Arbatov directs the International Security Center of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He demonstrates his Washington leanings by his recommendation that Russia avoid a strategic alliance with China. This, of course, is a Washington position. It seems curious coming from a Russian security expert at a time when US foreign policy is dominated by neoconservatives who are hostile to both Russia and China because the two countries are obstacles to American hegemony.