President Trump called Putin “crazy” following his massive missile barrage on Kyiv last week and warned that if he tried taking all of Ukraine, “Russia would cease to exist.” But he still won’t rush to impose secondary sanctions to shut…
Russia is positioning forces for a major spring offensive all along Ukraine’s front line, which may last well into the summer, according to many analysts. Putin wants to fully control at least three of Ukraine’s four eastern regions prior to…
“Zelensky’s decision to expose the cream of his army to occupy a piece of vacant wasteland in the world’s largest country, to supposedly strengthen his bargaining power with Putin, could backfire. Russia can now threaten to annihilate his crack troops…
There was a disaster at the White House on Friday. The public spat that resulted in Donald Trump accusing the Ukrainian president of being “disrespectful” and “unwilling to pursue a negotiated peace” has further deepened the negative perceptions of the…
I’ve seen neighborhood meetings to decide who is the pig that throws cigarette butts into the common yard calmer than the meeting between Zelensky, Trump, and Vance. The video will go down in history. And I have mixed feelings about…
I Each day brings forth some new enormity perpetrated by the Russian military against the people of Ukraine, as it has for three long years now. In recent weeks we have seen Russian ballistic missiles rain down on Odesa’s historic…
This has obviously been a bad week for Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy and for his country. I fear, however, that it’s proving to be an equally bad week for Donald Trump and for U.S. national security policy. Someone should be taking…
The 61st Munich Security Conference will take place Feb. 14-16 at Munich’s renowned Hotel Bayerischer Hof, located on the edge of Munich’s old town on the Promenade Platz. Much is expected of this year’s conference since it’s been widely assumed…
I Anna Yaroslava, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise and granddaughter of Volodymyr the Great, passed her youth among the golden-domed cathedrals and gold-tipped terem-style towers of medieval Kyiv, but in 1050 she found herself betrothed to Henri I, the widowed…
