Translator’s Note: France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, will not say there will never be French troops — or NATO troops — on the ground in Ukraine. This is common sense, and, to take a line from commentators in the U.S. who…
It is the morning of May 12, 1892, and the Lithuanian-born landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan has just left his home and studio on Moscow’s leafy Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane to spend the summer sketching and painting amid the endless expanse…
India’s ontological question is: Who are we — a regional or global power? Narendra Modi, the most popular and consequential leader of India since Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister after independence in 1947, can help answer this question. Modi’s…
How does the Ukraine-Russia war end? In an October surprise. Ukraine, which became independent on 24 August 1991, will be dissolved and a New Ukraine will come into being by virtue of a unilateral declaration by the present Government of…
“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.” So declared Joseph Stalin, the murderous tyrant whose own death arrived on March 5, 1953, five months after the birth of Vladimir Putin. Stalin’s death solved a great problem for his vast…
The Russians have taken Avdiivka, and President Joe Biden faces a tough choice: he either closes the Mexican border or loses Ukraine. The $61 billion supplemental aid package for Ukraine, which may be the minimum required to block further Russian…
I The Hall of the Order of St. Catherine is the most intimate of the five staterooms within the forbidding walls of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Lacking the martial character of the Hall of the Order of St. George, and…
Russian President Vladimir Putin loves to mock the United States and everything we do. His poker-faced announcement that he has endorsed Joe Biden in the 2024 election was more than just mockery. Putin’s statement was a factual condemnation of Biden’s…
As Vladimir Putin talked to Tucker Carlson about the “Russian soul” last week, his troops were breaking through Ukrainian defenses in a key sector of the besieged city of Avdiivka, which has become the latest pivotal battle of the war. …
WASHINGTON — During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he has no interest in expanding the war in Ukraine to Poland and Latvia. So with former Polish President Lech Walesa speaking at a Friday event…