In the 16 months since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, it has become clear that President Vladimir Putin’s aim to install a Russian-subservient government or to annex much of the country’s territory is unlikely to succeed at costs anywhere near…
WASHINGTON — There was a curious report in the Washington Post late last month. I saw it in no other newspaper. It began thus: “When Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, launched his attempted mutiny on the…
As unbelievable and unforeseen events unfold right in front of our eyes in Russia, more people begin to ask: What’s the end game? How will this bloodiest war in Europe since World War II end? What will the future of…
When Edward Luttwak speaks, world leaders listen — and now they must consider heeding his advice on Ukraine. Luttwak has been advising world leaders, including U.S. presidents, since the 1980s. He is the author of seminal books on history and…
A recent Fareed Zakaria Washington Post op-ed nicely summarized our new reality: There is a debate within the Republican Party. Some senior figures, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and former vice president Mike Pence, are vigorously making the case for an active and…
In 1946, George Kennan, the U.S. Charge D’Affaires in Moscow, sent an 8,000 word telegram to the State Department warning of Joseph Stalin’s aggressive foreign policy. The following year, writing under the pseudonym “Mister X,” he reiterated his warning in…
The state of religious liberty across the globe is worsening, and Biden’s U.S. State Department is being accused of turning a blind eye to increasing persecution of Christians. In a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Global Health…
A former member of the Obama State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, writing in Foreign Affairs, has called for President Joe Biden to offer Russia what Woodrow Wilson offered Germany after World War I. Max Bergmann, currently at the Center for…
WASHINGTON — Well, how are things going for Vladimir Putin? He has been showing a KGB sleuth’s cunning at warfare for over a year now, and he has been doing it against an enemy who is outgunned and outnumbered. Oh…
