A military revolt against Putin is more possible now than it was before the invasion of Ukraine, but the odds against it remain long. Wars like Putin’s can breed resentment… Read more »
The way a regime treats its own people is often indicative of how it will act toward other nations. Vladimir Putin has provided us with a tragic reminder of this… Read more »
Vladimir Putin’s savage attack on Ukraine has brutally brought to the fore the phenomenon known as “Londongrad”. The warm home the British establishment and its financial system provide for dirty… Read more »
In collaboration with European allies, the US Justice Department has launched ‘Task Force KleptoCapture’ to crack down on oligarchs and seize assets. “To those bolstering the Russian regime through corruption… Read more »
History has accelerated; the impossible has become possible. Shifts that no one imagined two weeks ago are unfolding with incredible speed, notes Anne Applebaum, the author of Twilight of Democracy: The… Read more »
A coalition of forty Ukrainian civil society groups today issued The Kyiv Declaration, a six-point appeal to the West’s democracies, listing urgent humanitarian and military demands. “There is no free… Read more »
A completely unnecessary war has started, born out of one man’s nostalgia, paranoia and fear of losing power, Anne Applebaum tweeted. Like the Russian czars before him—like Stalin, like Lenin—Putin… Read more »
In threatening Ukraine, the goal of the Russian Federation is to attack European democracy, the country’s Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova told CBS News. “The reason why Putin attacked… Read more »
It’s one of the few political problems that unites people across the political spectrum and across the globe, notes Ryan Heath of POLITICO’s Global Translations. But how can we actually… Read more »
American Purpose hosts a discussion with Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of Realism and Democracy, on Democracy Promotion—Lessons Learned…. Read more »