Eleven months ago, President Joe Biden came to Poland to denounce a war he’d hoped to avoid. On Tuesday, he returned having fully embraced the mantle of wartime leader, boasting… Read more »
Russia‘s conduct of the war in Ukraine flouts the most basic international laws and conventions, posing a fundamental threat to the global order. As such, it offers a textbook example… Read more »
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky today addressed a joint session of the UK Parliament shortly after making a surprise trip to the UK, the BBC reports (above). Hundreds of MPs and… Read more »
If democratic electorates agree to go on absorbing the costs of supporting Ukraine, it will be because they have been persuaded, not just that the Ukrainian cause is just but… Read more »
If Vladimir Putin is allowed to prevail and sell the war in Ukraine as a victory to his people, it will reinforce Russia’s aggressive posture, embolden the use of force… Read more »
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently appealed for a “Marshall Plan” to rebuild war-scarred Ukraine, Deutsche Welle reports. Unlike its predecessor, which rebuilt… Read more »
For all of the rhetoric about democracies versus autocracies being the defining challenge of our times, if democracies are in trouble, autocracies may be the least of their problems, a… Read more »
The Ukrainians are going to continue to rout the Russians. It’s hard to know exactly how long it’s going to take. But I think it’s going to happen sooner rather… Read more »
Though Putin had the reputation of a strategic genius when he started this war 6 months ago, the #Ukrainians have exposed him as a plodding and unimaginative thinker who miscalculated… Read more »
President Vladimir V. Putin’s decision this week to expand the size of his military offered further evidence for a conviction taking hold in both Russia and Ukraine: The two sides are… Read more »