Russia’s self-defeating move in pausing nuke talks with US
Moscow appears to be trying to pressure Washington on Ukraine but abandoning New START would carry wider security risks.
Moscow appears to be trying to pressure Washington on Ukraine but abandoning New START would carry wider security risks.
In recent weeks, leaders in both Kyiv and Moscow have argued that the Minsk agreements are no longer worth the paper they’re printed on.
Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to Washington highlights the French president’s desire to take a more assertive role in the Indo-Pacific.
But Morning Consult should be taken to task for calling this impulse a ‘preference for isolationism’ versus ‘engagement.’
After a precipitous decline in confidence, the Ronald Reagan Institute poll asked for reasons. The answers are illuminating.
While the French leader will no doubt be feted and flattered, differences on Ukraine and the European economic crisis loom.
A tight, privileged fraternity of religious leaders has monopolized power in Tehran since 1979. It’s now backed itself into a corner.
Three new books dissent from the orthodoxy, helping to illuminate key aspects of the conflict and the crisis between Russia and the West.
Again doubling down on the ‘open door’ mantra, why does the alliance continue to send the wrong signals to Kyiv?
Algiers has interests in keeping good relations with Moscow and the West, but Putin prolonging the conflict could change the calculation.
Washington has a habit of getting involved in ways that make things worse for demonstrators on the ground.
VP Harris says Washington is committed to stretching the security guarantee, which may put us closer to a confrontation with China.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is the latest high-level Western official to visit the region, and Moscow isn’t happy.
A history of the region’s relationship with Ukrainian rule before 2014 shows why Kyiv’s attempt to retake it would be so difficult.
The island, which has been continuously colonized since the 1490s, is a linchpin of US power projection overseas.
And so is his bottom line: that the world not only craves, but needs an ‘American-led order.’ Stick a fork in it, this bird’s done.
A new official watchdog report sheds light on what led to the Taliban’s rapid takeover last year and implications for America’s future foreign policy.
After years of engagement and accommodation, Trudeau’s government is taking a much tougher tone with Beijing and it shows.
They may be baby steps but Washington should see resurrected climate dialogue with China as a bilateral win.
Time to move towards making North Korea a responsible nuclear weapons state. The alternative could be much more terrifying.
It’s not hard to think of the world’s biggest sporting event as a microcosm of our turbulent geopolitics today.