We don’t write the rules anymore, and when we try, we make things worse
The US needs to think outside the box and help create a new security architecture that not only includes Russia but perhaps replaces NATO.
The US needs to think outside the box and help create a new security architecture that not only includes Russia but perhaps replaces NATO.
They don’t need the protection, but it will be the nail in the coffin of European autonomy and any future relations with Russia.
While the war is not causing all of the world’s economic crises, ending it is becoming a matter of life and death.
His success may have led to further instability in states across the former Yugoslavia, diverting attention from larger US-EU strategic goals.
The French president has been pushing diplomacy with Russia and for regional autonomy. Not all of his neighbors think that way.
The allies did not invite Ukraine into NATO because they didn’t want to risk war. The same rationale applies to these two countries.
These presidential candidates, locked now in a super tight race, have vastly differing positions on Russia and European cohesion.
Amid the war in Ukraine, Europe has shown more willingness to provide for its own defense and the Biden team should encourage it.
Unlike his neighbors, he’s been forthright on diplomacy with Russia and regional autonomy — and that’s a good thing.
In their approach to Iran, Western policymakers should think beyond non-proliferation to account for the country’s attempts at strategic balancing.
It would not only split NATO, but could end up being one of the most disastrous foreign policy gambits ever taken by the US.
Such measures are critical to holding Moscow accountable for its actions — but they are not a longterm fix and must be carefully calibrated.
International condemnation has been swift as world leaders set to meet today and Biden expected to implement another tranche of sanctions.
The foreign policy of the Western states has been reduced to rhetorical appeals to the ‘rules-based order’ and little else.
Both Moscow and Washington have violated international law in Europe when it suits their purposes and satisfies their quests for power.
Let there be no mistake, sanctions could have a significant negative impact on global markets and drive inflation to new heights.
If God forbid the administration fires it, the results will be to wound Moscow, but also to blow off America’s own toes.
Instead of working toward a new, inclusive European security order, Clinton expanded NATO over the objections of a prostrate Russia.
Putin has been sending warning signals for over a decade; once the Ukraine crisis is over, nothing will be the same.
Getting out of the Cold War rut takes time but it’s imperative, else all parties are doomed to repeat history.
There are three likely explanations, most with an interest in getting the UK a geopolitical upper hand.