Why any US push for regime change in Moscow is a bad idea
There are many who won’t be satisfied with just getting Russia out of Ukraine — but removing Putin could backfire dramatically.
There are many who won’t be satisfied with just getting Russia out of Ukraine — but removing Putin could backfire dramatically.
Though the grouping is unlikely to become a formal alliance it’s essentially a security bloc by stealth.
Whether intentional or not, his insistence that the US will respond militarily to any Chinese attack belies a dangerous shift.
Western pundits and governments are wrongly using the war in Ukraine for goals (and distractions) that go far beyond the conflict there.
Zelensky is bringing his country together in unified resistance to Russian aggression. Can it remain that way beyond the invasion?
Washington only denies that it has “plans to destroy the Russian fleet.” This may be seen as another distinction without a difference.
Cooperation between Russia and China is conceptually — and historically — shallow. So why are we working to make it deeper?
It’s time to talk about what we can learn from NATO in Eastern Europe and its lessons for U.S. policy towards China.
We can’t just send weapons to Ukraine — the US has to be willing to help steer the negotiations, too.
It was our own policies that facilitated the rise and supported a corrupt crony plutocracy in Russia, pushed its security concerns, and more.
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 can no longer afford to be the “Uncle Sam, the policeman who saves the world,” no matter how good it feels.
They don’t need the protection, but it will be the nail in the coffin of European autonomy and any future relations with Russia.
Biden’s nominee for Ukraine ambassador hit all the right notes but left questions about Washington’s diplomatic role in ending the war.
Without a trace of skepticism, Margaret Brennan turned a Sunday morning interview into a Lockheed Martin sales pitch.
A trip to several countries in the wake of the Russian invasion conveyed a sense of why not all capitals are on board with the U.S. approach.
Instead of engaging in moves that escalate the conflict, the Biden team should focus on ways to end the war and the risks it could go nuclear.
While the war is not causing all of the world’s economic crises, ending it is becoming a matter of life and death.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s proposed AUMF is the latest salvo from DC’s elite pushing the US in the wrong direction to do more in Ukraine.
Declaring someone irrational leads to a place in which no one wants to negotiate, because, no one wants to talk to crazy people.
The Global South is not intimidated and has increasingly refused to ally with the West on sanctions and condemnations.