Japan comes out swinging in wake of Ukraine, Taiwan threats
From reaching out to NATO (a fool’s errand) to pledging to bolster defense in the region (a better tack), Tokyo is flexing long unused muscles.
From reaching out to NATO (a fool’s errand) to pledging to bolster defense in the region (a better tack), Tokyo is flexing long unused muscles.
The White House may say it wants diplomacy but its actions — sending more advanced weapons — could have the opposite effect.
From the ‘with us or against us’ frame to the disproportionate fallout of the commodities crisis, these countries are non-aligned for a reason.
Horrified by the invasion, centrist elites like Dmitri Trenin nonetheless sense the US is using the conflict to destroy their country.
Unfortunately for establishment critics, the war in Ukraine is making their own case for US primacy less appetizing by the day.
Biden tells us we are not enabling Ukraine to strike outside its borders, but we seem to be giving it every opportunity to do so.
On this fight, it’s the libertarian and populist conservatives coming out to make arguments against proxy war and NATO expansionism. Why?
Erdogan’s gamble is a game of high-stakes poker, given that Russia is as much a partner as it is a threat.
The possible move is raising questions about whether it’s a first step toward inserting troops into direct combat in Ukraine.
After reading his latest on Ukraine, I’m grateful his bid for president fell short. He lacks basic qualities for the job, like common sense.
We know the thousands of deployed weapons on both sides have virtually no marginal utility. Time to get serious about drawing down.
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.