Starving world’s poor by blocking grain exports by Trudy Rubin You may think you’ve seen every horror in Russia’s kit of war crimes against Ukraine (short of weapons of mass destruction). You haven’t. Moscow is blockading (or destroying) Ukraine’s port cities on the ...
by Elizabeth Shackelford This week, I’m getting married in France. I should be writing my vows, but instead I’m writing this column, though the concept of marriage is still on my mind. Being a foreign policy nerd, it occurs to me that the closest approximation to marriage in ...
by Erik Gartzke The war in Ukraine has gone well from the perspective of Western pundits and officials. Russia has seen a series of costly reversals on the battlefield because of poor military performance and overambitious plans. Now many in the West are debating what should happen ...
by Byron York In the days after Russia attacked Ukraine, there was a lot of talk among Republicans that Vladimir Putin would not have invaded had Donald Trump still been president. Trump was so difficult to predict, so impulsive, so impetuous, the thinking went, that Putin would not ...
On Feb. 24, when Putin (like other would-be conquerors we’ll be mentioning today, he only needs one name) invaded Ukraine, the Russian despot wanted to change history. That he did: Rather than divide and weaken NATO, he united and strengthened the Atlantic Alliance that has kept the peace ...
by Martin Schram We interrupt our regularly scheduled punditry to report some breaking news. NEWSBREAK: Russia’s state TV permitted a highly decorated retired army colonel to report some actual, factual news on Monday about what has really gone wrong with Russia’s flailing, ...