by Trudy Rubin ODESA, Ukraine — One year ago, just as I arrived in this historic port city, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to stop blockading Ukraine’s […]
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Sweden and Finland give NATO a strategic opportunity in the Arctic
by James Stavridis In the wake of Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the alliance can take a well-deserved victory lap. I commanded […]
Yes, cluster munitions are awful. No, that doesn’t mean the U.S. shouldn’t give them to Ukraine
by Jonah Goldberg The controversy over the Biden administration’s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions reminded me of my old boss William F. Buckley’s famous rejoinder […]
We never use torture, nuclear weapons or cluster munitions, unless we need to
by John M. Crisp No terrain is more difficult to defend than the moral high ground. As a rule, however, America has done a decent job of […]
Sizing up Ukraine’s counteroffensiveis difficult in the fog of war
by Daniel DePetris After months of speculation about when Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive will begin, we now have an answer: right now. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, […]
Discord leaks make high stakes in Ukraine’s spring offensive higher
by Doyle McManus The bizarre torrent of intelligence documents posted on a gamers’ chat server, allegedly by a 21-year-old National Guard technician, produced headlines last week about […]
Putin’s war on Ukraine in the sinister tradition of the Russian war machine
by Jonah Goldberg Vladimir Putin and his war machine get more respect than they deserve from the West. This may seem a bit counterintuitive. After all, just […]
Now that Finland is part of NATO, can it help Ukraine fight Russia?
by Emma Ashford Officials at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization were celebrating at their headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday as the alliance welcomed Finland into its fold. […]
Putin ups ante with nukes in Belarus
by Andreas Kluth Let’s all hope that Chinese President Xi Jinping sees this outrage as a personal affront and gives his “friend” in Moscow a good talking […]
Republican disagreement over Ukraine support echoes isolationists of WWII
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The pointed exchanges among Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers about the U.S. commitment to Ukraine is a reminder that some policy debates never […]