Russian national identity should be defined by Russia’s rich spiritual heritage, as exemplified by Prince Demetrius Gallitzin, and not by Russia’s long history of military conquests

Recent Russian parliamentary sessions devoted to ‘combatting Satan’ are really just disguised exercises in smearing political opponents and Ukrainians as agents of irredeemable supernatural evil.

Editors Marc LiVecche, Mark Tooley and Robert Nicholson discuss Trump’s May Middle East trip and Ukraine’s recent drone attacks on Russia’s strategic bombers

Despite arguments that the US must prioritize Taiwan over Ukraine, the truth is that if the latter falls, the former will soon be next

Ukraine will do what any sovereign nation will do.

Recent court rulings in Ukraine show the limits of conscientious objection during existential threats to the nation

Editors James Diddams, Marc LiVecche, Mark Tooley and Robert Nicholson discuss Pope Francis’ legacy, Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East, and the idea of “spheres of influence” in US grand strategy

Putin invaded Ukraine not out of any material reason like economic interest or force projection, but of the spiritual conviction that Russia cannot be whole without Kyiv

Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible and on his terms. Will Putin accept an American-brokered peace or continue fighting?