Russia

How Conservatives Learned to Love the Soviet Union

The right-wing embrace of Vladimir Putin as a dictator and enemy of the freedoms Americans hold dear is a stunning rebuke to decades of struggle against Soviet tyranny

The United States Remains Deservedly Popular Abroad

Most of the world still looks to the United States for global leadership, particularly compared with China and Russia

Why Putin Will Never Give Up Kyiv, with or without a Trump-Brokered Deal

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

The Ball is in Putin’s Court – Will He Accept Trump’s Peace or Continue the War?

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?

Revisiting the Push for Peace in Ukraine

Harry Truman sought to end the Korean War years before it settled into a bloody stalemate characterized by attritional warfare. Could Trump be attempting something similar with Ukraine?

Putin’s Perpetual Political Theater and “The Wizard of the Kremlin”

A new novel (and movie) about Vladimir Putin’s chief spin-doctor explain how the true battle between Ukraine and Russia is not one of warring armies, but of competing narratives

America Must Not Legally Recognize Russia’s Annexation of Eastern Ukraine

The United States never legally recognized the Soviet occupation of the Baltics, and neither should America recognize Russia’s annexation of eastern Ukraine

The Spirit of Munich: Unjust Negotiations versus a Just Peace

A “peace at all costs” attitude belies that an unjust, strategically unsound peace that just kicks the can down the road will be no peace at all

Only Credible Deterrence Can Assure Lasting Peace

Ending conflicts is all well and good, but only if the peace is durable, reasonable, and within the national interest