Russia

The Case for Interdicting Sanctions-Evading Cargo Ships

In order to tighten sanctions against Russia, Venezuela, and Iran, the Navy & Coast Guard should be used to interdict sanctions-evading cargo vessels and letters of marque should be issued against contraband carrying ships

What ‘America First’ Means for Ukraine and Europe 

Trump’s pivot to apparently full-throated support for Ukraine underscores a core principle of his “America First” doctrine: non-ideological flexibility in pursuit of U.S. national security objectives

Meeting Monsters?

Monsters must be dealt with. But there should never be confusion about what they are.

Mahan, Mackinder, and the New ‘Problem of Asia’

In the 19th and 20th century, Britain and America feared Russian dominion over all Eurasia. Today, China represents the same geostrategic threat to the West

We’re All Going to Die

The past five years’ cascade of crises points toward even darker storms ahead unless America changes course

The Russian Prince-Turned-Priest of Western Pennsylvania

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

Will the World’s Largest Muslim-Majority Country Slide into Authoritarianism?

Will Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority democracy, resist creeping authoritarianism or slide back under military rule as old power networks reemerge?

Putin’s Attempts to Ban ‘Satanism’ Are Just Another Means of Crushing Internal Dissent

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.

Episode 90 | Is There a Trump Doctrine? And What Just Happened in Ukraine

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