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Has Putin Won Round One in Ukraine? Feb. 18, 2022
When NBC's Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue... Read More
Homage to Ukraine Feb. 10, 2022
Washington — Well, Moscow is in the news again. Russian President Vladimir Putin is irritated ... Read More
Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine Feb. 08, 2022
When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved tr... Read More
NATO -- Strategic Asset or Liability? Feb. 01, 2022
Is the territorial integrity of Ukraine a cause worth America's fighting a war with Russia? No, it i... Read More
War And Peace: Reading Putin Better Jan. 26, 2022
WASHINGTON — Now is not a good time to go to war with Russia. The United States just ended a ... Read More
Biden Should Declare NATO Membership Closed Jan. 18, 2022
In 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a U.S.-backed coup that ousted a pro-Rus... Read More
Where Does NATO Enlargement End? Jan. 11, 2022
After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But... Read More
Russia Is Not the Great Rival; China Is Jan. 04, 2022
While all facts are true, not all facts are relevant. And what are the relevant facts in this crisis... Read More
How Biden and Putin Could End the Ukraine Crisis Dec. 31, 2021
A 19th-century Mexican president once summarized his country's plight: "So far from God, so close to... Read More
How We Forfeited the Fruits of Cold War Victory Dec. 28, 2021
As 1991 turned into 1992, America appeared to have arrived at the apogee of its national power and w... Read More
What To Do About That Russian Ultimatum Dec. 21, 2021
"Get off our front porch. Get out of our front yard. And stay out of our backyard." This might stand... Read More
Russia Is Testing Western Military Resolve Over Ukraine's Sovereignty Dec. 08, 2021
Vladimir Putin wants the world to forget what happened in 2014. That's the year he amassed troops at... Read More
Biden's Blindness on Ukraine Fits a US Pattern Dec. 08, 2021
President Joe Biden faces many foreign policy problems, but one involving Equatorial Guinea was not ... Read More
Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will Dec. 07, 2021
Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with "legal guarantees" that Ukraine will never join NATO or bec... Read More
Playing With Fire on Russia's Borders Nov. 23, 2021
Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has cleared out the encampment at his border crossing into ... Read More
Warnings and Threats -- or Bluster and Bluff Oct. 22, 2021
Before the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels this week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took a sid... Read More
Biden's Afghanistan Disaster Didn't Have To Happen Aug. 18, 2021
In the first two weeks of August, America's withdrawal from Afghanistan became a humiliating rout. M... Read More
The Fight Over Identity Aug. 18, 2021
In November 2009, the late Charles Krauthammer gave a seminal speech, titled "Decline Is a Choice." ... Read More
Boris Johnson Defies Vladimir Putin's Claim to Crimea Jun. 29, 2021
About that clash between a British destroyer and Russian warplanes and warships in the Black Sea las... Read More
How to Exit the Forever War Apr. 15, 2021
The courage of President Biden's decision to bring our troops home from Afghanistan should not be un... Read More
