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Alexander J. Motyl, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
Nepal looked stable, and few would have expected such an outburst.
Russians, and only Russians, can solve this moral dilemma.
If Trump truly wants a Nobel by bringing peace to Ukraine and Russia, he will have to address the primary “root cause” of the war: Putin.
Putin will not and cannot negotiate in good faith, whether in Alaska or elsewhere.
Vladimir Putin recently admitted that Russia is an artificial construct created by violence.
Trump showed that Russia is a bit player with oversized delusions of grandeur.
Putin, in gifting Safronov’s portrait, presumably knew that Trump would appreciate it.
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The longer and nastier their relations, the worse for both — and the better for America and the world.
There’s more to the story than numbers of men, money and materiel. Leadership, morale, tactics, strategy, quality of weapons and other...
Though neither a superpower nor a has-been superpower, Ukraine is the only country that can effectively end the war.
The editors of Switzerland’s leading newspaper knew they had a terrific headline when political scientist John Mearsheimer stated in an interview...
As tragic as Viktoria Roshchyna’s death is, it’s also profoundly political.
Trump and Vance prefer comfort to hardship, dislike Ukraine and feel some guilt for the crimes they are abetting.
How does President Trump’s deal-making record with respect to the Russo-Ukrainian War stack up against that of Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky?
Like it or not, the world is divided into nations, most of which aspire to independent statehood, and into countries, which always manage to elicit...
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Orbán’s semi-authoritarian regime openly flouts freedom, democracy, the rule of law, minority rights, pluralism, tolerance and justice.
Although political culture is never the immediate cause of aggression, it is a powerful facilitator thereof.
Two-and-a-half cheers for Biden’s Ukraine policy. Three loud boos for Trump’s.
Despite its chest-beating rhetoric, the Trump regime is actually brittle and fated to ineffectiveness, collapse or both.
The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB...
Does Russia’s president know that his “special military operation” against Ukraine has turned into disaster for Russia? Or does he really think...
Empires are costly and inefficient, and imperialism is costly and counterproductive, with both combining to generate the very forces that eventually...
President-elect Trump kicked off Wednesday morning by asking the Supreme Court to halt the scheduled Friday sentencing in his New York hush money...
Yes, Russia is making incremental advances, but no, those gains don’t amount to a blitzkrieg.
When recently asked at a press conference whether he believes Russia’s war with Ukraine will end in 2025, Vladimir Putin gave an odd answer. “I...
Vladimir Putin’s recent end-of-the-year press conference was mostly a self-congratulatory snooze, but there were several moments that revealed the...
It took Assad’s regime to fall and Putin to accept it meekly for the West to appreciate that things weren’t all that rosy in Tsar Vladimir’s...
They can repress, oppress and suppress a will, but sooner or later their seemingly stable regimes will fall.
The Russo-Ukrainian war cannot end until all sides want a stable and just peace, and the greatest obstacle to such an outcome is the Russian...