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Alexander J. Motyl, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
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...
While Ukraine and the West are willing to make concessions in order to reach a compromise with Russia, Putin is not. He will accept a compromise...
Sloppiness and insults may work in the private sector, but they are no way to run a semi-governmental agency whose job is to investigate which...
Russia’s prime-time “60 Minutes” program congratulated Melania Trump on her husband’s electoral victory by displaying on air a handful of nude...
No one wants World War III, of course. But, ironically, the policymakers and pundits who say they want it least are those most likely to start it.
Are Western policymakers ignorant? Of course not. Their problem is different.
WarGonzo’s Oct. 5 Telegram posting is especially interesting in what it reveals about real Russian attitudes toward the Ukraine war.
As the Russian economy tanks, immiseration and social discontent grow, and money dries up, Putin won’t have the resources to fuel his war machine.
I can think of no country, in the West or elsewhere, that actively aspires to Russia’s break up.
Putin has no one to blame for the shameful state of affairs but himself.
As a closer look at Trump’s rhetoric shows, it’s clear that he feels threatened by Zelensky, whom he has called "the greatest salesman in history...
The task before Russian liberals who want to transform their country into a decent society may be impossible.
Ukrainians are no longer a ragtag bunch of people thrown together by fate.
Xi Jinping may be reluctant to exercise China’s right to reclaim its historically Chinese territories today, but he must know — as does Putin —...
Two recently posted letters, by two courageous young women, convey the extent of human suffering that Vladimir Putin has caused, the resilience of...
Thanks to black swans, theories never die.
The 53-year-old Zakrevsky is no liberal and no good guy.
Not only is there no end to historical arguments — for the simple reason that no historical interpretation of anything can ever be final — but...
The West’s greatest sin regarding today’s Russia is to have failed to see Moscow as it truly was and look beyond it, at Russia’s neighbors.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's "goulash dictatorship" has been compared to the more open and prosperous regime of Janos Kadar, but his...
A failure on the battlefield, Putin proved to be able to outwit the West at the negotiating table.
We generally eschew discussions of God in policy debates, but Trump’s alliance with the Almighty makes such a discussion imperative.
Russia’s war against Ukraine has little to do with its putative NATO membership at some undetermined future time.