Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Moscow has come a long way since it started massing troops and military equipment at the border with Ukraine back in April 2021. At the time, President Putin chose to call it just a military exercise…

Maia Otarashvili

Russia Thinks America Is Bluffing

As talks between US and Russian diplomats begin in Geneva over the fate of Ukraine, Europe stands on the brink of war. The US strategy is to negotiate with Russia while threatening “devastating”…

Chris Miller

Military Coup in America?

A military coup’d’etat in America? No sane person inside or outside America could have thought about that, but as a result of recent political events – particularly since the election of former…

Mohammad Ali Salih

What Putin Really Wants in Ukraine

As 2021 came to a close, Russia presented the United States with a list of demands that it said were necessary to stave off the possibility of a large-scale military conflict in Ukraine. In a draft…

Dmitri Trenin

Crowded Pond

NATO has wrestled with how to defend its Baltic member states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ever since their accession to the Alliance in 2004. All three militarily weak countries sit…

Felix K. Chang