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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
Pro-Russian separatists from the Chechen “Death” battalion walk during a training exercise in the territory controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, eastern Ukraine, December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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
Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Joe Biden meet for talks at the Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16, 2021. (TNS)

Can Putin Shift Into Legacy Rethink?

Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is there can be no instant…

Martin Schram

Moscow’s Nuclear Enigma

Talk to anybody in Washington and you will hear an ominous mantra: the Russians are back. A resurgent Moscow is sowing discord among Western states and trying to re-establish its sphere of influence…

Olga Oliker
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