Over the past year, China has made the best of Russia’s war against Ukraine, emerging as one of the conflict’s few beneficiaries. It has styled … Read the rest
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Make The Center Vital Again.
In the years following World War II, Western countries’ voters on the left and right supported liberal internationalism. They found a common cause in … Read the rest
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Ukrainian Forces In Germany
A Russian rocket attack killed at least 23 people, including two 10-year-olds, and injured dozens more civilians in the central Ukrainian city of Uman on Friday morning. … Read the rest
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Bad Advice Plaguing Beijing
The incursion in January of a Chinese spy balloon into U.S. airspace seemed to many observers like a bad miscalculation by Beijing. U.S. Secretary of … Read the rest
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Why NATO Must Admit Ukraine
On April 4, I sat at the great round table inside NATO’s headquarters in Brussels and applauded as Finland was formally admitted to the alliance. … Read the rest
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India’s Great-Power Opportunity
For China, Russia, and the West, the last year has been fear and conflict. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has killed tens of thousands, perhaps even … Read the rest
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The Global South And The Ukraine War
Similar to our article about Russia and Africa, as countries in the global South refuse to take a side in the war in Ukraine, … Read the rest
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The Coming Russia Disintegration
Russia’s poor performance on the Ukrainian battlefield, and the growing belief that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threat shouldn’t be taken at face value, have … Read the rest
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Putin’s Imperialism
The Soviet Union is commonly described in the West as the “Soviet empire”—or even the “Russian empire”—and in key respects, this was indeed the case. … Read the rest