Trump Can Get a Deal If He Squeezes Putin, Says Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
A former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine says that it is not too late for President Donald Trump to achieve an...
Inside the Effort to Prosecute Russia’s Ukraine War Crimes
As the Trump administration stepped in to broker peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow more than a year ago, one...
Orban Lost. His Legacy Didn’t. What Will It Take to Reverse the Hungarian System?
After Viktor Orban’s defeat, Hungary is heading into a political transition that could reshape its role inside the European Union...
How the West Failed to Understand Russia
The biggest mistake the West made about Russia. Brian Whitmore, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center,...
Whitmore: West Was Fooled by ‘Theater’ of Russian Politics
In the post-Cold War era, Western policymakers misread Russia and projected their own hopes onto a state that never intended...
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