Katernya Bondar, a CSIS senior fellow and former Ukrainian government adviser, says China has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of Russia’s war in…
Hudson Institute's Peter Rough says Russia's gray-zone attacks succeed because the West absorbs them — and that answering in kind is the only way…
The former Army officer who runs the R.T. Weatherman Foundation says no other country can give Kyiv the intelligence America does — and that…
The retired U.S. Army colonel who ran Gen. David Petraeus’s surge headquarters says Iran is gaining influence in Iraq, but that Washington's best move…
William B. Taylor, twice America's top diplomat in Kyiv, says Ukraine and Europe need to build a “Plan B” that functions without Washington.
Speaking from the Warsaw Security Forum, former Pentagon official Evelyn Farkas says the diesel deal hands Putin money and legitimacy, undercuts the sanctions Congress…
Russia escalates because it isn’t paying a high enough price, Christopher Walker argues. His fix: make Moscow pay far more for its shadow war…
Former U.S. Defense Department policy adviser Imran Bayoumi says the agreement is not “groundbreaking or new,” but could help NATO move beyond a crisis…
Sean Wiswesser says the West's response to Russian active measure in Europe has been "empty deterrence" — and Russia may test it further.
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