Ukraine’s counteroffensive is increasingly aimed at ginning up greater levels of U.S. backing.

U.S. meddling in West Africa will backfire.

The rise of the Wagner Group signals a significant change in power politics.

The war in Ukraine is not an excuse for russophobic iconoclasm.

Moralism, utopianism, and denunciations of all things Russian are not the answer in the present fight.

It’s amusing to watch the Biden circus but frightening to consider that nobody’s in charge.

Maintaining rule through the use of digital manipulation threatens a government’s legitimacy.

The U.S. and Europe are the new sick men of the world.

Europeans should look to denazify Ukraine.

The drumbeat for war pounds on with virtually no official opposition.

Gorbachev inherited an empire that was ready to dissolve.