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Sub-Zero: Alaska Coffee Klatch Nets Nothing for Ukraine, Plenty for Putin Aug. 19, 2025
Departing Alaska after a mega-hyped meeting with Vladimir Putin that gave the Russian dictator plent... Read More
Russian and Iranian Threats Dim in Summer Brightness Jun. 18, 2025
Way back in 1919, the poet William Butler Yeats wrote of a time when the "centre cannot hold," and "... Read More
Ukraine's Battle for the Black Sea -- And Free Europe Apr. 24, 2024
Can Ukraine defeat Russia? That's a question roiling the U.S., Canada and Free Europe. Free Europe:... Read More
Existential Risks in Ukraine May. 29, 2023
As Henry Kissinger turned 100 and Americans marked the arrival of summer with a holiday meant to mem... Read More
Peace With Vladimir Putin's Russia Is a Delusion Nov. 16, 2022
As I write this column on Nov. 15, reports are unconfirmed that missiles fired from east to west ove... Read More
Ukraine Needs Offensive Weapons -- And Needs Them Now Apr. 13, 2022
My column last week ended with this paragraph: "A half-dozen NATO nations are sending Ukraine severa... Read More
High Achievers: America's Diplomats Do Us Proud on Ukraine Apr. 12, 2022
The best line about low expectations for diplomacy belonged to Adlai Stevenson, President John F. Ke... Read More
Ukraine's Clocks: Has the Peace Clock Begun to Tick? Apr. 06, 2022
Though they "tick" at different rates, several notional clocks symbolizing intertwined military, dip... Read More
Some Americans, Just Like Russians, Don't Know They're Being Played for Fools Mar. 23, 2022
A deeper dive into the ways Russia is prosecuting its propaganda war against Ukraine reveals startli... Read More
Russia's Crimea Invasion Imperils 21st-Century Peace Mar. 20, 2019
On March 18, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin imperiled 21st-century peace among nation states... Read More
Lavrov vs. McCain: Is Russia an Enemy? Feb. 28, 2017
The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be "be alarmed by th... Read More
First Date With Russia Feb. 20, 2017
America, having spent Valentine's Day 2016 alone, was searching for a soulmate. America's been talki... Read More
The Day of the Hawk Jul. 22, 2014
The bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie was premeditated mass murder. Gadhafi was taking revenge fo... Read More
Is Obama Wrong on Ukraine? May. 06, 2014
"What Would America Fight For?" That question shouts from the cover of this week's Economist. It is... Read More
Nationalism, Not NATO, Is Our Great Ally Apr. 22, 2014
With Vladimir Putin having bloodlessly annexed Crimea and hinting that his army might cross the bord... Read More
NED's Chickens Come Home to Roost Apr. 18, 2014
When Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Empire an "evil empire," the phrase reflected his conviction th... Read More
What Would Reagan Do? Apr. 11, 2014
President Reagan was holding a meeting in the Cabinet Room on March 25, 1985, when Press Secretary L... Read More
Whose Side Is God on Now? Apr. 04, 2014
In his Kremlin defense of Russia's annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listin... Read More
Behind the Russian Rage Mar. 28, 2014
As the old saying goes, you cannot truly understand a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.... Read More
The Invader's Weakness Mar. 27, 2014
WASHINGTON — In August of 2008 at the Beijing Summer Olympics President George W. Bush had a t... Read More
