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Biden Commits US to War for Taiwan Sep. 23, 2022
If China invades Taiwan to unify it with the mainland, the United States will go to war to defend Ta... Read More
Putin's Narrowing Options Sep. 16, 2022
A desperate Vladimir Putin is a dangerous Vladimir Putin, and there are signs Putin's situation in U... Read More
On Ukraine and on Welfare, Morale Trumps Materiel Sep. 16, 2022
Morale matters more than materiel. Again and again, experts' predictions, based on readily quantifi... Read More
Yankee Ingenuity: Ukraine's Powerful Weapon Sep. 13, 2022
Authoritarians control their flock with flattery about their inborn goodness and fear-mongering abou... Read More
Biden's Strategy For Ukraine: Don't Win Sep. 06, 2022
For more than six months, the Biden administration has claimed a policy of "saving" Ukraine from the... Read More
The US Played Gorbachev for a Fool Sep. 02, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who died this week, was a member of that trib... Read More
Winners and Losers From the Ukraine War Aug. 30, 2022
"There never was a good war or a bad peace," wrote Ben Franklin at the end of the American Revolutio... Read More
Putin's Dirty War, Geopolitical Adjustments and Prospects for Future Wars, Part IV Aug. 27, 2022
U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS If we think of the 1970s U.S.-China rapprochement as a video, it began to play ... Read More
Ukraine Embarrasses America Aug. 26, 2022
As backdrop to this column, remember that, as of 2018, around 7% of Americans were military veterans... Read More
The Noose Tightens Aug. 25, 2022
WASHINGTON — Back in the days when George H.W. Bush resided in the White House, he told me rat... Read More
Putin's Dirty War, Geopolitical Adjustments and Prospects for Future Wars, Part III Aug. 20, 2022
This is part three of a six-part column that examines global geopolitical readjustments since 2019 a... Read More
The Russians and the Extremists Aug. 19, 2022
Since former President Donald Trump's election in 2016, the media has breathlessly reported that Rus... Read More
President Vladimir Putin on Horseback Aug. 18, 2022
WASHINGTON — We have not seen the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, riding around the Russian... Read More
Volunteers in Ukraine Aug. 17, 2022
When Russia attacked Ukraine, "experts" said the country would fall within days. It hasn't. One r... Read More
Putin's Dirty War, Geopolitical Adjustments and Prospects for Future Wars, Part II Aug. 13, 2022
An examination of maps of Europe and Eurasia helps to understand Russia's geopolitical paranoia and ... Read More
In Actual Russia, No Sign of Sanctions Aug. 12, 2022
It's time to get real. It's been time to get real. Russia has won its war against Ukraine. This ou... Read More
On Taiwan, China Is Hurting Its Own Cause Aug. 10, 2022
The Chinese government is mad about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. Really mad. It fir... Read More
Putin's Dirty War, Geopolitical Adjustments and Prospects for Future Wars, Part I Aug. 06, 2022
Back in March 2020, I commented on the possibility of new civil wars and international armed conflic... Read More
The West's Long-Lasting Enemies Cannot Be Cajoled Aug. 05, 2022
Revisionist powers, nations whose leaders seek to undermine American leadership in the world, seem t... Read More
Greetings from Russia Aug. 05, 2022
I'm interested in stories that go uncovered and undercovered. Fewer stories are less obscured today ... Read More
