Putin supports NATO
He’s revitalizing a beneficial international community
Joseph Stalin
Cold War II and the new “new world order”
Unless we mobilize, expect no good outcome
Op-eds
Cult of the Cossack Helps Explain Ukraine’s Resistance
Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, a whole generation has grown up studying how their ancestors were starved to death on orders from Moscow.
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History explains Ukraine’s tenacious resistance to Russia
There is a saying that you can push a meek and mild Ukrainian all the way until his forehead touches the ground. Then, he arises a Cossack. With Russia’s frontal attack on Ukraine, the foreheads of 40...
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Czar wars
If Putin wins, it’s not only Ukraine that loses
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Collusion or Collision?
Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin
Monographs
Biden’s left banker
A nominee with a colorful story and ‘radical’ beliefs
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Swiss miss
Biden blew a chance for a win in his meeting with Putin
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In the Iran nuclear crisis, the IAEA stands alone
Excerpt “And how many divisions does the Pope have?” former Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin is alleged to have quipped in response to a political comment by the Vatican. Though outdated, the retort...
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Russia-Turkey Pincer Movement Threatens Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Survival
It is time the West offered robust support to the Istanbul-based Patriarchate – now being squeezed by Ankara and Moscow, both of which see it as a threat to their illiberal projects.
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Iran’s Multiethnic Society Explains Why Tehran Fears Democracy
Iran faces the democracy conundrum: in multi-ethnic states where one non-majority group prevails over others, democratization entails risk of loss of empire.
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Was Nixon Wrong About China?
It might be time to question the conventional wisdom.
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Post’ Exposé Leads 15 Banks To Reject Accounts For Pro-BDS Political Party
The MLPD was defined in the report as part of “left-wing extremism” organizations in the state.
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Prevailing in Today’s Cyber Battlefield Requires Strategic Consensus
In 1953, the United States stood at a precipice. After the death that year of Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin, senior U.S. cabin...
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The Preeminent Challenge
The biggest foreign-policy challenge before Donald Trump isn’t North Korea, where the usual pattern of diplomacy and deception persists. Nor is it Russia; it doesn’t have the mus...
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A little pivot to Central Asia
Kazakhstan is one of the ten largest countries in the world, yet most Americans couldn’t find it on a map. It spans Central Asia, home to the world’s most sophisticated civilizations...
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Russia’s disinformation offensive
Just so there’s no confusion: This column is not about Americans conspiring or colluding or coordinating with Russians. That’s a separate controversy about which I don’t have a...
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German Court: Marxist Party Cooperated with Palestinian Terrorist Entity
The extremist Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) suffered a stinging defeat in a Hamburg court on Friday which ruled that a former German deputy and a weekly Jewish paper can state the far-...
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German Banks Close Accounts For Marxist-Leninist Party With Ties To Palestinian Terrorists
The Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany announced on Thursday that the Deutsche Bank and the Postbank shut down all of the party's bank accounts in Germany. The anti-Israe...
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Came the revolution
My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...