The Conversation About Ukraine Is Cracking Apart
What government officials are saying in public, and private, is fascinating—and full of contradictions. Read More Here
Tag: NATO
America’s Allies: Free Riding No More?
Pressing NATO members to increase their defense budgets and their military and economic contributions to the alliance has become a ritual of sorts in Washington. But the world is changing. Read More Here
The West Needs A Strategy To Avoid Exhaustion In Ukraine
The diplomatic challenge is not finding an appropriate intermediary but rather whether the warring parties are open to genuine intermediation and whether the “dispute is ripe,” to use the terminology of mediation. Read More Here
The End Of Nordic Neutrality
Neutrality backed by informal cooperation with NATO long served Sweden’s security interests well. But Russia’s war against Ukraine has upended old assumptions, and the resulting shift in Swedish public opinion, together with pro-NATO developments in neighbouring Finland, points to an imminent application to join the Alliance. Read More Here
Why Mediation Around Ukraine Keeps Failing
As Ukraine’s relationship with the West and with NATO has only increased in recent years, Putin has decided there is no more time to waste and is attempting to redefine the security architecture of Europe. Read More Here
The Putin Doctrine
The current crisis between Russia and Ukraine is a reckoning that has been 30 years in the making. It is about much more than Ukraine and its possible NATO membership. It is about the future of the European order crafted after the Soviet Union’s collapse. Read More Here
Ukraine Urges The West To Chill Out
As Russia continues to build up its military presence near the borders of Ukraine, U.S. officials have warned that a Russian attack on the country could be “imminent,” but officials in Ukraine have struck a starkly different tone as they seek to avoid panic and shield the country’s emerging economy. Read More Here
How Putin’s $11 Billion Pipeline Split NATO, EU At Time Of Crisis
An undersea pipeline set to deliver gas from Russia to Germany has become exactly what the two countries have always insisted it would never be: A weapon in a geopolitical crisis. Read More Here
Time For NATO To Close Its Door
The NATO alliance is ill suited to twenty-first-century Europe. This is not because Russian President Vladimir Putin says but because it suffers from a severe design flaw: extending deep into the cauldron of eastern European geopolitics, it is too large, too poorly defined, and too provocative for its own good. Read More Here
Joe Biden’s Transatlantic Bridge To The Indo-Pacific Region
Uniting allies around an affirmative agenda is at the core of the Biden administration’s grand strategy of democratic solidarity. After four years of igniting dumpster fires with “America first” chest-thumping, U.S. diplomacy arose from the ashes. Truth beats fibs, hope topples fear, and Joe Biden knows the difference between an ally and a rival. Read More […]
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