Biden needs to stop ceding the initiative to Putin
He may fear escalation, but Russia has escalated despite — or more likely because of — the Biden administration’s caution
American foreign policy
Wednesday
Tuesday
Edward Luttwak, the uncontained strategist
He is a product — and the embodiment — of twentieth-century conflict
Sunday
Republican support for Ukraine is fading
The GOP candidates aren’t all sold on more aid
Friday
Why Biden’s attempt to revive the Iran deal is faltering
Washington is quietly giving up hope on the 2015 agreement
Sunday
Welcome to the age of nuclear blackmail
In Taiwan and Ukraine, we are at the start of a perilous new era
Sunday
The right’s dangerous embrace of soft isolationism
Not only is withdrawing from the world a bad idea, it’s fundamentally un-conservative
Wednesday
Why expanding NATO is an America First idea
Finland and Sweden aren’t trying to exploit Western largesse
Thursday
2022 Biden contradicts 2001 Biden over action in Taiwan
‘Words matter,’ but only if you can remember them
Tuesday
America the busybody neighbor
Our foreign policy establishment acts like a Karen on the global stage
Monday
In search of a Biden doctrine
His self-importance and lack of strategic thinking are not a recipe for a safer world
Why Putin won’t save NATO
The West’s best hope is to rediscover a self-affirming anti-imperialism on the nationalist right
How to avoid World War Three
History can help presidents think about how to confront new challenges
Monday
Has Biden lost his mind on Ukraine?
He’s claiming the benefits of a wartime president without most of the war
Why Biden’s slip-up is so revealing
In the months to come, regime change will morph into the de facto goal
Saturday
Biden’s Warsaw speech was both baffling and moving
He ended by saying that Putin ‘cannot remain in power’
Wednesday
Madeleine Albright was an idealist overpowered by cynics
Her final judgment on Putin may well be proven correct
Tuesday
What’s the difference between Yemen and Ukraine?
We’ve been brutal towards Russia and tepid towards the Saudis. Why?
Wednesday
Did the realists underestimate Putin?
Russia’s Ukraine invasion is George W. Bush in Iraq all over again
Zelensky basks in the world’s spotlight
The Ukrainian president folds his country’s struggle for independence into the American saga
Tuesday
Yes, Putin could use biochemical weapons in Ukraine
An army barbaric enough to ignore the rules of war will not much care what horrors it inflicts
