What Erdogan is thinking about Ukraine
Turkey has emerged as a key player in the crisis — just don’t expect them to take a principled stand
Vladimir putin
Monday
Sunday
Putin will escalate
The suffering is only going to get worse — in Ukraine and in Russia too
Rise of the dimwit vodka dumpers
The virtue signalers are out in full force over Russia
Friday
Lindsey Graham unites the world
Against him, after calling for Putin’s assassination on national television
Thursday
Putin’s Stalinist playbook
The Russian leader has eschewed Lenin in favor of a more familiar figure
America’s long history of sitting out Russian invasions
From Hungary in 1956 to Czechoslovakia in 1968, we’ve often chided but rarely intervened
Pro-Ukraine citizens clash with authorities in Georgia
Public resentment could reach a boiling point in the Caucasus
Wednesday
Putin understands America’s moral decay
He and Xi Jinping think we’re weak and dissolving from within. Could they be right?
Tuesday
Putin is making the EU great again
Achieving the impossible: perhaps there’s a silver lining to this awful mess
What does Ukraine really mean for Taiwan?
There has been no serious debate over whether Taiwan, a rapidly aging society, can defend itself
Monday
Putin’s endgame is preserving ‘his’ Russia
And his invasion of Ukraine shows how far he’s willing to go to achieve it
And now the dumbest takes about Ukraine
From Bill Kristol to Nikole Hannah-Jones, Twitter’s many geopolitical strategists have been busy
Sunday
Yes, Russia could use nuclear weapons
Putin has put his nuclear forces on alert, forcing us to think the unthinkable
Biden’s confusion over sanctions
He’s cracking down on the autocratic Putin but easing up on autocratic Iran. Why?
Friday
No, China isn’t about to invade Taiwan
The idea that Putin’s incursion into Ukraine sends Beijing a signal simply doesn’t hold up
Europe’s ‘green’ transition put it at Russia’s mercy
By abandoning fracking, they didn’t give up fossil fuels; they just imported more from the east
What happened to Tough Guy Joe Biden?
As Putin shells Kyiv, the man who threatened to take Trump behind the gym is nowhere to be seen
Thursday
The stakes for Europe are even higher than in 1938
Putin’s invasion has set off a terrifying waiting game across the continent
Eating donuts in Poland as the bombs fall
A country waits on edge for more refugees from Ukraine
Let Russia choke on Ukraine
Occupying a nation can very often backfire, as the United States learned in Afghanistan