Russia has now been subjected to an isolation more sudden and total than that experienced by any major power in recent history. What that leads to may not be pretty.
By taking U.S. intervention off the table, the Biden administration may tempt just the sort of Russian escalation the world fears, especially if Putin becomes desperate.
Putin’s gambit is producing an intellectual paradigm shift, a recognition that this war may be a prelude to more devastating conflicts unless democratic states respond.
When once-good wars go bad, Americans tend to conclude that there was never anything redeeming about them in the first place.
That Navalny ended his hunger strike and his life isn’t in imminent danger — for now — doesn't remove the underlying issue.
The resumption of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh against Armenia, a longtime enemy of Turkey, indicates the war is part of a larger Turkish power play.
Competition with the Soviet Union brought out the best in American democracy.
The West consistently underestimates the Russian president's willingness to take extreme risks.
Seventy years ago the Korean War raised legitimate fears that one U.S. loss could set off communist victories across the globe.
Cracking down on an authoritarian regime, even a seemingly inconsequential one, would send a message to America's other backsliding allies.
