Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem, via Barron’s: Ukraine’s spectacular attacks on Russia’s strategic air fleet on June 1 was a triumph of intelligence capacity. Ukraine is now winning the shadow war with Russia. If Europe and the U.S. support it by actively applying pressure to Russia, Russia may soon be forced to return to […]
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Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem via The Wall Street Journal: Critics and fans alike treat President Trump’s Russia policy as revolutionary: His outreach to Moscow despite Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine is either a betrayal of American values or a cold-blooded, brilliant attempt at geopolitical realignment against China. In reality,
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The Institute of World Politics (IWP) recently hosted a panel concerning the Russia-Ukraine War, which was covered by C-SPAN2. Topics included the risks of negotiating with Russia, Russian propaganda about the war, and what to expect amid reports of a possible temporary ceasefire. It featured IWP Professor Glen Corn and
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Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi’s Dec. 7 visit to Moscow demonstrates the solidification of their new axis. The twin Eurasian rimland wars in Ukraine and Israel are coalescing; congressional stasis over Ukraine aid, therefore, raises the odds of an even broader Eurasian war in the next 36 months. Iran, Russia and China are the
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With the Middle East primed for a conflagration, American policy-makers must recognize two realities. First, the United States is embroiled in a major Eurasian rimland war, one that must be fought and won to preserve American power. Second, the benefits of fighting forward — and fighting limited small wars rather than
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There are three possible objectives in a war of conquest: assimilation, imposition, and accommodation. The first was demonstrated by the Holy Roman Empire as it sought to tie its origins to the Hungarian state which, following centuries of Habsburg supervision, became formally absorbed by the Austrian Empire in 1867 as
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In the cascade of epochal events that have battered the foundations of our post-Cold War world in recent years, the phrase “turning point” has become cliché. From Putin’s snatching of Crimea in 2014 to Obama’s near-criminal Iran deal in 2015, ISIS and the Syrian butchery, Brexit and Trump, China’s rise
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The world was treated to a first-class show this past weekend. It had it all: a breathtaking plot; a top box-office protagonist in Prigozhin; the ultimate villain in Putin; fast-paced, real-time, edge-of-your-seat drama; and a sudden, unexpected denouement. No wonder that mentions of “pass the popcorn” were all over Twitter
As the dust settles from a volatile two days in Russia, it is worth taking stock of the initial implications that the Prigozhin Putsch has for the Ukraine War. Much remains unknown about the putsch, but there are three clear implications: Russia’s Vladimir Putin looks to have set aside a relationship
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In the early hours of June 6, the Kakhovka Dam burst. The most probable culprit is Russia, given its control over the dam throughout the occupation of right-bank Kherson Oblast. The incident will have significant, tragic humanitarian effects. But as a matter of warfare, it illustrates how badly off-balance Russian forces are
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