Putin moves troops into Trump’s backyard
Clandestine US military forces are not the only foreign military troops operating in Venezuela. Russia has quietly dispatched military advisors…
How damaging could the Ukraine corruption scandal be for Zelensky?
Andriy Yermak, the cryptic aide who shadowed Volodymyr Zelensky through every phase of the war, resigned Friday after anti-corruption investigators…
Why would Putin sign Trump’s peace deal?
It was summer 2022. Ukraine had just taken back Kyiv, people were returning to the city, and the mood was…
Europe is a paper tiger
“The purpose of NATO,” Lord Hastings Ismay, the alliance’s first secretary general, once quipped, was “to keep the Americans in,…
A Trump-branded peace deal
Mount Ararat rises over Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, its peak often lost in clouds. It is the country’s national symbol, yet…
Dive bars will save the West
On the wall of a dive bar in Washington, DC, hung a poster for Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger. The bar had…
