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But with power increasingly centralized in the Kremlin, don’t look for Moscow’s empire to fracture anytime soon.

Appalled by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine debacle, Beijing could be open to a new U.S. approach.

The dirty secret of the Russian military is that long-conquered subjects are the Kremlin’s cannon fodder.

Beijing has long lived with U.S. alliances in Asia, but a realigned India would change the game.

Whether it’s Iran, China, Cuba, or immigration, U.S. President Joe Biden often finds himself stymied by his predecessor’s foreign policy.

What do the two superpowers have in common as they woo the region? Flawed strategies.

The war in Ukraine is prompting countries from Kazakhstan to Moldova to reexamine their colonial past and seek diplomatic allies beyond the Kremlin.

The system for prosecuting war crimes is broken—but focusing on sanctions could work.

The West has a vital interest in keeping the country’s wartime economy running.

As usual, U.S. assistance pays everyone except governments actually providing services to the world’s poor.

Now, it is Russia, not China, sitting in the geopolitical driver’s seat.

The United States needs to right-size the China threat to know how to counter it.

The Kremlin is reviving the brutal methods it used in Syria, and the World Health Organization is refusing to name the crime and its perpetrator.

Egged on by the language of annihilation and extermination, Russian soldiers have become willing executioners.

Russia loses a passionate voice against injustice.

Seven thinkers weigh in on how the war will shift U.S. foreign policy.

Russia’s war in Ukraine is turning the European Union into a serious military player.

Putin’s weaponization of the Russian language has solidified Ukrainian identity and statehood.

The reasons for his anti-Western enmity stretch back over Russia’s entire history—and they will be with us for a long time.

A recent sale to the Philippines is a major win, but India faces obstacles to its big ambitions.