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Alexander J. Motyl, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
Russia’s prime-time “60 Minutes” program congratulated Melania Trump on her husband’s electoral victory by displaying on air a handful of nude...
Things may change if he and his colleagues decide to abandon attempts to centralize power in his hands or if America’s democratic institutions prove...
No one wants World War III, of course. But, ironically, the policymakers and pundits who say they want it least are those most likely to start it.
Like all revolutionaries, President Trump will quickly come to face what the German American political scientist Otto Kirchheimer called “confining...
Shame on Antonio Guterres.
Are Western policymakers ignorant? Of course not. Their problem is different.
WarGonzo’s Oct. 5 Telegram posting is especially interesting in what it reveals about real Russian attitudes toward the Ukraine war.
As the Russian economy tanks, immiseration and social discontent grow, and money dries up, Putin won’t have the resources to fuel his war machine.
I can think of no country, in the West or elsewhere, that actively aspires to Russia’s break up.
Putin has no one to blame for the shameful state of affairs but himself.
As a closer look at Trump’s rhetoric shows, it’s clear that he feels threatened by Zelensky, whom he has called "the greatest salesman in...
The task before Russian liberals who want to transform their country into a decent society may be impossible.
Ukrainians are no longer a ragtag bunch of people thrown together by fate.
Xi Jinping may be reluctant to exercise China’s right to reclaim its historically Chinese territories today, but he must know — as does Putin —...
Two recently posted letters, by two courageous young women, convey the extent of human suffering that Vladimir Putin has caused, the resilience of the...
Thanks to black swans, theories never die.
The 53-year-old Zakrevsky is no liberal and no good guy.
Not only is there no end to historical arguments — for the simple reason that no historical interpretation of anything can ever be final — but...
The West’s greatest sin regarding today’s Russia is to have failed to see Moscow as it truly was and look beyond it, at Russia’s neighbors.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's "goulash dictatorship" has been compared to the more open and prosperous regime of Janos Kadar, but his...
A failure on the battlefield, Putin proved to be able to outwit the West at the negotiating table.
We generally eschew discussions of God in policy debates, but Trump’s alliance with the Almighty makes such a discussion imperative.
Both sides will ask: How much of which land for what kind of peace?
Russia’s war against Ukraine has little to do with its putative NATO membership at some undetermined future time.
Can one speak to a barbarian? Can one negotiate with a savage who violates all moral codes and is committed to rampant destruction?
A little-known independent Ukrainian media outfit named Texty.org.ua has recently come under attack by prominent American conservatives.
Russians are increasingly unwilling to serve and are thereby depressing supply, while the manpower deficit on the battlefield is growing and is...
Russia's slide towards fascism is evident in the existence of radical youth organizations like the Brotherhood of Academists, the demonization of "the...
Putin’s Russia rests on an unsustainable contradiction.
Prosecutors who secured a guilty verdict against Hunter Biden on three felony counts related to the illegal purchase of a firearm in 2018 will speak...
With some 800 years of violence from inside and from outside, it’s no wonder that violence has become woven into the institutional and cultural...
Given Trump’s unpredictability, we have no way of knowing whether his threats to bomb Moscow and Beijing should be taken seriously.
Russia's goal is no longer to intimidate Kharkivites, but to turn them and their city into human ashes and heaps of bricks.
Mafia-like old boy networks aren’t known for innovative thinking and problem solving.
Putin has destroyed his army, lost Ukraine, strengthened NATO, diminished Russia’s security, transformed Russia into an abject vassal of China and...
Because of its wishful denial of the possibility of Russia’s defeat, the West now confronts the possibility of a Ukrainian defeat, with all the...
The ubiquity of Russian spies also raises questions about certain Western policymakers and analysts and their putative relations with Russian...
Seen through the decolonization lens, Ukraine closely resembles the colonies that rebelled against European political domination by resorting to...
It looks like defeating Russia and risking its peaceful dismemberment may be preferable to Armageddon.
The intellectual roots of the West’s mistakes predate the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Ukrainians are asking an indelicate question.
The junior senator from Ohio would be well advised to do some homework before expressing his opinions on a topic he obviously doesn’t fully...
American policymakers are placing their own personal ambitions above the physical survival of 40 million people and the likelihood that Putin will...
Millions will get a rare look at the total solar eclipse on Monday as parts of North America will go dark for the first time in seven years. The rare...
NATO countries talk about the Russian threat, but their dilly-dallying, their insufficient support of Ukraine and their unwillingness to impose truly...
Russian Orthodoxy has become a central component of the Kremlin’s propaganda.
There is no easy answer to the problem of Russian imperialism.
Putin would have been far better off retiring to his bunkers and leaving the Russian mess to someone else.
Putin has little other than coercion to rely on to elicit societal compliance.
Putin’s Russia is somewhere between full-fledged fascist and full-fledged Nazi, probably closer to the latter than to the former.