Faced with mounting battlefield stagnation, economic pressure, and technological adaptation, time is increasingly not on Russia’s side.

Domestic and external setbacks are mounting for the Kremlin, causing longtime supporters to jump ship. Putin is not performing strength. He is managing fear.

The war between Iran and the United States has placed Russia in a classic strategic trap — a zugzwang, the chess term for a position in which every available move makes a player’s situation worse.

The instincts driving the Trump administration’s domestic policy increasingly align with its foreign-policy posture: a readiness to discard norms and constraints in the name of expediency.

President Trump’s Greenland obsession is not a show of strength. It is a self-inflicted liability: alienating a longstanding ally and, by extension, Europe, while pursuing a foreign-policy posture rooted more in impulse than strategy.

The removal of Nicolás Maduro may satisfy Washington’s appetite for decisive action, but it does not amount to regime change.

President Trump could recognize Russian land grabs and face no immediate legal consequences. Congress must change that.

If Palestinian aspirations of statehood are to become reality, they must be rooted in the hard work of institution-building, not rhetorical shortcuts.

Europe is no longer asking if war with Russia is coming. It’s asking when.

Two wars rage in two distant regions, yet both are facets of the same struggle between revisionist regimes seeking to reshape the global order and liberal democracies struggling to contain them.