Nuclear weapons play an essential if unspoken role in the Ukraine war: they keep the conflict from spilling its borders.
The question of Ukraine’s ascension to NATO should be a matter of national interest, and while those interests are clear in the case of Europe, they are far less so for Washington.
Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s incoming defence minister, embodies a symbolic significance that transcends the battlefield and speaks to the character of the future Ukrainian state.
With his invasion of Ukraine, Putin transformed a wandering NATO in search of post-Cold War legitimacy into a vital global organization.
The collapse of the Black Sea grain removes an important force for economic and diplomatic stability, with serious potential consequences for all regional players involved.
Western portrayals of Turkiye and Azerbaijan falling in the Russia camp amid the Ukraine war are wildly inaccurate.
Global multinationals are developing a greater appreciation of the risks inherent to operating in post-conflict zones, and in doing so they could be getting ahead of more rigorous regulation to come.
Concerns mount over global food prices as Russia pulls support from a key deal.
The Kremlin’s oft-cited justification for the Ukraine war not only doesn’t hold up to logical scrutiny, but is also frequently contradicted in the regime’s own top-level narrative.
Gaining candidate status in 2022 marked a major victory for Kyiv, but the path to full EU membership remains fraught with geopolitical, economic, and political challenges.