What History Teaches Us About Putin
OPINION — As a long-time student of European history and a former SIS officer and senior executive in the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis, I have […] More
OPINION — As a long-time student of European history and a former SIS officer and senior executive in the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis, I have […] More
OPINION — “Even if the war stops, when you look at the number of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers and others who have died; and when […] More
Sonya Seunghye Lim, Former Chief of Station, CIA Sonya Seunghye Lim is a former Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency where she had […] More
Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Senior Policy Analyst at the National Search and Rescue Secretariat, Public Safety Canada. Renéo Lukic is a full professor of international […] More
Doug Wise, Former Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency Douglas H. Wise served as Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from August 2014 until August […] More
Bottom Line: As NATO members prepare for an emergency session in Brussels on Thursday, Russia is continuing a brutal campaign of destruction in Ukraine. While […] More
OPINION — “I am told that there are responsible officials in Russia that, were he [Russian President Vladimir Putin] to push a nuclear button, they […] More
OPINION — Like millions of others, I have been riveted to the unfolding tragedy in Ukraine as the world tries to make sense of this […] More
OPINION — The United States needs to publicly respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s coercive threats regarding nuclear weapons. Putin’s most recent coercive nuclear threat […] More
OPINION — Even a cyber and info war aficionado like Russian President Vladimir Putin must begrudgingly appreciate the karmic role that the slew of publicly […] More
Bottom Line: As the Russian invasion of Ukraine presses into its third week, Western leaders continue to focus on the Russian President’s state of mind […] More
OPINION — Vladimir Putin is the third modern dictator, after Napoleon and Hitler to make the mistake of invading Ukraine, albeit the first to try […] More
OPINION — China’s annual National People’s Congress (NPC) opened on March 5 with Premier Li Keqiang presenting an upbeat annual Government Work Report that stressed […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — “Nothing”, Fyodor Dostoevsky observed in Crime and Punishment, “is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand […] More
The Cipher Brief: Understanding that there is no clear view into what Russian President Vladimir Putin is really thinking – what do you think Ukraine […] More
As Cipher Brief Expert and former CIA Chief of the Central Eurasia Division, Rob Dannenberg writes for Subscriber+Members the way that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Vladimir Putin wanted this war. The “special military operation” launched in Ukraine, is just another step toward confrontation and conflict with the […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Putin has been sucked into the conquest and occupation of a hostile Ukraine; the very circumstance he has sought to avoid over […] More
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