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Ukraine War

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After the War and After Putin: Three Potential Succession Scenarios for Russia’s Modern Tsar

THE KREMLIN FILES / COLUMN — Recent weeks have seen seismic shifts in the world’s authoritarian landscape: from the dramatic removal of Venezuela’s [...] More

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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

EXPERT OPINION – The recently leaked 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine is nothing short of an appeasement that satisfies the maximalist [...] More

Unity at the White House Sharpens Pressure on Putin

Unity at the White House Sharpens Pressure on Putin

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING -- President Donald Trump said Monday that he is moving forward with plans to arrange a meeting between Russian President [...] More

Ukraine’s Bold Invasion Raises Fears in Russia, and Questions About the War

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING - The scenes are stunning. Russian soldiers held as prisoners on Russian soil.Ukrainian soldiers tearing down Russian [...] More

How Biden’s Reversal Could Change the War in Ukraine

How Biden’s Reversal Could Change the War in Ukraine

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE – It may be President Biden’s most consequential decision about the Ukraine war since Russia’s February 2022 invasion: allowing [...] More

Will American ATACMS Help Ukraine Win the War?

Will American ATACMS Help Ukraine Win the War?

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — In late March, hunkered in his sandbag-lined compound with visiting Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, [...] More

How New U.S. Aid To Ukraine Will (and Won't) Change the War

How New U.S. Aid To Ukraine Will (and Won't) Change the War

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — Ukrainians greeted Saturday’s long-awaited House passage of $60.8 billion in aid with justifiable jubilation. For [...] More

Ukraine Digs in and Hopes For the Best in “Spring Defensive”

Ukraine Digs in and Hopes For the Best in “Spring Defensive”

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING - Ukraine is spending $800 million to build trenches and multilayered fortifications along a 600-mile front line in [...] More

Expert Reflections on the War in Ukraine, Two Years After Russia’s Invasion

Expert Reflections on the War in Ukraine, Two Years After Russia’s Invasion

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS - Two years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his armed forces to attack Ukraine. Putin called it a [...] More

The Numbers Suggest Ukraine Can Sustain the Fight

OPINION — According to recent U.S. government estimates, approximately 315,000 Russian soldiers have either been killed or wounded in the ongoing war [...] More

Washington Needs to Focus on Multiple Border Issues for Stronger U.S. National Security

OPINION — The Ukrainian Armed Forces are starting the new year running critically low on supplies. Efforts by Congressional leaders and the Biden [...] More

Want to Know if Putin will ever give up Ukraine? History offers clues.

REVIEWS / BOOKS — Two books appeared this year that offer helpful and enlightening insights into the importance of history and its perception - or [...] More