Mark Episkopos

Putin's aces — non-Western countries unaligned with the US — are also preventing him from upping the ante. Here's why.

Kiev is caught in the cleft stick of managing Western perceptions and running a war on the ground.

Ukraine, like any belligerent nation that finds itself heavily dependent on external forces, is waging two wars: the actual, corporeal war against

Former US official says that talks 'fell apart' after Kyiv was counseled about Russian conditions that would 'neuter' Ukraine

Relitigating these details two years later cannot be dismissed as an exercise in political archeology. More than two years later, the war drags on with no end in sight.

A Zelensky stop in a Pennsylvania ammo factory came close to looking like a campaign stop for others

The Kremlin’s threshold for engaging in escalation is not contingent on any specific Western action.

The late Christopher Hitchens’s work was of a piece, good and bad.

But first we must reject the shibboleths and superstitions that have come to define this conflict

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