Mark Episkopos

Mark Episkopos is a Eurasia Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also an Adjunct Professor of History at Marymount University. Episkopos holds a PhD in history from American University and a masters degree in international affairs from Boston University.

The SR-91 Aurora, a rumored hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft, has captivated aviation enthusiasts for decades, despite a lack of concrete evidence supporting its existence. The idea of the Aurora emerged in the 1980s as a potential successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, with alleged capabilities of reaching speeds up to Mach 5.

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.

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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.