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The West has already frozen some $300 billion in Russian assets. Here’s the case for seizing them.

Ukrainians and the world’s democratic powers must work toward the only acceptable endgame.

American weapons are important, but Ukrainian drones have changed everything.

Trump does not do “policy” as Washington understands that term. His approach is personal, transactional, ad hoc, and episodic.

Not by choice, but by force.

Moldova’s president has high hopes. Putin has other ideas.

Unelected bureaucrats get a bad rap. But some do an essential job.

Putin’s blackmail is dangerous; its success would be even worse.