Putin’s Russia is not the only heir to the Soviet heroics of the Second World War.

His recent rhetoric targeting Jews suggests that his grip on power may be loosening.

How the West underestimated an ideology’s animating force

But there are no Churchills, either. And Ukraine will fight alone.

In its timing, design, and execution, the Wagner chief’s threatened coup bears the hallmarks of a well-prepared operation.

The Ukrainian president isn’t the problem.

Ukrainian leaders announced one counteroffensive against Russia—but had another in the works.

Xi Jinping said his country and Putin’s Russia are friends with “no limits.” The reality is more complicated.

If this conflict is a new cold war, it’s one that the autocracies have been pursuing energetically and the democracies have been loath to accept.

Societies that scapegoat foreign powers for domestic problems erode their ability to solve those problems.