Russia’s tiny advances in 2025 sold Putin on inevitable victory in Ukraine,” Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 11.25.25. Dixon reports, “‘Russia’s slow grind in 2025 has gained it less than an additional ...

As of early October 2025, Ukrainian drone strikes were reported to have forced nearly 40% of Russia's oil refining capacity offline, with at least 70% of shutdowns directly linked to these strikes, ...

Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened secondary tariffs of 100% on any country trading with Russia if there is no deal to end the war in Ukraine within 50 days. This proposal ...

The latest of the Levada Center’s polls on Russians’ attitudes toward foreign countries reaffirms the proposition that whatever major foreign policy decision Vladimir Putin makes, most of his ...

This view could be one reason why top European allies lined up with Zelenskyy on Nov. 21 in rejecting some of the key elements of the proposal, according to Bloomberg. The leaders of France, Germany ...

The election of U.S. President Donald Trump changed U.S. policy toward Ukraine from “as long as it takes” to seeking a negotiated peace settlement. These negotiations will be driven by the battlefield ...

Russia: +27,124 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire combined). 1 Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia ...

Kellogg served 36 years in the U.S. military, including periods in the U.S. Army Special Forces in Vietnam and Cambodia, and in the 82 nd Airborne Division in the First and Second Iraq Wars. Following ...

When Donald Trump’s team announced Nov. 13 that it plans to appoint Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as the next Secretary of State, few were surprised or bewildered like, for instance, when Matt Gaetz was ...

Russia’s decisive turn toward China—politically, economically and technologically—has been among the most notable geopolitical consequences of President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.

The Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security host a public fireside chat discussing climate change as a “threat multiplier” faced by the US defense ...