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Advancing the Three Seas Initiative matters now more than ever. Unambiguously, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine underscores the elevated importance of the initiative for the United States and its allies in Europe.   The initiative was launched in 2016 to promote practical, multilateral economic links. The project now groups 12 member countries located around the…

Moscow announced Friday it would begin massive nuclear drills over the weekend that will entail practice launches of its intercontinental ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. While it’s not out of the ordinary for a nuclear power to rehearse its nuclear forces, this is no ordinary exercise. It comes at a time when Russia has more…

One way of understanding the 2009-2014 Obama administration policy of “reset” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is to recall two iconic incidents. The first was the 2009 “reset.” Then-newly appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she would pursue a “reset” détente with Russia. America would relax the prior Bush administration’s mild ostracism of Russia…

In 1977, Jimmy Carter went to the University of Notre Dame and told America that we were beset by “an inordinate fear of communism.” By the end of his presidency, as Soviet tanks rolled through Afghanistan and Cuban proxies ravaged Africa, Carter said he was wrong and immediately put into production the B-1 bomber, the Abrams tank, and the…

If asked, most Americans probably believe the U.S. and Russia are pretty evenly matched on nuclear weapons due to arms control treaties such as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty—aka New START. That’s not exactly correct. Indeed, with Russia threatening a large-scale invasion of Ukraine at any moment, now is a good time to take…

More than one year after the 2020 cease-fire agreement that brought the Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia to an end, tensions remain high between the two.  Just like the 1994 cease-fire that brought the first round of fighting to an end, Russia also brokered this cease-fire, and in so doing has dramatically expanded…

Even though the U.S. is one of eight Arctic nations, America has not adequately invested in the region and, as a result, has not yet fully embraced its status as an Arctic power. The opposite can be said of Russia, an Arctic nation that has invested heavily in the region. Russia recently installed a fiber…

The United States and its NATO allies have ceded the geopolitical advantage to Russia for many years now. Two examples of this would be Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008 and Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. But the time is now ripe to seize the advantage back, and the joint Russia-Belarus Zapad-2021 military…

The United States and Russia on Wednesday will hold the first round of a Strategic Stability Dialogue in Geneva. Talks of this type will be the first in about a year—and the first for the Biden administration. The meeting will focus on reducing the risk of nuclear war and on arms control. How the United…

President Joe Biden recognized the U.S. Coast Guard’s crucial presence in the Arctic Ocean during his address to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduating cadets in New London, Connecticut, on May 19. But it will take more than words to compete against China and Russia in the Arctic Circle. The U.S. has been an Arctic…

Is Joe Biden a Russian asset? After reading this tale of three pipelines, that unhappy ending will be hard to avoid. First, on Jan. 20, Biden’s first afternoon as president, he ditched the Trump-approved Keystone XL pipeline. Some 11,000 high-paying jobs, many unionized, vanished. While these suddenly unemployed Americans sulked, Russian President Vladimir Putin cheered….

It’s been less than two weeks since a criminal cybergang group known as DarkSide succeeding in shutting down a pipeline that transports 45% of the United State’s gas and fuel supply along the East Coast, causing severe outages from Georgia to Virginia. While Colonial Pipeline slowly resumed operation last week, service will likely be impacted…

Last June, the Trump-hating reporters who always wanted to underline that then-President Donald Trump was almost traitorously soft on Russia banged a can about a New York Times story headlined “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.” Now the liberal Daily Beast website is offering a jaw-dropping assessment: “It was…

Over the past few weeks, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s health has been deteriorating. Navalny’s condition began with back pain and numbness in his legs, but it has worsened to include a severe cough, fever, two herniated discs, and diminishing feeling in both hands. Navalny is currently incarcerated at the Pokrov penal colony, about 60 miles…

Russian citizens are protesting the imprisonment of Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader and anti-corruption activist. Navalny was arrested and jailed Jan. 17, accused of violating his parole conditions from a false conviction for embezzlement and money laundering. He was unable to fulfill these conditions due to the fact that he had been recovering from poisoning…

Alexei Navalny returned to Russia from Germany on Jan. 17 and was arrested at the airport upon arrival. Navalny, a leading Russian political opposition figure, had been recovering in Germany since late August, when he was poisoned with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent, in Tomsk, Russia, in an assassination attempt. The reason for his return…

News reports on Wednesday out of Germany indicate that prominent Russian political opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who recently became ill in Russia, may have been poisoned with the Russian military-grade nerve agent infamously known as “Novichok.” If true, it’s no surprise, considering long-standing international concerns about Russia and chemical weapons. As you recall, about two…