Pavel Baev, EDM
The Kremlin's tactics of increasing repression and exaggerating domestic support for the war resemble strategies used during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Stalin's...
Bethany Blankley, The Center Square
Military experts argue the use of "migrant warfare" by Mexican cartels has created the border crisis, which they say is not about immigration. The warning...
Seth Cropsey, The Hill
Americans believe that they "Won the Cold War" — that is, that the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union's bid for global dominance. Washington outlasted Moscow, leading to...
James Durso, The Hill
On Feb. 18 and 19, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres convened a meeting in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the "evolving situation" in Afghanistan and future...
Armin Rosen, Tablet
For the past two decades, Gershon Hacohen has been a lonely dissenter in the highest ranks of the IDF. Unfortunately, he was proven...
Noah Smith, Asia Times
When you look at modern China, you are witnessing something stupendous - a great civilization at the peak of its relative power and effectiveness. Along a few...
Zofia Kostrzewa, ECFR
Poland's October election has been hailed by Brussels as an emphatic return to EU centre stage. But as recent ECFR polling shows, Poles are not so thrilled with how the...
Leon Aron, The Dispatch
Seeking a revanche for what its leaders consider a catastrophic national defeat, a large and powerful country invades a much smaller neighbor under the pretext of...
Antonio Graceffo, Geopolitical Monitor
The Myanmar civil war can be traced back to 1948, when the Karen National Union (KNU) emerged as the first ethnic armed organization (EAO) to deploy on...
Chietigj Bajpaee, War on the Rocks
In Moscow last December, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar praised the "exceptional" nature of Indian-Russian relationship, describing it as...
Rachel Lu, Law & Liberty
No one imagines that establishing a Palestinian state will be easy, but there is no other acceptable option.
Hudson Institute
Atlantic Council
Lauri Regan, JPost
The response to the October 7 massacre is an inflection point for Israel's - and the West's - survival. If peace is the goal,...
Zaal Anjaparidze, EDM
The upcoming parliamentary elections in Georgia will sway the country either toward Europe or closer to Russia.
Robertson & Beaver, RCD
China's inflation-adjusted military spending is at least three times larger than it was in the year 2000 and by some counts is hundreds of millions of dollars larger...