A former Ukrainian commander says that NATO, too, is not ready for Ukraine.
What’s Blocking Ukraine from NATO?
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War & Peace
Temple of Peace or Theater of Force?
What the UN’s opening days just revealed.
Russia Expands Its War
And European leaders are freaking out.
Trump’s War and the Return of the Vietnam Syndrome
What happens when American military power can get the country into a conflict faster than diplomacy can get it out?
Orphaned by Diplomacy
Children are paying for wars they didn’t start.
Hegseth’s Theology: What Would Jesus Do?
Christian nationalists are asks their followers to choose between faith and the stranger, between military might and peacemaking, between national supremacy and human solidarity.
First Principles for a New Progressive Foreign Policy
A new wave of progressive, left-wing, and socialist candidates and elected officials face an enormous challenge in articulating a foreign policy for the future. Here’s a start.
Mutual Hedging, Not Mutual Defense
When former Biden administration official Ely Ratner last year proposed a binding, NATO-style “Pacific Defense Pact” with an integrated command structure among the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines, he delivered an accidental indictment of a central...
Can BRICS Usher in Its Third “Golden Decade”?
Managing acute geopolitical flashpoints like the U.S.-Iran standoff tests the bloc’s diplomatic maturity.
Progressives Can Save Democrats’ Foreign Policy
Such a policy would put the needs of ordinary Americans before bloated Pentagon budgets and forever wars.