Western powers should overcome the counterproductive incrementalism and hesitation with which they sanction and deter adversaries and arm and assist friends. The Munich Security Conference, an annual event that brings together world leaders to discuss major security problems, adjourned last month. Indicative of today’s fraught and severe threat environment, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose people...
Ukrainian children paint shell casings for the local 'Museum of Memory' during an art action in Bucha on June 30, 2023. Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP Since the heady post-Cold War years, when many in the Free World were sure that the global tide was moving less toward dictatorship and extremism, and more toward freedom and...
Image: Mohammed Bash / Shutterstock.com. If we remain on the current course, future historians are likely to record the slaughter of innocent Syrians, and the resulting harm done to America’s national interests and moral standing, as a shameful failure of U.S. leadership and one of the darker chapters in our history. —Senators John McCain, Joe...
