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Putin’s real long game
A little over a year ago, on a pleasant late fall evening, I was sitting on my front porch with a friend best described as a Ukrainian freedom fighter. He was smoking a cigarette while we watched...
View ArticleTrump’s plan to fight ISIL with Putin isn’t just futile. It’s dangerous
America and Russia fighting on the same side against ISIL: This is the radical realignment that U.S. President Donald Trump has been dangling as the linchpin of his promised reboot of the global war on...
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What did Putin know and when did he know it?
As U.S. Tomahawk missiles soared over the Mediterranean toward Syria’s al-Shayrat airbase, speculation was already flying about how the attack would affect the thaw in U.S.-Russia relations anticipated...
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Russia’s latest victim in Ukraine — reform
Last month, activists and students barricaded the doors of the central Kiev branch of Sberbank, a Russian state-owned bank. The message: Stop the Kremlin from using profits made in Ukraine to fund its...
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Forget Comey. The real story is Russia’s war on America
It was a breezy, surprisingly pleasant summer week in Washington as the frenzy around potential Trump-Russia revelations reached near-carnival levels. On Thursday, brightly clad groups scattered across...
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Trump handed Putin a stunning victory
President Donald Trump needed to accomplish two things this week during his visits to Poland and the G20 Summit in Hamburg. First, he needed to reassure America’s allies that he was committed to...
View ArticleThe Gerasimov Doctrine
Lately, Russia appears to be coming at the United States from all kinds of contradictory angles. Russian bots amplified Donald Trump during the campaign, but in office, Kremlin-backed media portray him...
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How Twitter bots and Trump fans made #ReleaseTheMemo go viral
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday morning — the day after the House intelligence committee voted along partisan lines to send Representative Devin Nunes’ memo, alleging abuses of the Foreign Intelligence...
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‘They will die in Tallinn’: Estonia girds for war with Russia
TALLIN — Pretty much no one in the Western alliance is looking forward to the next few days. NATO heads of state are due to meet Wednesday in Brussels beneath the disinterested gaze of President Donald...
View ArticlePutin’s attack on the US is new Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise conventional attack against the U.S. Pacific Fleet moored at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese operation was part of a larger strategy:...
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