Biden Changes the Russia Equation
President Joe Biden’s tough position on Russia risks exacerbating further the split within NATO countries over how tough to be on the Kremlin.
President Joe Biden’s tough position on Russia risks exacerbating further the split within NATO countries over how tough to be on the Kremlin.
If President Biden is serious about containing Russia through reinvigorating NATO, he will need Turkey’s geopolitical standing as well as its military and political clout.
The imposition of US sanctions on Turkey earlier in the week is creating more cracks for Russian President Vladimir Putin to exploit.
Under the malign neglect of the Trump presidency, Vladimir Putin has crafted for himself a unique window of opportunity within which to instigate violence in the Balkans.
It’s not Washington and Lincoln who Trump imagines himself in the footsteps of — it’s Xi and Putin.
After a controversial vote on constitutional amendments, Russian President Vladimir Putin has reset his presidential terms but risks losing legitimacy.
Despite the sudden economic downturn and a global health crisis, Vladimir Putin is likely to remain in power and secure his position in Russian politics until 2036.
As the Idlib truce continues to hold, Vladimir Putin reinforces Russia’s dominant role in Syria.
The fates of the United States and Russia are inextricably linked to the authoritarian narcissism of their two leaders.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin can’t simply retire: Too much power is concentrated in his hands to just leave it all behind.
After the collapse of the USSR, Russia, abandoning socialism as a path of development, also abandoned communist ideas, but didn’t replace them with new ideology.
It is Vladimir Putin who can take the greatest pleasure from America’s latest debacle in the Middle East.
The deterioration of relations comes at a time when Vladimir Putin hopes to breathe new life into the supranational entity of a Union State.