‘Trump 2028’ Is No Joke
From the earliest days of his rule, Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a regular practice of purging senior members of his country’s military hierarchy. He has invoked corruption in ...
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Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression
A few weeks ago, prominent Russian opposition leaders in exile made a startling plea to the Canadian government: Please accept hundreds of asylum-seekers currently detained in the United States before ...
Cameroon’s Predictable Election Will Produce Unpredictable Chaos
On Oct. 12, citizens of Cameroon, a Central African country with a population of 30 million, will vote in a presidential election. Irregularities have already marred the process, including the ...
Europe Should Support U.S. Democracy
The Trump administration is dismantling the pillars of the United States’ democracy. Europe, whose own democracies are facing internal challenges and external threats, has seen this playbook before. Its leaders ...
Europe Should Support Moldova Against Russian Meddling
Moldova’s pro-Western governing party gained a clear parliamentary majority in this weekend’s elections, choosing European alignment amid “unprecedented pressure, disinformation, and interference from the Kremlin.” Although the results advance Moldova’s ...
‘Strong Roots’ Turns Cooking Into Resistance
Why do Russians do the things they do? Why, specifically, do they commit atrocities and reject democracy? It’s a question pondered by many terrific thinkers, writers, activists, analysts, diplomats, and ...
The West Is Losing Georgia to Russia, Zourabichvili Says
Georgian politician Salome Zourabichvili has been among the vanguard pushing for the country to swing back toward its formerly Western direction and away from Russian and Chinese influence. It hasn’t ...
Starmer Is the Dog Who Caught the Car
Is Britain becoming like Italy? Or Belgium? The comparison might be unfair to those two nations. Since Brexit, the United Kingdom has become a leader in Europe in terms of ...
Zelensky Is Losing Touch With Reality
KYIV—In the course of the last month, Ukraine’s government pushed two significant measures related to one of its most glaring weaknesses: its strained armed forces. Yet the moves landed awkwardly ...
Are We Overestimating Autocracies?
Leading military analysts predicted that Russia would easily roll over Ukraine in February 2022. They also forecast that any strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to devastating retaliation and ...
