Twenty Questions (and Expert Answers) about What’s Happening with Ukraine and Russia
Q and A session with Atlantic Council Experts Continue reading
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NATO allies fear Putin’s Belarus military build-up will be permanent
he Russian deployment to Belarus is ostensibly for military exercises that are scheduled to run until February 20. But they are being deployed menacingly close the Belarusian-Ukrainian border at a time when Russia continues to concentrate more than 100,000 troops near its own border with Ukraine and in the annexed Crimean peninsula. Meanwhile, the Russian Navy is conducting live fire exercises in the Black Sea near Ukraine’s coast. Continue reading
Global Strategy 2022: Thwarting Kremlin Aggression Today for Constructive Relations Tomorrow
A peaceful, prosperous Russia is a distinct possibility if we approach US policy realistically, and that starts with a clear-eyed look at the global system and Russia today. Continue reading
Putin’s Road From Munich
In a fiery speech to the Munich Security Conference fifteen years ago, Vladimir Putin harshly denounced the United States, fiercely criticized NATO enlargement, and called for a new security order in Europe. We still feel the effects today. Continue reading
BBC World News with Sally Nugent – September 2021
Brian Whitmore speaks with Sally Nugent Jones from BBC about the the political theatre that is Russian elections. Continue reading
The View From Ukraine
More than 100,000 Russian troops continue to encircle Ukraine and as Moscow begins shipping supplies of blood and plasma to the front, war fears are very much in the air. Continue reading
While the world watches Ukraine, Putin is quietly occupying Belarus
Russian troops continue to pour into Belarus, with many taking up positions along the country’s 1000km southern border with Ukraine. Continue reading
Putin’s War At Home
As Vladimir Putin continues his brinkmanship, how much popular and elite support does he really have to start a war? Do Russians have any idea what is coming if he does? And how might they react? Continue reading
Belarus joins Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine and the West
If Russia proceeds with its threatened invasion of Ukraine, it is increasingly clear that Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s autocratic regime in neighboring Belarus will also need to be viewed as a full combatant in the war. Continue reading
The Gathering Storm
Brian Whitmore speaks with defense analyst Michael Kofman of the CNA Corporation about what a Russian re-invasion of Ukraine might look like Continue reading