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Democrats worry Zelensky offered GOP key talking point
Others in the GOP say it’s unlikely that Republicans delve into that territory. “One never ceases to be amazed at the imagination of attack ads, but I doubt Zelensky’s clario...
By Richard Fontaine
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The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine’s cities
Such shortages, as the war enters its third week, reflect a burgeoning humanitarian crisis — one that could grow far worse for Ukrainians who now have little prospect of escap...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S. Casts a Global Net to Stop Shipments to RussiaEmily Kilcrease, director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, said that the level of allied cooperation in forging the exp...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
CEOs seek their own State DepartmentsThe current secretary of State, Antony Blinken, co-founded WestExec Advisors, where the current director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, and current White House press ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Putin thought Russia’s military could capture Kyiv in 2 days, but it still hasn’t in 20
Maria Snegovaya, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Insider that Putin was “clearly lacking good information on the ground.” But bad intelligence ...
By Maria Snegovaya
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How Kyiv’s Outgunned Defenders Have Kept Russian Forces from Capturing the Capital
“Ukraine’s main game is a game for time,” said Michael Kofman, director of Russian studies at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) in Arlington, Va. “To try to do something els...
By Michael Kofman
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The dangerous new phase of Russia’s war in Ukraine, explained
In 2014, Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine that culminated in the occupation of the Crimea peninsula in the south. Later that year, Russia deployed hybrid tactics, such a...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Over Ukraine, Lumbering Turkish-Made Drones Are an Ominous Sign for Russia“It is so perplexing, and no one is quite sure what went wrong,” said Samuel Bendett, an expert on the Russian military at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington...
By Samuel Bendett & Michael Kofman
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Ukraine War Ushers In ‘New Era’ for U.S. Abroad
The war in Ukraine has prompted the biggest rethinking of American foreign policy since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, infusing the United States with a new sense of mission and...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
The U.S. can’t stop Poland from giving Ukraine its MiGsThe fact that small Russian units have been so regularly ambushed in the early days of the war indicates they weren’t using small drones for surveillance and reconnaissance, i...
By Samuel Bendett
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Pentagon says some Russian jets are avoiding Ukraine's airspace during sorties to avoid being shot down
The skirting of Ukrainian air space suggests Russia warplanes are aware of these still considerable dangers. In an interview on Wednesday, an expert on the Russian military sa...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
The West’s Economic War Plan Against RussiaJust as Vladimir Putin blindsided the West with the fact and ferocity of his invasion of Ukraine, the West blindsided Mr. Putin with the speed and aggressiveness of its retali...
By Edward Fishman
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‘No off-ramps’: U.S. and European officials don’t see a clear endgame in Ukraine
When Russia first invaded Ukraine two weeks ago, the near-unanimous global assumption was that it would score a quick and easy military victory over its neighbor to the west. ...
By Jim Townsend
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Harris faces biggest diplomatic test as locals worry 'Putin smells Biden's fear'
It’s into this delicate mix that Vice President Kamala Harris steps on Thursday to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, wading into a...
By Carisa Nietsche
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'A rush to failure': How the Russian military started off so badly in Ukraine
The first week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine does not appear to have gone to plan. Russia's attempts at a fast-paced assault haven't brought its forces inside Kyiv, the capi...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Why Did Russia Invade Ukraine Now?
For the four months it took President Vladimir Putin to concentrate the Russian forces and firepower to launch what he thought would be a blitzkrieg into Ukraine, the world wa...
By Jim Townsend
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Intermediaries seek diplomatic opening, despite gloom about Putin’s aims in Ukraine
Some officials trying to advance talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the war are seeing positions shift ever so slightly in Moscow and Kyiv, but a huge gap remains to be b...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia's Ukraine Invasion Lifts Defense Stocks, Upends Years Of Military Austerity In Europe
As an anxious world watched Russia deploy soldiers along its border with Ukraine in January, Germany offered to send Ukrainian troops 5,000 helmets. The offer — coming from a ...
By Carisa Nietsche
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Ukrainian ambassador gets standing ovation, as Biden praises Ukraine’s strength in State of the Union
Almost as soon as his State of the Union address began on Tuesday, President Biden sought to unify the Democratic and Republican parties against Russia following its recent at...
By Richard Fontaine
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Rapid escalation of Ukraine crisis fuels fear of confrontation between Russia and the West
Russia, careening toward economic crisis under the weight of devastating Western sanctions, has put its nuclear forces on alert as the Kremlin’s siege of Ukraine intensifies. ...
By Jim Townsend