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Tanks Alone Won’t Turn the Tide of the War in Ukraine
The tanks will punch through the trench lines and open a path for infantry in Bradley Fighting Vehicles to hold the reclaimed territory. And the tanks send important signals t...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Will Ukraine Wind Up Making Territorial Concessions to Russia?
Andrea Kendall-Taylor: "Any settlement that involves Kyiv making territorial concessions would only perpetuate the war by emboldening Moscow to attack Ukraine again in the fut...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Robert D. Kaplan
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Forget Negotiations. Officials See Ukraine War Stretching for Months—or Years
Essentially, neither side appears ready for concessions. Putin may not even have the capability to budge — if he wants to keep his grip on power, that is. “I don’t think the w...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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‘Armageddon’ Warning Reflects Biden’s Instincts about Putin
Biden suggested that the threat was reminiscent of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, when the United States and Soviet Union came close to nuclear confrontation during the Col...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Sabotage of Gas Pipelines Were a ‘Warning Shot’ from Putin to the West, and Should Brace for More Subterfuge, Russia Experts Warn
Russia's influence over Europe's energy supply has been a constant point of concern since the Ukraine war began in late February. The EU has been scrambling to find gas suppli...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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U.S. Grapples with Risk of Nuclear War over Ukraine
If Putin does use nuclear weapons, he could seek a "demonstration effect" — perhaps by detonating a nuclear weapon over the Black Sea or in the Arctic — or deploy a smaller-yi...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Will China and Russia Stay Aligned?
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces on China and Russia, their emerging partnership, and whether this alignment will last. To complement these art...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Biden Is Still Worried About Poking the Russian Bear
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is more than 100 days old, and despite providing enough U.S. military aid during that time to nearly double Kyiv’s defense budget, the ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia claims advances in Ukraine amid fierce fighting
Russia on Tuesday claimed to have taken control of 97% of one of the two provinces that make up Ukraine’s Donbas, bringing the Kremlin closer to its goal of fully capturing th...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Hubris and isolation led Vladimir Putin to misjudge Ukraine
More than six weeks into his war against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is feeling the sting of failure. Thousands of Russian battlefield deaths. Three front-line r...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia Claims It Is Open to Peace Negotiations. Few Are Convinced.
“We don’t know what Putin understands about how the war is going, and I would be surprised if he was already willing to downsize his political objectives,” said Andrea Kendall...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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China’s Financial Foil
China’s desire to escape the shadow of the U.S. dollar and build an alternative infrastructure for global finance is being stymied by one major factor: Its reluctance to loose...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Reported Detention of Russian Spy Boss Shows Tension Over Stalled Ukraine Invasion, U.S. Officials Say
“It is hard to imagine some senior intelligence person talking with Putin and not telling Putin what he wants to hear, especially if it is a belief that is deeply held, like P...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jeffrey Edmonds
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For the U.S., a Tenuous Balance in Confronting Russia
Some American officials assert that as a matter of international law, the provision of weaponry and intelligence to the Ukrainian Army has made the United States a cobelligere...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ukraine will not halt US shift to Indo-Pacific
The war in Ukraine poses a more immediate threat, however, and some experts now insist that the West must adjust its thinking accordingly. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenb...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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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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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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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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Biden’s Own Aides Feared His Sanctions Wouldn’t Stop Putin
U.S. officials spent hundreds of hours over five months debating, crafting and then touting a punishing array of economic sanctions to try to scare Russian President Vladimir ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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When it Comes to Putin, Sanctions May Have Limits as a Tool of Coercion
When Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech to the nation Monday night, setting the stage for a new Russian military intervention in neighboring Ukraine, he chara...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor