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How to Make the Ukraine Recovery Conference a Success
As Ukraine launches its critically important military campaign to expel Russian forces from its territory, it is time also to begin an economic counteroffensive to begin building a better Ukrainian...
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Grey Zones are Green Lights – Bring Ukraine Into NATO
Despite all the good results that will emerge from the July 11-12 NATO Summit in Vilnius, there is only one issue of political salience — what will the alliance do about Ukraine’s aspirations to join?...
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The Beginning of the End of Russia’s War on Ukraine
Much is unclear in Russia since the June 23 Wagner Group mutiny against the military command began. But some things have become much clearer. For months, it has been evident that Vladimir Putin had...
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Why NATO Needs Ukraine
It is not often that NATO country leaders gather for a summit amidst a large and continuing war in Europe. Such ideas conjure images of Churchill and Roosevelt on a battleship somewhere in the North...
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Ukraine’s Valley Forge Moment
In Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776, Americans declared their independence from Britain. Only 18 months later, General George Washington, leading a somewhat rag-tag Continental Army, was enduring a tough...
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Ignore the Noise — Congress Can Still Pass Ukraine Aid
Several pieces of good news have been buried amid the overall doomsday coverage about the future of US support for Ukraine. First, the Continuing Resolution approved on September 30 separated the...
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Bringing Ukraine Into NATO Without World War III
NATO’s policy on Ukraine is inadvertently encouraging Putin to continue the war. It is time for a change. The alliance’s position thus far has affirmed that Ukraine will become a member in the long...
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My Top Three Books — Kurt Volker
Ambassador Kurt Volker is a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. A leading expert in US foreign and national security policy, he served as US Special Representative for...
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Fear Not: US Military Aid to Ukraine Is Coming
How can I be so confident? Because the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats in both Houses of Congress support it, and nobody wants to vote on this again during a Presidential election year. For...
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How Ukraine Wins
With the successful House of Representatives vote on Ukraine aid behind us, the Senate and the White House will move quickly to put the $61bn package into law. No doubt the US military has already...
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A Letter to Georgia
My Dear Georgian Friends, The world does not know you. Maybe you do not know yourselves. The image of Georgia abroad is of an under-developed, emotional, chaotic, divided, brutish, and sometimes...
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NATO at 75: Whistling Past the Graveyard
Europe is in the midst of the largest war on the continent since NATO was founded in 1949. Putin is attacking Ukraine with conventional forces and engaging in hybrid attacks against NATO itself. The...
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Ukraine Advances: How the West Can Help
Vladimir Putin has become the first Russian leader since World War II to have provoked an invasion of his own country and to have lost sovereign territory. Having previously compared himself to Peter...
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