Escalation. Early Thursday morning local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass. He said the Russian armed forces would not attack the cities or citizens of Ukraine and that the targets were military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields and army aviation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv would sever […]
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see,” Winston Churchill once quipped. Predicating expectations of the future on an understanding...
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The defining feature of 2021 will be insularity. Countries will simply be too consumed with...
German downturn. Germany’s closely watched Ifo business confidence index fell in December for the sixth consecutive month amid COVID-19 uncertainty, supply chain bottlenecks and...
Appeal for calm. Foreign ministers from the leading industrial nations of the G-7 called on Russia to de-escalate military tensions on the border with...
For centuries, the power that controls the seas – the “World Ocean” – has successfully stymied continental rivals and dictated the rules of world trade. The...
Next week is Thanksgiving, a U.S. holiday that celebrates, and is celebrated with, food. This year, however, Americans are reckoning with rising food prices....
China and Taiwan. China has reportedly been cracking down on a surge of online speculation about a possible cross-strait conflict with Taiwan. Like many...
