“We have no intention of fighting Russia,” the president said.

They are ignorant of the actual history. Besides which, what’s the opposite of Munich? Vietnam. Iraq. Were those really so preferable?

World War II comparisons are a dime a dozen these days, but a different cataclysm of the 1940s is more instructive.

The ongoing conflict with Russia has internally displaced tens of thousands of people in the country. Many have struggled to integrate in their new communities but also fear returning home.

Should military conflict break out on the Ukrainian border, the administration will have to resist the cheerleaders of American intervention.

It wasn’t the drive to bring security to Europe that led to the brink of war. It was providing corrupt autocrats with secure havens for their stolen loot.

Whenever global trouble boils, our foreign policy big shots say U.S. credibility is at stake unless we act. Alas, the record shows that acting is often where the problems start.

The United States cannot afford to put a foot wrong if it wants to prevent a war in Europe.

Vladimir Putin has driven Republicans and Democrats into one another’s arms.

Legislation with bipartisan support might bring more natural gas online, further imperiling climate targets.

Republicans who condemn the inflationary impact of Biden’s proposals won’t acknowledge the much more inflationary impact of confronting Russia over Ukraine.

Yes, the Russian leader is an authoritarian aggressor. But different decisions at key points by the U.S. might have made him less so.

Largely confined to the White House due to Covid, and kept away from the press by an overprotective staff, the president broke free for almost two hours on Wednesday.

That’s what some foreign policy pundits would have us believe, as Biden and Putin spar over Russia’s mounting threats to its neighbor.

Joe Biden can’t let the U.S. get sucked into a possible Russia-Ukraine conflict. What he can do is help all sides save face.

The idea that Joe Biden squandered American credibility in the Afghan withdrawal is seductive, but it connects the wrong dots.

Biden’s upcoming meeting with the Russian president is the perfect opportunity to shrink Russia’s outsize significance in American politics.

Federal agents searched his home and seized documents, as Biden’s Justice Department charges ahead with a long-overdue investigation.

His second impeachment trial is being presented as a cut-and-dried case, in contrast to its predecessor. But the first impeachment was cut-and-dried, too.

The storming of Congress could have scary global consequences if the U.S. doesn’t act quickly to hold rioters accountable.