Knocking on Nato’s door
The question hanging over Westminster is how to respond if Russian attacks stray over Ukraine's western border.
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Angry and afraid, Kyiv braces for Russian attack
It will take a lot for the Russians to terrify the city's remaining residents into submission.
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The West’s previous failures may embolden Russia to use chemical weapons in Ukraine
The UK and US fear Moscow is preparing to violate a “red line”, just as its Syrian ally did last…
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Antony Blinken faces his greatest test over Ukraine
His ties to Biden and his personal history make him uniquely qualified as secretary of state as Putin wages war.
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Facebook allowing death threats against Putin isn’t the win you think
Should Big Tech be able to say who lives or dies?
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I saw Russia’s way of war in Syria. Will its devastation come to Kyiv?
All Ukrainians are wondering whether Putin will repeat the destruction here.
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What is Vladimir Putin’s way out in Ukraine?
The challenge for Ukraine and the West is to establish a peace process that encourages the Russian president to walk…
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The Ukraine war has invalidated Brexit
We can’t do sanctions, defence or energy without Europe.
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“My flight out of Moscow was full of fleeing Russians”: Felix Light leaves Russia
The Moscow-based correspondent on his decision to depart the country amid war, media clampdown and rumours of martial law.
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Security politics is energy politics, as Germany’s Greens understand
Annalena Baerbock, the foreign minister, is the most visible face of a clear stance against Russia’s aggression and in favour…
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How Russia descended into authoritarianism
As Putin cracks down on peaceful protest and free media, thousands are fleeing the country and a financial crash looms.
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Can the war save Joe Biden’s presidency?
A year of Biden in the White House hasn’t convinced Americans that he is up to the task. Will Russian…
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The poisoned peacemaker: why China can’t abandon Putin
The history of Sino-Russian relations is long and complicated, but Xi Jinping is not ready to sacrifice his relationship with…
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Switching off Russian gas could put the planet on the road to a green economy
The war in Ukraine must be the trigger for radical climate action.
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As a new Iron Curtain descends, Europe is already irreversibly changed
Short of an overthrow of Putin, we will be very far indeed from the post-Cold War vision of “Europe whole…
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John Mearsheimer and the dark origins of realism
Rage aimed at the eminent international relations scholar reflects liberal frustration over the West's limited power to prevent Russia's war…
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Has the Ukraine crisis saved Boris Johnson?
Since Russia invaded, the Prime Minister’s approval ratings have surged to levels not seen since before partygate.
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Letter from Kyiv: to keep from weeping, we start cursing
Language changes along with lived reality.
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“Stop financing the aggressor”: Ukraine’s former finance minister Natalie Jaresko on how to stop Putin
Natalie Jaresko was called in to rescue Ukraine’s finances after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Now, she says Western…
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Putin’s war is in disarray
As the conflict in Ukraine drags on, will the minimal objective of surviving in power soon become the Russian president’s…
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