Europe Needs a New Great Power

Europe needs a new Great Power

All through European history, the intervals of peace, during which reconstruction and progress overcame the ravages of war, were secured by a temporary equilibrium between the Great Powers of the day. It is obvious that there was no such equilibrium on 23 February 2022, when Russian columns started rolling towards Kyiv, and Russian President Vladimir Putin had just described Ukraine not merely as Russian, but as the homeland of the very first Rus

Dear President Putin, There Is No Possibility of a Great Power Agreement

Dear President Putin, There Is No Possibility of a Great Power Agreement Foreign Affairs, May 23, 2025 Make Moscow Pay The Case for Seizing Russian Assets to Fund Ukraine’s Defense Russian foreign affairs commentators such as  Fyodor Lukyanov are dreamers who have no idea of what is afoot: https://www.rt.com/russia/617970-lukyanov-trump-russia-ukraine/  Lukyanov should read what Trump policymakers are saying and stop reading tea leaves.