Andrew Latham is a Senior Washington Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy and a professor of international relations and political theory at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN. You can follow him on X: @aalatham.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – Post-Cold War NATO expansion, which pushed a US-led military alliance to Russia’s borders, was a predictable and avoidable provocation that made...
Key Points – Further economic sanctions against Russia are a failed strategy, representing Western “political exhaustion masquerading as resolve” rather than a path to...
Key Points – The United States, under President Donald Trump, is perceptibly stepping back from its previous level of unconditional support for Ukraine, driven...
Key Points – Russia’s lack of large-scale retaliation to recent audacious Ukrainian drone strikes deep within its territory does not signify weakness or fear,...
Key Points – Ukraine’s recent “Operation Spiderweb” drone strikes deep into Russia, targeting strategic bomber bases, are characterized as “pure theatre” and strategically meaningless...