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With a decisive deal with Putin out of the question, the only way to create a lasting peace is to recreate some fundamental dynamics of the Cold War.

OH dear, it seems David Pratt has been drinking deeply of the Pentagon Kool-Aid. It’s the same old rhetoric and the same old tropes (It’s not…

Read how EU sanctions can wreak havoc on Russia's economy if the Union can figure out an effective tool to implement them.

Heavy fighting continues along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This is but the latest round of high-intensity conflict between the neighboring nations. The last one, the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, was a game-changer in Azerbaijan’s favor.

Fighting has broken out in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, a landlocked area between Europe and Asia that is claimed by both countries.

Several important developments have taken place recently in Azerbaijan-Armenia relations. The first was a meeting on Dec. 14 of last year between President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia, facilitated by European Council President Charles Michel. This was the very first meeting in three decades between Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders

With what you hear from berlin and maybe from some other western capitals too? i am realistic and an optimist, so i cannot be disappointed. i am trying to find out new arguments for our colleagues in berlin, because berlin and paris, its members of the normandy format, and theyre trying to do their best in minsk process and normandy process. so, i will not criticise official berlin. i will hope that they will understood, or understand, sorry, what is going on in reality. now, minister, you are a...

The germans said that? im sure its time because next, er, news in bbc, for example, will be the russian submarine in the baltic sea near the nord stream pipeline. for example, like they do it in black sea or azov sea, and it will be the challenge for baltic countries. so, i think that its time, and its time not today, it was yesterday. are you disappointed, are you disappointed with what you hear from berlin and maybe from some other western capitals too? i am realistic and an optimist, so i can...

They find that status quo moving against them in ukraine. taiwan, the chinese are not -- they can much more easily afford to be patient. also, unlike on ukraine where the americans have explicitly said that were not going to defend them, every message that the chinese are getting on taiwan is that the united states is building stronger focus. indeed, if anyone had a green light it was putin because the americans are increasingly saying china is the top concern, we are building the defense pac, w...

Everything which was done already can be done, maybe something more, maybe, but we are reaching a point where the decision has to be made. is there any way that ukraine could give any sort of assurance to moscow on future membership of nato? because as things stand it is hard to see how ukraine does become a member of nato in the immediate future. russia brings so many different realities brought to the table at the same time. they talk about their vulnerability, and ukrainians possible membersh...