The response of the world to the Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine has been to increase the flow of military equipment to the Ukrainian forces, thereby assuring the continuation of hostilities, and to impose absolutely draconian sanctions on Russia. Sanctions have been the preferred mode of operation in this crisis by the U.S. and NATO, since they are not prepared to engage militarily for fear of pushing the conflict to the nuclear threshold. But sanctions have their own “deadly force” and their own “collateral damage.”

Perhaps the bird we should strive to be is neither hawk nor dove, but the American Eagle depicted on our great seal.

Narrowing space for diplomatic dialogue during such a dangerous crisis seems unwise

Washington’s most fundamental duty is to Americans, not Ukrainians.

The deep and actionable lesson we take away from Ukraine must be to settle disputes before they become great power wars and humanitarian catastrophes.

President Biden and the foreign policy uniparty are restoring the strategic condition Washington feared in 1940.

It should be easy to find out what really happened to the massacred civilians in the Ukrainian town

The West has made a snap judgment about who is responsible for the massacre at the Ukrainian town of Bucha with calls for more stringent sanctions on Russia, but the question of guilt is far from decided, writes Joe Lauria.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered anger, vitriol, and bigotry in the United States and much of the democratic West. It is an atmosphere of intolerance that surpasses the immediate post-9-11 period (especially the lead-up to the Iraq War) and even the height of McCarthyism in the early and mid-1950s.

Lost in the clouds of combat we forget how the violence in otherwise peaceful Ukraine came about. The spark that lit the fire was struck in Kiev’s central square, the Maidan.