“If this was an accident, the instinct in Warsaw and Washington will be caution and restraint, with Article 4 discussions signaling the Russians not to screw up again,” Cipher Brief Expert and former Acting Director of CIA John McLaughlin told us.

Everyone knows what Article 5 means.

Alliance head Jens Stoltenberg says canceling the games would send the “wrong signal”

Let’s start with Pipelineistan. Nearly seven years ago, I showed how Syria was the ultimate Pipelineistan war.

The reaction to his application for accelerated membership was muted, exposing the limits of the West’s military involvement in this war.

If the West caves to Zelensky’s demands, this winter could go from cold to nuclear.

While it’s fine to condemn Putin’s invasion, it is disingenuous to play down the role of Western provocations

In 2008, William Burns, who is now Biden’s director of the CIA but was then ambassador to Russia, warned that “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin).” He warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that “I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”

Some think it’s time for NATO to show its ‘overwhelming power’ against Putin, but as always, the devil is in the details.

The Atlantic Alliance has called Moscow its ‘most significant and direct threat,’ but how do both sides’ militaries actually compare?