Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
This is a very narrow lane of supporting Ukraine but hopefully not escalating the war.
Marie Yovanovitch is a career diplomat who was thrust into the spotlight during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial.
A president of the United States weighing the consequences of humanitarian intervention in the case of Ukraine has more than just world factors to take into account.
To investigate China’s stance on the conflict and to better understand the interests that Beijing is trying to protect and advance in the Ukraine crisis, Bonnie Glaser will speak with Dr. Evan Feigenbaum, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
This is just not a strategy that many people were thinking about beforehand because it doesn't seem straightforward how this will lead to a positive outcome.
There are striking parallels between the Russian invasion of Chechnya in 1994 and of Ukraine today. In both cases, the Russian leader believed that war would be over quickly, and even that many people would welcome them as liberators. In both cases, the Chechens and Ukrainians rallied and fought back.
While President Vladimir Putin expected little resistance in Ukraine, as was the case in Crimea in 2014, instead he is experiencing what Russia faced in its 1994 attempted invasion of Chechnya. In both cases, once Russian forces encountered political resistance, they had no plan B, leading to intense fighting.
Evan Feigenbaum offers a compelling analysis of the difficult position that Beijing now finds itself in after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — unable to reconcile conflicting commitments to China’s strategic partnership with Russia, its foreign policy principles, and its desire to avoid being collateral damage from American and European sanctions.
Between the misinformation coming out of Moscow, the NATO expansion angle that gets underplayed in Western media, Ukraine's messaging spearheaded by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the larger battle for hearts and minds - a lot is happening in the media war over Ukraine.
In the now 24 plus hours since he (Putin) gave that order, we've seen some reporting from U.S. Officials suggesting that nothing has actually changed in Russia's nuclear posture.