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3 weeks ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Rebecca Patterson |Ivo Daalder |Andrei Soldatov |Daniel Byman
During its 76-year history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has faced its share of crises, but none have been as grave as what it confronts today. Since returning to office, U.S. President Donald Trump has questioned the two core principles of the alliance’s collective defense commitment: that there is a shared understanding of the threats to NATO members and that security among all those members is indivisible.
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4 weeks ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Rebecca Patterson |Joshua Kurlantzick |Alexander Vindman |Andrei Soldatov
President Donald Trump’s approach to Russia and Ukraine—deferring to Moscow, bullying Kyiv—may seem like a radical departure from precedent. In fact, it is only Trump’s extreme style of diplomacy that is novel, as exemplified by the public scolding he meted out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office in February. No American president has ever so publicly taken Russia’s side against one of Washington’s European partners.
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1 month ago | 
cepa.org | Ieva Ilves |Ronan Murphy |Irina Borogan |Andrei Soldatov
Ukraine has withstood relentless cyberattacks and protected its critical infrastructure—all while fighting a full-scale war. As the US threatens to withdraw its support, Europe should step in to pick up the bill and embed the embattled Ukraine’s hard-earned cyber experience in its revamped security strategy. Here are four key cybersecurity lessons from Ukraine. Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure risk as much devastation as physical attacks.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Edward Lucas |Andrei Soldatov |Irina Borogan |Aura Sabadus
Europe is under sustained Russian assault. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, acts of physical aggression against NATO’s European domain have surged beyond even Cold War levels.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Edward Lucas |Benjamin Schmitt |Andrei Soldatov |Irina Borogan
Europe is under sustained Russian assault. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, acts of physical aggression against NATO’s European domain have surged beyond even Cold War levels.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Mykyta Vorobiov |Edward Lucas |Andrei Soldatov |Irina Borogan
From his 2021 claim that Lenin created Ukraine as a state, to his assertion in September that Crimea was merely gifted to Kyiv by Khrushchev, the Russian president has repeatedly used distorted accounts of history to justify his imperialist agenda. The Kremlin’s use of the Soviet legacy has been increasing since the full-scale invasion and is still on the rise.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Edward Lucas |Andrei Soldatov |Irina Borogan |Sergiy Makogon
International summits finish with a “family photo”. But the picture marking the end of the G7’s seaside get-together in Japan in May 2016 looks like the opening scene of a disaster movie. The assembled world leaders were mulling what seem by today’s standards minor and malleable problems, not the tsunamis that were racing towards them. Cameron, Hollande, Juncker, Merkel, Renzi — all are gone now. True, Donald Tusk, then the EU Council President, is now Poland’s prime minister.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Andrei Soldatov |Irina Borogan |Aura Sabadus |Chris Stephen
Turkey may object to the Kremlin’s behavior in Syria, and other places like Libya, but there remain several areas where two countries seem to be in near-perfect lockstep — the most important being Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Russian House, a branch of Rossotrudnichestvo, a main tool of the Russian soft power effort abroad, operates with complete freedom in Turkey. And it uses that liberty to openly promote the war in Ukraine.
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Jan 13, 2025 | cepa.org | Andrei Soldatov |Irina Borogan |Aura Sabadus |Chris Stephen
Turkey may object to the Kremlin’s behavior in Syria, and other places like Libya, but there remain several areas where two countries seem to be in near-perfect lockstep — the most important being Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Russian House, a branch of Rossotrudnichestvo, a main tool of the Russian soft power effort abroad, operates with complete freedom in Turkey. And it uses that liberty to openly promote the war in Ukraine.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Rob McGillis |Alison Mutler |Irina Borogan |Andrei Soldatov
In January, Donald Trump will return to power with the aim of delivering on his pledge to Make America Great Again. To the President and many in his orbit, that requires both projecting strength and withdrawing from foreign entanglements of all kinds.
