Tyler McBrien

2 months ago | lawfaremedia.org | Daniel Byman |Anastasiia Lapatina |Tyler McBrien

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With In 2019, the relationship between The United States and Ukraine faces one of its biggest tests during a phone call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The resulting scandal makes Ukraine a toxic issue for some lawmakers in the US Congress, where Ukrainian veterans are still trying to generate support for the war to this day. Anastasiia Lapatina is a Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare.

2 months ago | lawfaremedia.org | Anastasiia Lapatina |Tyler McBrien |Benjamin Wittes

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With February 24, 2025, marked three years of Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion—three years of resilience, sacrifice, and a war that has reshaped global politics. As Ukraine faces mounting battlefield challenges and growing uncertainty over U.S. support, the war has reached a pivotal moment.

2 months ago | lawfaremedia.org | Tyler McBrien |Anastasiia Lapatina

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With A dirty presidential campaign in Ukraine culminates in an attempted assassination and ‘The Orange Revolution,’ where Ukrainians stop The Kremlin’s attempts to rig the election. Years later at a NATO summit in 2008, The United States and European allies concoct a high-risk plan to protect Ukraine going forward. Tyler McBrien is the managing editor of Lawfare.

2 months ago | lawfaremedia.org | Tyler McBrien |Van Jackson |Michael Brenes |Jen Patja

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With On today’s episode, Van Jackson, Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, and Michael Brenes, Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University, join Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk about their new book, “The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy,” in which they make the case for the United...

2 months ago | lawfaremedia.org | Tyler McBrien |Anastasiia Lapatina

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With By the late 90’s, Russia is reverting back to its corrupt, authoritarian ways and Ukraine begins to slide backward with it. In Ukraine, that corruption will lead to a gruesome murder and cover-up. While in Russia, that corruption will destroy any hopes for an emerging democracy. But after 9/11, The United States is solely focused on the fight against terrorism.