"No side in the conflict, from Russia to Ukraine’s U.S. and E.U. allies, seems to have any idea how to avert disaster, be that leaving Ukraine in ruins, a global recession, a nuclear war, or at least all of the above."

"To say that America’s support for NATO expansion and a European-aligned Ukraine caused Putin’s invasion is not to say that those policies justified Russia’s war of conquest."

"President Biden’s controversial plan to divide billions in frozen Afghan funds between 9/11 families and humanitarian relief is unlikely to help many Afghans or successfully punish the Taliban."

>"India’s foreign policy challenge in the early 1990s was as profound as the economic one."

Biden didn’t have to wait long for this courting of big business to pay off.

"International crises demand international solutions."

"A third option is necessary: a way to rent without making someone else rich."