The Pitfalls of Biden’s Partnership Proliferation

Stephen Walt criticizes the Biden administration’s version of “Pactomania”: Even when states are united by a shared perception of threats, however, the ultimate value of the partnership depends in part on whether the members agree on a common strategy and are willing...

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Canada Applauds a Waffen-SS Soldier

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In 1985, President Ronald Reagan was attacked for visiting a German military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, because that cemetery included forty graves of members of the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the...

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A Revealing Few Days in Ukraine

On Sunday September 3rd, Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky replaced Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov with a 41 year old former lawmaker named Rustam Umerov. Since Russia’s invasion of February 2022 Ukraine’s military and Ministry of Defense have been “dogged by...

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