Ariel Cohen

Ukraine’s tilt to the West is forcing Putin’s hand in the region. The U.S., as the leader of the West, cannot allow this to happen.

Both sides of the Atlantic need to face down the challenge from China, and Russia must be given a choice of joining the West or facing China alone.

This is the best shot Venezuela had at democracy for a generation—and the U.S. can't afford to sit this one out.

America appears to be in retreat, and its opponents are taking notice.

There's an emerging geopolitical chess-match between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran for hegemony of the Middle East.

Is Trump attempting to lure Putin to leave his de-facto alliance with China?

Trump should not further insult and alienate the Europeans.

Can the German Chancellor’s Washington trip thaw relations with the U.S.?

After hopes of a quick détente, it’s Cold War business as usual at the Kremlin.

When NATO deployed three battalions from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Putin countered with three divisions.

In the first eight months of 2014, 203,000 Russians left Russia, almost surpassing the 1999 record of 215,000, after the economy had tanked.

Moscow uses Gazprom to impose its foreign policy agenda on European countries.

Military aid to Assad and the Crimea occupation show Putin’s ambitions are unsustainable.

Putin’s Security Council veto shows how isolated Moscow has become one year after the MH17 tragedy.

By deeming the old Soviet Union’s ceding of the Baltics and Ukraine illegal, Putin hopes to unsettle Europe.

Arab oil ministers meeting in Vienna on June 5 must confront the devastating consequences of the war in their midst.

The Russia president cannot expect a warming of U.S.-Russia relations after 2016. On the contrary.