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Heading into this week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, President Biden has made one thing plain: Ukraine won’t be joining the alliance any time soon, no matter how badly it might want to. “I don’t think it’s ready for membership in NATO,” Biden bluntly told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview that...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is turning to a familiar playbook in shoring up his authority: a smear campaign against Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group military leader who led a brief mutiny against the Kremlin. Public opinion against Prigozhin dropped sharply in the days after the rebellion. So Putin...
President Joe Biden remains the most reluctant among NATO allies to grant Ukraine a quick pathway to join the alliance, setting up a contentious debate at the summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next week with eastern flank members who are eager for the war-torn country to join as soon as its conflict with Russia ends...
The highly anticipated 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania is set to take place this coming week. As the war between Russia and Ukraine rages on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping his nation gets an invite to join the alliance. However, NATO leaders are divided over if and when Ukraine...
The Acting Country Director of the institute, Dr Chris Kwaja, made the promise in Kaduna on Thursday, during a meeting with Mr Atiku Sankey, Special Adviser to Gov. Uba Sani on Peacebuilding. Kwaja said that the USIP has been working with the Kaduna State Peace Commission to strengthen the state’s peace...
Half a century after the last American combat troops left Vietnam, the U.S. has taken the first steps in a major but little-noticed policy shift to solidify relations with its former adversary by helping the Vietnamese account for and identify their war dead. Under a July 2020 Vietnam Wartime Accounting...
Russian missiles hit downtown Lviv earlier today in what Ukrainian officials called the biggest attack to date on civilian areas in the major western city. This comes as both sides accuse each other of plotting to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. For more on this, Eric Thomas...
The idea was ahead of its time and has paid geopolitical dividends in the growing U.S. cold war with China. Saturday marks a year since former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed by an assassin’s bullet in an attack that shocked the nation. The anniversary also sparks reflections and a realization...
Developments in Venezuela over the past few weeks have provided reason for both deep pessimism and guarded hope that the country’s presidential election next year could help resolve its political crisis and advance a democratic transition. On the one hand, the regime-controlled legislature...
The goal of the meetings was to create a foundation for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Ukraine. Former Ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor, joins...