The West’s historical anxieties have made it impossible to come to terms with the war’s reality. On the first day of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner met with then-Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk. As Melnyk later recounted, Lindner didn’t simply decline to supply Ukraine …

China can make friends or break legs. It can’t do both. In the span of a decade, China has emerged as the developing world’s bank of choice, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars in loans into global infrastructure projects as part of its sprawling Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). But …

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden delivered dueling speeches on Tuesday, each offering different visions of Russia’s war in Ukraine and world events more generally. The main news from Putin’s sometimes rambling two-hour speech came toward the end: the suspension of New START, the last remaining nuclear …