Old and young, healthy and sick, men and women, and even infants and infirm, were killed in cold blood. They were not combatants in civil war or rebellions, they were not criminals. Indeed, nearly all were guilty of … nothing.

The United States’ failure to field a credible, theater nuclear-deterrence capability is destabilizing and puts the United States at a disadvantage with its adversaries in Beijing, Moscow, and Pyongyang—all of which are building and fielding low-yield theater-range non-strategic nuclear weapons (NSNWs) that can target U.

By doing so, the United States is condoning Russia’s subversion of the postwar Europe that America helped create and secure. The parties Russia favors are hostile to the European Union, opposed to higher military spending and receptive to Russia’s arguments about the recklessness of NATO expansion and the need to assert right-wing Christian values.

Washington is winding down its European security contributions and backing away from Ukraine. Europeans could learn from history as they wrestle with deploying a military presence to deter

Donald Trump seems either unaware or unconcerned that Vladimir Putin’s plan is to weaken the United States too.

Trump threatens Moscow with tariffs and sanctions for ‘absolutely pounding’ Ukraine - US president considers targeting Putin after hundreds of missiles and drones hit energy infrastructure

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Fresh possibilities have emerged for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia with a change of power in Washington.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. His death was confirmed by the International Chess ...

In a world where the United States is aligned with Russia and against Europe, Russia wins and we lose, Chicago Tribune columnist Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.