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‘Axis of Upheaval’ Adds Urgency to Review of UK Defence Spending
“Russia has been the catalyst of this,” said Richard Fontaine, the co-author of an April paper in Foreign Affairs entitled The Axis of Upheaval. A desperate search for munitio...
By Richard Fontaine
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NATO Is Helping Ukraine to Fight—but Not to Win
It’s an approach that stands in stark contrast to the administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, for which senior administration officials have outlined a dubious but ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Putin Shows He Can Antagonize the U.S. Far Afield From Ukraine
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said there was now an increased risk of an unintended escalation, where one side takes an act...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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With All Eyes on Kharkiv, Russian Troops Take One Donbas Village After Another
FPV drones account for about 90% of the injuries over the past half a year, according to medic Oleksii, with the 130th Territorial Defense Brigade deployed near Chasiv Yar. Ol...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Steps Up a Covert Sabotage Campaign Aimed at Europe
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former U.S. intelligence official, said Russia’s plan might be to weaken European resolve. While that outcome may be doubtful, she said it was importa...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Why Growing China-Russia Military Ties Worry the West
Beyond technology, Russia's importance as a supplier for Beijing would increase significantly if China fought a war over Taiwan, according to Andrea Kendall-Taylor, director o...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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China-Russia: an economic ‘friendship’ that could rattle the world
Moscow’s increasing reliance on Beijing does not necessarily bother the Kremlin, says Andrea Kendall-Taylor, director of the transatlantic security programme at the Center for...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine
Part of the Russians’ plan with this overall attack, military analysts said, is to threaten Kharkiv and force Ukraine to divert troops from other battlefields, especially thos...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Georgian PM Slams U.S. Criticism Of Draft Law That Sparked Mass Protests
Nicholas Lokker, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, says the introduction of the bill is a sign the Georgian Dream government is trying to maintain good tie...
By Nicholas Lokker
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The Very Real Limits of the Russia-China ‘No Limits’ Partnership
“What’s even more important is what Russia is having to give away in return” for what it’s getting from China, said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, director of the Transatlantic Securi...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia’s Wartime Production Fuels Its Economy
“Russia’s economy shifted to war-economy mode,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “Nabiullina, her credentials, her exper...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Putin’s War Will Soon Reach Russians’ Tax Bills
The proposed tax increase underscores Mr. Putin’s rising confidence about his political control over the Russian elite and his country’s economic resilience at home, showing t...
By Richard Connolly
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Congress Finally Advanced Aid to Ukraine, but Is It Too Little, Too Late?
This was massively needed, but it’s not a silver bullet,” added Nicholas Lokker, a research associate for the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American S...
By Nicholas Lokker
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Trump-Proofing Weapons for Ukraine: Allies Consider Moving Arms Group into NATO
Formalizing the group within NATO would go a long way toward protecting support for Ukraine from changes in U.S. and Western governments, experts said — and particularly from ...
By Jim Townsend
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Why Russia’s Vast Security Services Fell Short on Deadly Attack
“Because the F.S.B. — and Putin — sees the world through the prism that the United States is out to get Russia, any information that is not consistent with that frame is easil...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ukraine’s Drone Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries Mark New Phase in War
By the middle of February, drone attacks had damaged five oil refineries. In the immediate aftermath, Russia banned gasoline exports from March 1 until Aug. 31 to ensure suffi...
By Peter Schroeder
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Ukraine’s Allies Keep Hitting Russia with More Sanctions — and Russia Keeps Finding Ways Around Them
Sanctions have, to some extent, "achieved an economic shock to Russia," said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct fellow at the Centre for New American Security who tracks the impacts of...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Putin, Trump, Production Capacity: The Defence Challenges Facing Europe
Jim Townsend, a former US deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and Nato policy, said: “Right now, does Europe have the ability to fill gaps the US might leave? T...
By Jim Townsend
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How Initial U.S. Support for Aiding Ukraine Has Come to a Standstill 2 Years Later
"I think Putin feels extraordinarily confident heading into the third year of the war in Ukraine," Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a director at the Center for a New American Security ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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CNAS Responds: Two Years of War in Ukraine
Saturday, February 24, marks the sobering occasion of two years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In preparation for the anniversary, CNAS experts analyze the many impacts t...
By Richard Fontaine, Stacie Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser, Nicholas Lokker, John Hughes & Edward Fishman