Russia’s plan, clearly, is to raise the specter of food shortages (and political instability) as a way to turn world opinion against Ukraine, and to force Western nations to scale back their own campaign of pressure.
The argument over Russia's embassy in Australia;
What's Wagner's status in Africa?;
The human cost to Russia of the Ukraine War;
Prigozhin: not such a pariah after all?
War service becomes a (mostly) blank check for misbehavior;
New understandings between Moscow and Havana;
A stumbling block for Western efforts to seize Russian assets;
What was Prigozhin thinking?;
Minsk's role in Russian war crimes
Last year, more than a million people left Russia, marking what is likely the largest yearly emigration in recorded history... There are real and tangible threats which require sustained attention from the national security apparats of countries that are hosting Russian migrants now or will do so in the future.
With NATO’s latest gathering this week in Vilnius, Washington is understandably focused on what the United States and its allies should do next to help Ukraine rebuff Russia. Moscow’s invasion, however, is part of a larger, multi-nation challenge to which Washington has not yet developed a comprehensive response.
That challenge is the axis of deepening diplomatic, military, and economic cooperation between China, Russia, and Iran. Washington is responding to individual provocations in ways that seem to contradict one another.