The Europeans have run out of postures and gestures in the way of performative statecraft, and the Russians see no point in indulging them any further.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: All Unquiet on the Ukrainian Front
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s ‘Samson Option’
It wasn’t hard to foresee that those planning and executing U.S. foreign policy, lacking all imagination and anything remotely resembling courage, would prove incapable of an orderly transition to a multipolar world order.