Madeleine Albright: “The West obviously needs to help Ukraine.”

Like other authoritarians, he equates his well-being with that of the nation, opposition with treason. Because he believes that the U.S. dominates its own region by force, he thinks Russia has the same right.

The failure to pay our old U.N. bills undermines our ability to recruit allies with the kind of structural reform that Congress demands.

Putin is small and pale, so cold as to be almost reptilian, embarrassed by what happened to his country and determined to restore its greatness.

There is a movement on the other side. There is kind of rising nationalism in a number of different countries.