Richard N. Haass: “This is a civil war. Whether you think it was humanitarian intervention or not, this is a civil war.”

Whatever it is we do in this part of the world, multilateralism will prove essential. We simply cannot deal adequately with China's power and China's reach unilaterally.

The grim aftermath of America`s strategic and moral failure will reinforce questions about U.S. reliability among friends and foes far and wide.

We ought to have a race to the top, not a race to the bottom.

He doesn't want Ukraine to be a thriving democracy that would set an example that some people in Russia might notice and say, why there, not here?