The risks of the United States seizing Greenland are great, including the costs of excavating minerals to potentially undoing the NATO alliance.

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How a divided public thinks about conflict.

The preference for freezing wars instead of ending them is one of the more dangerous trends in Western policymaking. What was once widely recognized as an innovation of Vladimir Putin’s

To reach peace, Ukraine and its Western partners must find a way to surmount mistrust. Doing so will not be easy.

NATO’s treaty has loopholes that give member countries, including the US, power over whether or not they want to intervene in a particular conflict.

Despite its bravado in public, the Kremlin has indicated its interest in striking a deal to halt the war — so long as it could still declare victory.