Behind Putin’s war—and any discussions about peace—is a two-century-old fiction about the two countries’ unity.

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

A measured, relentless advance applies political pressure. The more destruction looms, the more intense the pressure.

Famous foreigners have often attracted large American crowds, but neither the Beetles nor the Rolling Stones nor Winston ...

Despite having wasted the lives of perhaps 200,000 Russian soldiers, his army is still failing to overwhelm Ukraine’s forces.

Mr. Napolitano’s op-ed, “My weekend in Moscow” (Web, March 12), needs to be retracted. It reads as though its contents were spoon-fed to Mr. Napolitano by Vladimir Putin himself. It contains nothing ...

The propaganda goal ahead of the Paris summit was only partially achieved, as the event was canceled after a CIA spy plane was shot down over the USSR, and its surviving pilot was sentenced to ten ...

Europe is at a crucial juncture of its history. The American shield is slipping away, Ukraine risks being abandoned, and ...

"He earnestly asks Putin" to spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers who are allegedly surrounded, and Putin demands the ...