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 tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...

Look no further than the Napoleonic Wars and World War II ... America down in a theater of secondary importance while scoring propaganda points in Asia and the larger Cold War.

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

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 ...