A nation must think before it acts.
Senior Fellow Hal Brands Quoted in Newsweek
Since Russia invaded Ukraine to annex Crimea back in 2014, tensions between the West and the Kremlin have steadily worsened amid a series of events that are causing some on both sides and in the media to declare that a “new Cold War” is underway.
It’s easy to see why. To name but a few of the reasons: Russian and NATO war games; the Kremlin’s involvement in the Syrian war; an emerging arms race between Russia and the U.S.; suspicious deaths of wealthy Russian businessmen in the West; the Skripal poisonings; Russia’s cyber warfare against Western allies; the list goes on.