I bring up Reagan in part because he was not afraid of Russia. Part of the problem shared by Trump and Biden in dealing with the Ukraine war is placing too much stock in Putin’s nuclear threats.

President Trump’s views of the G-7 summit as an economic forum rather than a beacon of democracy and his failure to ...

As the Russian president slow-walks peace talks, GOP leaders hope to pressure their own president into taking a tougher ...

“I’m not happy with what Putin is doing. He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin,” said Donald Trump on Truth Social over the holiday weekend. “I ...

Levin told MAGA loyalists to “cover your ears” and ignore the movement’s “isolationists” who he accused of abandoning allies ...

Putin didn’t care then, and he won’t care now. Trump apparently still believes that he has some personal connection to Putin, that he and the Kremlin dictator are peers and he can sway his ...

Even so, the effect of Trump’s management of the Russia-China-U.S. geostrategic triangle is accomplishing not a reverse-Nixon strategy but, inadvertently, a reverse-Reagan.

Michael Reagan argues that U.S. failures and weak diplomacy have allowed Putin to dominate the war in Ukraine, leaving Zelenskyy isolated and Russia poised to keep its territorial gains.

But Trump’s unabashed fawning over Putin’s authoritarian “genius” is clearly intended to do for Putin what Nixon, and especially Kissinger, did for Mao’s communist regime: welcome it ...

Like Reagan, Trump is very close to a deal, and now is the moment to be firm. Trump has done well luring Putin with reminiscences about the U.S. alliance with the Russians during World War II, an ...

Reagan appointed Pipes to his National Security Council and, as a close but secret follower of geopolitics (the movie magazines wouldn’t have understood), observed Josef Stalin’s postwar ...