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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Putin Didn’t Think He Would Fool Anyone
The sham referendum in Ukraine was for domestic consumption.
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Contributor / Getty The Russian Clocks Are All Ticking
Putin is running out of time.
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Getty The Kremlin Must Be in Crisis
Putin’s erratic actions are not those of a secure leader.
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Getty; U.S. Department of State; The Atlantic Putin Is Cornered
The West faces a simple choice: reduce aid to Ukraine and deliver Russia a victory, or else finish the job it has begun.
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Getty Who Knows What Putin Will Do Next?
Plus: A controversy about class
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Kirill Kudryavtsev / Getty To Putin, Brittney Griner Is a Pawn. To the U.S., She’s a Person.
Russia will regard any prisoner swap as a propaganda win. But the real message we can proclaim is about American values.
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David Turnley / Corbis / Getty What Putin’s Treatment of Jews Reveals About Russia
His move to kick out the agency that assists émigrés to Israel fits a pattern from Soviet times of using Russian Jews as pawns.
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Win McNamee / Getty ‘France Has Delivered Almost Nothing’
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s former secretary-general, is not impressed by Emmanuel Macron’s diplomacy with Russia over Ukraine.
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Art Media / Print Collector / Getty What a 1904 War Can Teach Vladimir Putin
The Russo-Japanese War led not just to an immediate revolution, but to deeper and longer-lasting change years later.
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Ruben Salvadori/contrasto/Redux Where Russia’s Declinist Rage Isn’t Enough
An ex-Soviet state’s national myths—as well as the forces of nationalism, economics, culture, and religion—all pull it away from Moscow. Can Russia really compete?
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Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Who Perseveres, Wins
It is up to liberal democracies to support a country that is fighting for all who share its values.
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Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik / AFP / Getty The War Won’t End Until Putin Loses
Offering the Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future aggression.
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Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Getty World War II Is All That Putin Has Left
The regime offers Russians little more than selective memories of Soviet-era military triumph.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP We Can’t Face Down Putin Alone
The U.S. must look far and wide for partners, including in the Middle East.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty Putin Isn’t the Only Autocrat Misusing History
The Russian leader’s invasion of Ukraine is founded on a false retelling of history. He’s not the only strongman revising the past.
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Ramil Sitdikov / AFP / Getty Why the Russian People Go Along With Putin’s War
Being good is hard if you live under an authoritarian regime.
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Sylvain Lefevre / Chesnot / Getty; The Atlantic ‘If Macron Loses, Putin Wins’
No matter the outcome of Sunday’s election, the appeal of extremist candidates is worrying for the health of transatlantic liberalism.
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Petros Giannakouris / AP A Neutral Ukraine Is a Dangerous Idea
Even if Kyiv agrees not to align with the West, Putin will have other demands.
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The Atlantic The ‘Putin Is Bad, But’ Republicans
At a recent conference, some members of the right identified foreign-policy hawks and neoconservatives, rather than Democrats, as their biggest enemies.
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Getty; The Atlantic Putin Is Just Following the Manual
A utopian Russian novel predicted Putin’s war plan.
