Commentary and Analysis

The West must provide weapons to enable Ukraine "to take the fight to the Russians," Council President Ivo Daalder tells CNBC's Shep Smith.

With coming visits to India, “There will be an opportunity for the US to smooth over some feathers that have been ruffled,” says Craig Kafura on India Today.

Is the war in Ukraine slowing down? “It just isn’t true for the people suffering in Mariupol,” Ivo Daalder tells MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

Karen DeYoung, Steve Erlanger, and Ed Luce join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

How have US attitudes toward the war in Ukraine, and Washington’s response, evolved? Senior Fellow Dina Smelts unpacks with War on the Rocks.

Peace talks in Istanbul are “an indication that the tables are turning a bit, and Russia no longer has the upper hand,” says Elizabeth Shackelford on VOA.

“Transatlantic effort to accelerate economic change in industrial heartland regions has huge implications,” cowrites John Austin in the National Interest.

Tanvi Mandan and Srinath Raghavan unpack India’s foreign policy calculations between Russia, China, and a unified West.

After six weeks of Russia's violence in Ukraine, “still to blame NATO is, frankly, absurd,” argues Ivo Daalder. He explains why in the Economist.

As negotiations unfold in Turkey, Council President Ivo Daalder joins CNN's Christiane Amanpour with Andrey Kortunov to analyze Russia's pitfalls in Ukraine.