“The United States no longer enjoys the sort of military advantage it possessed in 1991,” writes @ProfessorPape, and it “is not capable of bending others to its will through the exercise of force at low cost.”
“Putin will eventually leave office, whether by death, illness, or—against all observable inclinations—stepping aside. But what happens then is unclear,” writes @JulianWaller. How might Russia’s succession process play out?
The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union was “a colossal economic own goal,” writes @m2matthijs. Now, Brexit is “widely understood across the continent as a cautionary tale.”