Tony Greco

What to do about Russia’s threatened invasion of Ukraine?  I think it altogether reasonable for the US and other Western nations to supply Ukraine with defensive weaponry to help deter Russian aggression.  But I’m glad that President Biden has said ...

I’ve pretty much said it all before so this is going to be short.  Certainly, the US should firmly oppose a threatened Russian invasion of Ukraine.  But we still need a grand bargain with Russia that acknowledges and accommodates Russia/Putin’s ...

The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks always calls forth a great deal of heart-wrenching recollections. I personally find it just too hard to read the many stories of the victims and their families that always get published in the days ...

I haven’t been closely following the news from Afghanistan in recent days, partly because it’s so depressing, but mostly because I don’t think knowing additional detail would change my general view of the situation. I don’t doubt that Biden made ...

Bob Kutner, co-founder and editor of the excellent left-wonkish journal The American  Prospect, has long been one of my favorite commentators on economic policy and its politics.  He doesn’t often talk about foreign policy, but in his latest newsletter post ...

In his recent meetings with NATO allies President Biden had some difficulty in convincing them of Washington’s view of the gravity of the China threat. But just what is the China threat?  It’s certainly not military, at least not to ...

The two major foreign policy challenges facing the Biden administration are Russia and China.  Both of these countries are governed by ugly, brutal regimes, but they are regimes with which the US perforce must deal, while minimizing the risks of ...