Amid rumors that Joe Biden plans to force Ukraine to negotiate a settlement with Russia, Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead argues in the Wall Street Journal that Biden’s first steps to avoid a costly Western defeat should be to step up military aid and break Vladimir Putin’s global networks of influence.

On Sky News, Hudson Senior Fellow Michael Doran calls out the Biden administration’s continued appeasement of the Islamic Republic as Iranian puppets continue to attack United States forces.

As China’s faltering economy weakens its geopolitical standing, Hudson Senior Fellow Thomas J. Duesterberg lays out how America can respond to defend the US-led international order. Read his new report, or listen to his discussion of its findings with Hudson China Center Director Miles Yu.

Hudson Research Fellow James Barnett gives an inside look at the underground oil industry, militia turf wars, and cult groups in one of Africa’s most resource-rich regions on the podcast Popular Front.

On the tenth anniversary of the historic Maidan protests, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as the Ukrainian people’s “first counteroffensive” against Russia, Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey reminds readers of the importance of national self-determination.

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­­The B-21 Raider could be America’s secret weapon against a rising axis of revisionist nuclear powers. Ahead of the release of a forthcoming report on the bomber, Hudson Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs will host an expert panel with the report’s authors and a conversation with Senator Mike Rounds of North Dakota.