LISD co-sponsors "NATO at 75: Past, Present, and Future" on April 24. Featuring Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Douglas Lute, Congressman Brendan Boyle, Karen Donfried & Pinzón Bueno - ENG. Open to the public. RSVP: bit.ly/3UfiwH2. Princeton School of Public & International Affairs

Listen: Douglas Lute and Kurt Volker join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to preview this week's NATO summit. cnas.org/publications/p…

And now remove caveats on Ukraine’s use of weapons. Ukraine should be bound, as we are all bound, by the laws of war. Those caveats are sufficient. More caveats are excessive. Douglas Lute

What are your thoughts on the deliverables for 🇺🇦 Ukraine? Asks Atlantic Council Europe Center’s Rachel Rizzo. “The bridge metaphor works in part, but I’m not sure it’s completely satisfactory,” says former US Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute. Watch the #NATOPublicForum: ➡️ bit.ly/4byBGwR

New Foreign Policy Research Institute podcast with Rick Landgraf, Department of Social Sciences at West Point-mate Douglas Lute & Aylin Matlé Episode 3: The Price of Peace open.substack.com/pub/tiesthatbi…

If you're interested in the underlying analysis, you can find it on War on the Rocks here: warontherocks.com/2024/05/the-ti…

I agree (to a degree) with my old boss Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. and unfortunately disagree with my dear friend Douglas Lute. The support from both Department of Defense 🇺🇸, NATO & others in helping Ukraine build & then support an army they did not have in Feb 22 has been nothing short of miraculous.

Jim Stavridis is right. There is still time, but time is not on Ukraine’s side.

I accept that the support to Ukraine has been huge, but that doesn’t mean it has been enough. I do not believe there is any deliberate intent to produce stalemate, but stalemate is the effect.

Mark Hertling Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. Douglas Lute Department of Defense 🇺🇸 NATO Impressive group of defense thinkers. The Biden Administration’s response to Putin’s aggression has prevented an Ukraine’s defeat, but not enabled its victory. Stavridis is right that victory is still possible, but only if, as Lute argues, US policy becomes bolder.

Important that sensible Russians are also speaking out about this senseless war... Well done! Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The outcome of this war is not predetermined. Russian occupiers are vulnerable and Ukraine has options.

The Biden administration's decision to loosen restrictions on the use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles provides an opportunity for Ukraine to make strategic gains in its war with Russia, writes Douglas Lute in a new CFR Preventive Action policy brief. Read more: on.cfr.org/49jR3ty

Douglas Lute wrote the first Ukraine Policy Brief for Council on Foreign Relations's Special Initiative on Securing Ukraine's Future. Read about how the United States can support Ukraine in isolating the Russian military with a campaign of long-range strikes: on.cfr.org/49jR3ty

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That's not true. Every US president has demanded European gov'ts spend more on their own defense albeit evidently too politely. It IS true Trump likely spurred some increased funding faster but he didn't reverse the decline -- Putin did that in 2014. 2/2

Right. The president most responsible for 10 consecutive years of real increases in NATO defense spending is Putin — not Obama, Trump or Biden. Data shows that the rate of increase for many allies actually decreased under Trump.

For countries like Germany, for the government to appear it was increasing its defense spending because of Trump's pressure was highly unpopular, even when Germans KNEW they needed to ramp up of their own accord.

America’s allies are the greatest strategic advantage we hold over competitors Russia and China. Draw allies closer, don’t push them away.

Where do we stand after the opening night of Trump does Ukraine? The first glimpse of substance from Hegseth suggests huge concessions will be demanded from Kyiv with no sign of similar pressure on Moscow - rather the reverse, with Trump running hard after Putin. Bottom line? 1/7