With the world watching for a possible war, we asked 13 Russia and Putin experts what might be next — and what Biden should do. politico.com/news/magazine/…

The same dysfunctionality that brought Boris to 10 Downing could let him stay there long enough to be ambushed by next year’s cake, Ryan Heath writes. politico.com/news/magazine/…

TIL there's a junior MP who writes the Queen a daily email about parliamentary gossip...who occasionally becomes a hostage of Buckingham Palace to ensure the Queen doesn't get beheaded by Parliament. politico.eu/article/how-qu…

Joyeux anniversaire to a great podcast, which I hope to join again someday as a French-speaking guest! cc: Alexandre Jubelin

Sex and the City gets results

Axios reports one of the big scoops in my new WATERGATE book—it's been long-rumored, but never confirmed, that the Pentagon took away Nixon's nuclear powers in his final hours as president. Until now. I actually found a soldier who received the orders:

I learned a lot from Daniel Fried and Kurt Volker's piece on Putin's infamous Munich speech, particularly re: the post-Cold War optimism on Russia that they argue was fitting at the time but lingered for far too long. politico.com/news/magazine/…

"To flood the media with this amount of intelligence might be a new tactic for national-security officials, but it is very much of the moment in other ways." newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

"His earlier quiescence has been revealed for what it really was: war by other means." politico.eu/article/vlladi…

“As we have searched for Russian phantoms behind every misinformed Facebook post, Russia has replaced the poorly equipped army it inherited from the Soviet Union with a modern fighting force.” nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opi…

Appreciated this post from Kori Schake 🌻🇺🇦 @kschake.bsky.social about why she didn't believe Putin would invade. aei.org/foreign-and-de…

Note: Today's sunset in DC is at 6p and won't be before 6p again until next November.

What impact has the Russian invasion of Ukraine had on your support for nuclear arms control?

By sometime next week, this article will be the most read we've ever published warontherocks.com/2021/11/feedin…

NEW: How far can the United States go in Ukraine before it’s at war with Russia? The White House is asking itself that question every day, and the latest pressure from Poland & Putin isn’t helping. My latest: politico.com/news/2022/03/0…

North Korea is bringing out the big missiles ... it just tested its first ICBM since 2017, reports Alex Ward and Quint Forgey. politi.co/3J6WMVO via POLITICO

"Why haven’t China’s increasing Indian Ocean capabilities raised more alarm bells in Washington, given the laser focus on China these days?" Sameer P. Lalwani writes for POLITICO Magazine on America's growing vulnerability in the Indian Ocean and how India can help. politico.com/news/magazine/…

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