Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth, Opinion Contributors

Until Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin was singing the equivalent of the Frank Sinatra song “My Way” in Ukraine. That remains to be seen, as President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, heads to Moscow this week. Putin had made it […]

It has been another bad week for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed faster than Afghanistan’s had in August 2021. Syrian rebels caught Putin’s armed forces by surprise and swept through Aleppo, forcing the Russians to vacate several