Putin's war of smoke and mirrors (2016)

"Putin’s war of smoke and mirrors" (9 April 2016), Politico

• Russian GDP equals that of Italy – it should not be an existential threat to the West. We must shake ourselves free from the Kremlin’s masterful fiction and confront the truth that we are in an asymmetric war. This is a war that we can win, and it matters that we do. We are sleepwalking through the end of our era of peace. It is time to wake up.

America, welcome to the war (2016)

"America, welcome to the war" (2 August 2016), Politico

• Reagan ended the long period of containment, saying he had a simple policy objective toward the USSR: "We win and they lose." He inspired a vision that eventually broke the Soviet Union, liberated Europe, and gave Russians a chance to live in a plural, representative democracy where they had the right to determine their own future. They didn't choose it.

• The United States has the luxury of being very far from the front. Unfortunately, information war isn’t geographical — so, America, welcome to the war.