Russian President Putin. Twitter
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg: Putin Isn't Scared Yet, But He Should Be
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has launched a promising line of attack on his regime.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's immediate response to the attempted poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury won't impress anyone in the Kremlin. May, however, has indicated a promising line of attack on President Vladimir Putin's regime: An international effort to punish Russia for maintaining an undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons.
May announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats "identified as undeclared intelligence officers," the biggest one since 1971, when 90 Russians were forced to leave. But the Kremlin has been prepared for this largely symbolic response, and it will not be hard to announce a symmetrical one before too long. All that will entail is a potential disruption to travel between Russia and the U.K., like the one that followed tit-for-tat expulsions with the U.S. last year.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 15, 2018
How Russia spies in the UK -- Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
Time's Up: Trump Can't Have It Both Ways on Russia -- Eli Lake, Bloomberg
Where the West has gone wrong in Syria's civil war -- Kersten Knipp, DW
State Department shake-up leaves Qatar hanging -- Jack Detsch, Al-Monitor
After Tillerson, is Gulf crisis heading for a long 'cold peace'? -- William Roberts, Al Jazeera
The world’s trade and stability rest on three men as they prepare to play the Great Game -- Richard Harris, SCMP
Mackinder and Mahan: The Chinese Geopolitics in South Asia -- Jennifer Loy, RCD
25 Years of North Korea Negotiations -- Mike Chinoy, The Cipher Brief
Analyze South Korea Before Turning to North Korea -- Jeffrey Robertson, The Strategist
Aung San Suu Kyi comes to ASEAN summit with reputation tarnished -- Nicholas Farrelly and Adam Simpson, ABC News Online
Egypt's 2018 presidential 'election': What you need to know -- Al Jazeera
Russia, Novichok and the Future of the Chemical Weapons Convention -- Michael Shoebridge, The Strategist
Elon Musk has good reason to be angry about China's astronomical import tariffs -- Bill Birtles, ABC News Online
The world’s trade and stability rest on three men as they prepare to play the Great Game -- Richard Harris, SCMP
I Knew the Cold War. This Is No Cold War. -- Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
