“The world is on the brink of the largest military offensive in Europe since World War II,” Alexander Vindman and Dominic Cruz Bustillos wrote recently in Foreign Affairs. “A major military conflict in Ukraine would be a catastrophe. It is an outcome that no one should crave. But it is now a likelihood for which the United States must prepare.”
With Russian forces massed at the Ukrainian border and U.S. officials warning of an imminent attack, read a selection of our best essays on the origins of the current crisis—and how it could end.
