Steven Pifer

For arms control, the administration doesn’t have a Sam Nunn and a Dick Lugar in the Senate anymore. When you look at both sides, Democrat and Republican, there’s no one like them.

I can conceive of no circumstance in which the United States would launch a 'bolt from the blue' first strike on Russia.

Ukraine's population is only 17 percent ethnically Russian. Putin always mangled this fact, claiming that 17 million Ukrainians were ethnic Russians, which would equate to 37 percent of the population. Russia's aggression appears to be erasing the dividing line.... One unintended consequence of the conflict is [a new] sense of Ukrainian unity.