russian invasion of ukraine

We should not underestimate Putin, says NATO’s Benedetta Berti

Crisis Recovery

We should not underestimate Putin, says NATO’s Benedetta Berti

The war in Ukraine may not have gone the way Vladimir Putin expected, but his objectives remain the same. “I don’t think we underestimated Russia’s strategy and what they were planning in Ukraine … If anything, maybe at the beginning we had overestimated the Russians’ military capabilities,” says Benedetta Berti, NATO’s policy planning chief at the Munich Security Conference.

Many knew Putin wasn't bluffing, but not how far he'd go, says International Crisis Group’s Comfort Ero

Crisis Recovery

Many knew Putin wasn't bluffing, but not how far he'd go, says International Crisis Group’s Comfort Ero

Global policy lagged behind when it came to preparing for the Russian invasion. “What surprises me is that no actor says they’re surprised by what happened. You ask yourself, what about the steps that ought to have been taken?” says Comfort Ero, president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, during a Global Stage livestream conversation at the Munich Security Conference.

Podcast: Authoritarians won’t defeat American values, says John Kerry

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast

Podcast: Authoritarians won’t defeat American values, says John Kerry

Listen: John Kerry, former US Secretary of State and current climate czar, pushed back against the idea that this will be "the century of the authoritarian" in a GZERO World interview with Ian Bremmer at the Munich Security Conference (before the invasion of Ukraine). If China and Russia have been on a sort of authoritarian honeymoon because they think America is declining, "that is a very serious misconception,” he said, because "Americans will unite and come together" if threatened. Meanwhile, both China and Russia face a looming demographic crunch.

Putin invasion of Ukraine: Worst outbreak of war since 1939

Putin invasion of Ukraine: Worst outbreak of war since 1939

Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden, shares his perspective from Europe on the Russian invasion of Ukraine: The worst has come to happen. The Putin invasion of Ukraine that we now see unfolding is the worst outbreak of war that we've had since Hitler invaded Poland in September of 1939.