“If Russian President Vladimir Putin gets away with his aggression in Ukraine – securing concessions without paying a heavy economic price – Japan will be motivated to take more radical action to ensure its own security,” Takatoshi Ito writes.

“Russia was always a very reliable supplier and adapted its commercial terms to the changing European market, ensuring the competitiveness of its gas,” Pierre Noël, global research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy, comments.

Stephen Biddle said it’s difficult to decipher Moscow’s intent from Friday’s statement.

“I think what frustrates me the most is the world has moved oceans to support Ukraine and no one is thinking about the other marginalized communities in Ukraine that need support,” Maciré Aribot MIA ’23 says.

SIPA’s tech specialization convened experts to discuss the European Union’s upcoming digital services legislation and more.

“They have lots of reasons to solidify the ‘One China’ principle, as they put it, in the minds of the leadership of the United Nations,” interim dean Thomas Christensen comments.

“His dress [Zelenskyy], which is kind of an army-distressed look, transmits someone who's on the ground with his people, with his troops,” William B. Eimicke said.

“The prospects for a negotiated peace in Ukraine are bleak,” V. Page Fortna of the Saltzman Institute co-authors in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage.

"Unless the Biden administration is willing to assume a more forceful posture, the outcome of the conflict could be devastating not only for Ukrainian sovereignty but for America’s global leadership, which is now linked to the fate of Ukraine," says Stuart Gottlieb.