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WBUR | "It's startling the change in public outlook in these countries," Wess Mitchell, former assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, says. "And the calculation is that if they don't come into NATO, they're worried that they could be a tempting target."..........
Foreign Affairs | While neutrality would carry risks, it need not be a death sentence for Ukraine. It may, in fact, be the best possible outcome, given where things stand after more than three weeks of war..........
The National Interest | The quickest way to motivate Xi Jinping to invade Taiwan would be to fail to deal decisively with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine..............
Foreign Policy | Security will require painful trade-offs Western governments may not be ready to make.............
Time Magazine | In Ukraine, we have an opportunity to return the favor but in aid to a brutally besieged people whose cause could not be more just............
Limes | Former assistant secretary of state Wess Mitchell sits down with Italian geopolitical magazine, Limes...........
Echo24 | nder Donald Trump, Wess Mitchell was the top official in Europe at the State Department. Today, he works in a think-tank that profiles itself on the turn to Asia. But now war has broken out in Europe in the terrain he knows........
Sveriges Radio | The defense alliance has been tested, but after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO countries have stood shoulder to shoulder. Wess Mitchell joins Sweden's national public radio........
Foreign Policy | The impending Russian invasion of Ukraine offers an unexpected opportunity for the United States to deal decisively with Russia in a way that also advances U.S. strategic objectives in Asia........
Sky News | Russia-Ukraine tensions have "the potential to escalate into a global security crisis... of the kind we haven't seen in many decades", says Dr. Wess Mitchell, former Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs........