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President Obama spoke in Estonia about the need for NATO to defend its member states, many of whom are wary of Russian incursions similar to what has occurred in the Ukrainian theater. (Associated Press)

Obama: Ukrainian military needs NATO backing

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama holds a bobblehead doll of himself in the Outer Oval Office, May 14, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Obama underestimated Islamic State, misread motives of Putin, Assad: critics

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Obama traveled last year to Estonia, where he tried to reassure NATO members of the alliance's promise to defend against Russian aggression under President Vladimir Putin. (Associated Press)

Obama travels to Estonia to reassure nervous Baltic leaders

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE In this file photo taken on Friday, Aug. 29, 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media during his and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after their talks in Moscow, Russia . Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov urged those holding a new round of talks Monday on easing Ukraine’s crisis to push for a cease-fire between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Pro-Russian rebels lower demands in peace talks

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 17, 2014, file photo,. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.J., gestures as she speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Menendez threatened Thursday, July 24, to block U.S. arms sales to Iraq if Congress doesn't get an assessment of Iraqi forces and assurances the weapons won't fall into the hands of extremist militants.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Robert Menendez: Russia has launched a direct attack on Ukraine

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Obama will leave Washington on Tuesday for Estonia, the tiny Baltic country bordering Russia that left the Soviet Union and joined the 28-nation military bloc in 2004. (Associated Press)

Obama seeks to reassure jittery NATO members after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

HUMPHRIES: The Liberal Bully of the Week

By Rusty Humphries - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Russian fund with US advisers eludes sanctions

By JEFF HORWITZ and STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with participants in the youth educational forum at the Seliger youth camp near Lake Seliger, some 450 kilometres (281 miles) northwest of Moscow, in Tver region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on pro-Russian separatists to release Ukrainian soldiers who have been surrounded by the rebels in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin: ‘I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with participants in the youth educational forum at the Seliger youth camp near Lake Seliger, some 450 kilometres (281 miles) northwest of Moscow, in Tver region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on pro-Russian separatists to release Ukrainian soldiers who have been surrounded by the rebels in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Rep. Devin Nunes: The bear out there

By Rep. Devin Nunes

A camouflaged pro-Russian tank seen in the town of Novoazovsk, in eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pro-Russia separatists take firm control of coastal town of Novoazovsk

Associated Press

HUMPHRIES: The liberal bully of the week is … Vladimir Putin

Napoleon Obamapart Illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

HANSON: Obama fails history 101

By Victor Davis Hanson

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after his talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Following Putin and Poroshenko's meetings that included a one-on-one session that stretched into the night, there was no indication of a quick end to the fighting that has engulfed eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

VANNESS: Russia’s energy hegemony

By Alex VanNess

Tourists rest on the Black Sea beach in Yalta, Crimea. Last year the peninsula saw 5.9 million tourists. This summer only about 300,000 visited. (Associated Press)

Tourism suffers in Crimea as Ukraine shuns breakaway region

By Olga Rudenko — Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on Obama's disconnection from the seriousness of the Islamist threat by Alexander Hunter/The Washington times

ALLARD: A myopic foreign-policy dip in shark-infested waters

By Ken Allard

Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev announces sanctions at the Cabinet meeting in Moscow on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.The Russian government has banned all imports of meat, fish, milk and milk products and fruit and vegetables from the United States, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Thursday. The move was taken on orders from President Vladimir Putin in response to sanctions imposed on Russia by the West over the crisis in Ukraine. The ban has been introduced for one year. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service)

Putin retaliates: Russia bans food from West, extends Snowden asylum

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: West shouldn’t pander to Putin

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on the lack of effective U.S.foreign policy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CARSON: Rudderless U.S. foreign policy

By Ben S. Carson