"The administration will have less leeway to act than before, but we can expect the United States to remain an active player in the world," Elizabeth Shackelford writes.
Despite economic hardship or scares from the missile in Poland, "It really isn't up to us to tell the Ukrainians how it ends," Council President Ivo Daalder tells Geeta Guru-murthy on BBC World News.
As officials work to learn what happened inside the NATO territory of Poland after reports of a Russian missile hit, Ivo Daalder weighs in on Meet the Press.
Paul Poast looks at last week's midterm results and analyzes the key reasons why those results will shape US foreign policy and global affairs in general.