Alaska was not diplomacy. It was surrender. The summit was never about peace. It was theater. Vladimir Putin arrived with demands, staged his photo beside the American president, and walked away with the optics of victory: the red carpet, the…
TODAY'S RUSSIA IS FASCIST. IT’S TIME TO START CALLING IT THAT
by The Kyiv Independent Editorial April 26, 2023 “We went and killed everyone. There were women, men, seniors, and children.” These were the words of Azamat Uldarov, an ex-fighter of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group who personally admitted to shooting…
DEAR ILLUSTRIOUS PROFESSORS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: STOP. TALKING. ABOUT. UKRAINE. SERIOUSLY, IT'S TIME TO SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP.
NEIL A. ABRAMS APR 24, 2023 Read the Detox Are you a venerated scholar in the field of international relations? Do you feel compelled to publish an article about Russia’s war on Ukraine? To bring your decades of experience…
What ukraine means
By George Weigel First Things May 2023 On February 24, 2022, something considered so unlikely in the twenty-first century as to be almost unimaginable happened: A large European state mounted a full-scale, full-spectrum invasion of another large European state. The…
Budanov: “we’re approaching a landmark battle in ukraine’s contemporary history”
In an interview with RBK-Ukraine, the chief of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry’s intelligence said that the current pace of Western weaponry supply does not make him revise his earlier projection – the turning-point battle before the end of this war will…
RUSSIA'S OCCUPATION STRATEGY — THE BIGGEST LONG-TERM THREAT TO UKRAINE'S STABILITY
March 23, 2023 by Maryna Venneri MEI Russia has wielded ethnicity as a weapon repeatedly in its history. The authorities have deliberately employed unlawful occupations, annexations, deportations, filtration, and ethnic dilution through an influx of Russian settlers to control and…
FAR-LEFT CANADIANS SUSCEPTIBLE TO RUSSIAN INFLUENCE TOO
Researchers found that on Twitter, members of Canada’s far left joined those on the far right in embracing pro-Russian messages created by a two-year Russian influence campaign. By Ian Austen April 1, 2023 The New York Times While…
UKRAINE SHOULD—AND, PROPERLY SUPPORTED, CAN — SEIZE CRIMEA, ARGUES BEN HODGES
The Economist 29 Jan 2023 IT IS ALMOST one year since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. In that time thousands of innocent civilians, as well as soldiers from both sides, have been killed. Towns and cities have crumbled under Russian…
HOW TO GET A BREAKTHROUGH IN UKRAINE: THE CASE AGAINST INCREMENTALISM
By Michael McFaul January 30, 2023 Foreign Affairs Nearly a year after he invaded Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has failed to achieve any of his major objectives. He has not unified the alleged single Slavic nation, he has not…
TO HELP UKRAINE WIN, NATO MUST ERASE SELF-IMPOSED RED LINES
By FRIDRIK JONSSON and ERLINGUR ERLINGSSON. The Hill With less than two months until the anniversary of the Russian reinvasion of Ukraine, it is time to take a strategic view of the continued Western response and the path to a…
A RUSSIAN “FISHING” STRIKE AND UKRAINIAN MISSILES
A recent attempt by the West to “confine” to Ukraine the current Russian aggression came with a missile strike (15 November 2022). NATO’s official assessment of this “incident” was: “Missile landing [in Poland] was not a ‘deliberate’ Russian attack.” It…
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