By Askold Lozynskyj The Munich Security Conference 2026 was hardly a revelation. Rather it was an affirmation of reality. This fact was apparent in opening remarks by the host, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor did not lament the loss…
What Happens to Russia’s Ethnic Minorities After the War?
Mistreatment, exploitation, and Russia’s own history suggest a precarious postwar future. By David Kirichenko and Alexander J. Motyl November 28, 2025 FP Russia is waging war not only against Ukraine but also against some of its own people. At the…
How America became the world’s most corrupt quasi democracy
Askold Lozynskyj For purposes of disclosure which is really unnecessary since anyone who has read any of my commentaries knows that I am quite embarrassed that a primitive con man heads the country of my citizenship. I recall a rather…
Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption System, the Legacy of Russian Colonialism, and the Calculated Pressure of a Corrupt American Administration
RKSL The Frontline Nov 28, 2025 The raid on Andriy Yermak’s home and his resignation from office have drawn understandable attention, yet their real significance lies not in the fate of Zelensky’s closest adviser or the deliberate speculation surrounding Zelensky…
Steve Witless
DIANE FRANCIS November 27, 2025 Steve Witkoff is a real estate developer and a pal of President Donald Trump. Both men have done extensive business with Russian oligarchs over the years, so in October, Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner,…
A Trumpian “Peace In Our Time” – The Ten Commandments Redux
By Lubomyr Luciuk Nov 22, 2025 Like most North Americans, I’m neither a billionaire nor a real estate developer, and I’ve never met Donald Trump. But I do follow the news, and I’ve read the “28-point peace plan” that his…
Signs That Russia is Collapsing
DIANE FRANCIS The salient developments suggesting collapse are as follows: Russia’s oil revenues are down 27% due to the effectiveness of sanctions and intense bombing by Ukraine of its refineries and other oil facilities. Petroleum exports finance the war. Ukraine…
A Long and Winding Road
Lubomyr Luciuk Nov 17, 2025 It’s not exactly a yellow brick road. The journey to the other side begins when you step off a nondescript curb and onto a pathway of concrete paving stones, light grey in colour. Soon, a…
Russia’s Achilles’ Heel
November 10, 2025 Diane Francis The air war in Ukraine and Russia escalates, the ground war stalls, and allies are in disarray. Trump reconsiders giving Ukraine Tomahawk missiles to bomb inside Russia, then exempts Putin’s ally, and biggest oil buyer,…
My Personal Encounter With Russian Cyber Hacking
Askold Lozynskyj Nov 8, 2025 This threat is as prevalent as feared. Anyone involved in any activity considered by the Russians to be inimical to their interests is potentially a target. My own experience with Russia is longstanding and very…
Exhumations: For Everything There Is A Season
Lubomyr Luciuk Nov 1, 2025 I don’t like surprises. So, when, on my first day in Peremyshyl, I was told I was going to be taken for a ride out in the countryside, I felt a twinge of apprehension. “Where…