March 19, 2026 Diane Francis On February 28, 2025, Donald Trump infamously told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office that he “had no cards”. But that wasn’t true then, and certainly isn’t true now. A year later, on…
Forged in Will, Not in Bronze
First Person By Bohdan Cherniawski August 24, 2025 At Queen’s Park, a weathered Crimean War cannon stood as Ukraine’s flag was raised — a reminder that what prevails is not metal but resolve. I stood at Queen’s Park on a…
Peter Dickinson: A strong Ukraine is the only realistic security guarantee against Russia
August 22,2025 by Peter Dickinson, UK journalist and researcher, editor of Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert service and publisher of Business Ukraine Magazine and Lviv Today magazine Source: Atlantic Council Western leaders were in upbeat mood on Monday evening following their unprecedented…
Nationalism in the Linguistic Fog
by Mirko Petriw As the number of dead and severely wounded in the Russian – Ukrainian war surpasses by far a million souls; as the body count in the latest Israeli – Palestinian war hits five digits; as China threatens…
A Bad Day for Ukraine – A Sad Day for America
By Askold Lozynskyj I could not imagine a more substance depleted and yet very revealing summit than Alaska 2025. The sycophancy was dramatic and the stakes were monumental because hundreds of thousands of human lives were at stake. A convicted…
A Repeat of Munich
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…
A Summit Without Ukraine Is a Rehearsal for Betrayal
Stagecraft abroad cannot erase conquest at home. By Bohdan Cherniawski | August 15th 2025 The Alaska summit looked like a breakthrough—for Russia. The United States and Moscow sat down to discuss Europe’s security, while Ukraine was left outside the room….
The Deal
By Lubomyr Luciuk Aug 13, 2025 Maybe he should start looking for a new job. As Alaska’s governor, Mike Dunleavy has been a great booster for President Donald Trump. That could change. Twice, just recently, his dear leader proclaimed, “I’m…
Landsbergis: The shameful plan to betray Ukraine “de facto, but not de jure”
August 13,2025 by Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Lithuania Source: Substack If Ukraine has no choice but to accept “de facto” occupation — that’s because WE failed. Not because Ukrainians failed, not because some mysterious “shit happened”, but…
How a River Became a Weapon
The destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam, told through an American lens, reveals the scale of a catastrophe that drowned towns, poisoned fields, and forever altered a nation’s farming heartland—and asks what it would look like if it happened here. By…
The Art of the Deal
Askold Lozynskyj Fifty-five year old Marco Rubio appears to be consistently duped by his elder counterpart seventy-five year old Sergei Lavrov who has been at Putin’s side for over twenty years. Fealty is as important to Putin as it is…