John Stevens, posting at Quora Russia already lost, it has not achieved any of its military goals and barely controls any important part of Ukraine. Support in Europe is stronger for Ukraine at anytime since 2014. NATO is stronger in Europe(Finland and Sweden as new...
Understanding why Putin invaded Ukraine and Russia’s fragile state can help accelerate Russia’s ending of hostilities. Chris Snow, at Medium, on the rise and fall of the Soviet Empire (Part 1, Glory Blog part 3), provides enough revelations for more than...
MJ at Quora: Yesterday, the leaders of France, Germany, Poland, and the UK gathered in a room with Zelensky. They then made an unscheduled phone call to Trump. In that call, they disclosed a plan to give Putin an ultimatum: agree to a 30-day ceasefire and begin...
Meidas+ reprises an essay by Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko. ‘ ‘From time to time, I have shared things from him in my daily Bulletins on politics. But he just made a post on social media where he reflected on how far Ukraine’s people and culture...
Stamp of Ukraine courtesy of Wikipedia, public domain Cultural critic Chris Snow, at Medium, concludes a long meditation on the implications of the dramatic slowing of re-provisioning the front with Russian federation tanks and other war materiel: Russia has been...