UKRAINIAN GLORY

Looks Like Putin is Cooling his Nuclear Threats

UnderstandingWar.com reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s continued fixation on the Russian “Oreshnik” ballistic missile and Russia’s non-nuclear deterrents suggests that the Kremlin may be searching for off-ramps from its continued...

Will the war on Ukraine escalate? Or end?

Christopher S Chivvis, a senior fellow and director of the Carnegie Endowment’s American statecraft program, at The Guardian asks whether the war on Ukraine will escalate or end.  Excerpt: To be sure, how Trump’s plans to end the war are still murky. A reasonable...

The Stalemate

Tim Judah at The New York Review of Books provides a sobering view of the mutually lethal stalemate between Putin’s forces and Ukraine’s. Excerpt: In the past, and especially after Ukraine triumphantly drove back the Russians from Kyiv, Kherson, and the...