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...
Per virtuoso blogger Chris Snow at Medium, Russia Plays Ruble Roulettenas their currency slides into the trash bin of history: Putin’s Russia will collapse, and only very few manage to see beyond the veil. Russia lies, but when you know where to look, then their...
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...
NDTV reports on the 1000th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Excerpt: Kyiv, Ukraine: The war between Russia and Ukraine, the deadliest conflict Europe has seen since the World War II, marks its 1,000th day today. Over one million people have reportedly either...
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...