UKRAINIAN GLORY

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...

On the death spiral of the Russian “Potemkin Village” economy.

Chris Snow, at Medium, on the death spiral of the Russian “Potemkin Village” economy.  Excerpt: The collapse of the Russian Potemkin village economy is accelerating, the Ruble is collapsing, and Dr. Steve Hanke states that inflation is 4 higher than the...