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...
Al Jazeera reports: Leaders of the G7 alliance have reaffirmed support for Ukraine “for as long as it takes” as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he wants to end the war through talks next year. The Ukrainian president said in a radio interview aired on Saturday that...
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...
Foreign Policy reveals that “Russia Can’t Keep Spending Like This for Long.” Excerpt (full column paywalled): By Agathe Demarais, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a senior policy fellow on geoeconomics at the European Council on Foreign...
Chris Snow, at Medium, exposes the extreme fragility of the Russian Federation economy. Excerpt: The international purchasing power of Russia has heavily decreased in the past 10 years. Once we adjust the Russian GDP growth figures with the lower rubble, we...
