The Daily Beast reports on what it calls Russia’s dumbest propaganda fail since the invasion of Ukraine. Excerpt: Russia’s Foreign Ministry has created what may go down in history as their worst propaganda fail since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine kicked...
Nina Shea at The National Review (full article paywalled) observes: The thoroughly politicized Moscow Orthodox Patriarchate has been instrumental in supporting Russia’s unjust war. Just before Christmas, the Ukrainian government added Orthodox patriarch Kirill of...
Wallace Lee at Quora reveals Russia’s military weakness and effort to gaslight the West into withdrawing aid to Ukraine. Excerpt: Since Putin can’t win his war in Ukraine, Putin’s one and only objective in this war is to persuade the west that helping Ukraine...
Vox reports that Putin’s proposed Christmas “cease fire” was a cynical propaganda exercise. Excerpt: Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a 36-hour unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine, timed for the Orthodox Christmas, a move that at least one...
A classic study of guerrilla warfare The New York Times reports that Ukraine is intensifying its use of guerrilla tactics. Excerpt: The saboteurs managed to place four explosives on a Russian freight train carrying diesel and jet fuel, roughly 3,000 miles from the...