Al Jazeera reports: Ukrainian military successes and Russian narratives clashed this week, as Moscow’s assertion of inevitable victory flew in the face of facts on the ground. Ukraine steadily took back control of almost all of its northern city of Kupiansk...
Niall Ferguson, at Time, provides a magisterial assessment of the likely end of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the aftermath. … How many concessions should Ukraine have to make to secure an end to the hostilities? And what will it take to persuade Putin...
John T Psaropoulos at Al Jazeera calls out Putin’s increasing belligerence: Russia this week rejected the latest United States peace proposal for Ukraine and declared victory in battles over key Ukrainian cities – claims Ukraine has dismissed as propaganda....
Putin and Trump, public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Writing at the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins says that it “will take a lot more than what Donald Trump is doing to convince Putin that it is in his best interest to stop.” … Wouldn’t it be...
Business Insider reports the plunge in Russia’s oil revenues when Russia can least afford it, just as US sanctions hit: Russia’s vital oil and gas revenues tumbled 27% in October from a year earlier, data from the Finance Ministry show — a sharp blow to...
