A collection of 57 posts
The latest Russian “peace proposal” is a set of demands designed to enable a complete Russian takeover of Ukraine, which would otherwise be impossible to achieve.
Putin’s fixation on Ukraine is eroding his empire.
An interview with Francis Fukuyama.
The post-11 September wars set in motion political forces that constrained and undermined American power at the moment it was needed most.
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Alexander Vindman’s bracing new book argues that Ukraine has been made to suffer the consequences of Western naivety and restraint.
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?
The strong will do what they can and the weak will suffer what they must.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.
After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.
America just switched sides in the Ukraine war.
European leaders are struggling to cope with the multiple crises now facing the beleaguered continent.
The president-elect’s arrival in the White House will likely galvanise the European New Right and doom the Ukrainian resistance.