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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.
Military innovations in the current Middle East conflict are changing the nature of warfare and are likely to be widely copied around the world in the future.
Russia, Iran, and the failure of US resolve.
If the United States abandons Europe, Beijing will be more emboldened than ever.
The notion that Ukraine is a hopeless cause has been dramatically refuted by the audacious incursion into the Kursk Oblast.
Only when we understand the fragility of liberal democracy will we be properly motivated to defend it.
Realists may believe international relations is all about mindless forces balancing and smashing into each other, but it’s actually about ideology, institutions, history, and the personalities of human beings.