Reading Time: 5 minutes With the anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia War looming next month, the war is at perhaps its most attritional, most horrific, most heart-breaking. The loss of life there need never have happened. Assuming he survives this war, Vladimir Putin will one day have a lot to answer for. In a court. In The Hague. Russian propagandists […]
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How do a conservative Christian and a liberal atheist agree on Ukraine?
Reading Time: 7 minutes A conservative Christian and a liberal atheist walk into a…YouTube interview and discuss their agreement on Ukraine. You could be forgiven for thinking there is little scope for agreement, but you would be wrong. How have they both arrived at the same destination—hosting YouTube channels giving daily geopolitical analyses of the War in Ukraine, with […]
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He shouted too early: The impotence of Putin
Reading Time: 4 minutes The war in Ukraine is just about to have its terrible ten-month anniversary with no immediate end in sight. But even though it is not going to end in the coming weeks (absent a “black swan” event of Putin dying suddenly), there is still no chance of the Russian leader eking out a win. There […]
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Brittney Griner’s deepening nightmare
Reading Time: 3 minutes WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained and imprisoned in Moscow earlier this year for having less than a gram of cannabis oil. She is now being transferred to a penal colony, where prisoners are placed in barracks and are forced to perform daily hard labor. Griner was initially detained in February. In July, she went […]
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Elon Musk invades Russia in the winter
Reading Time: 2 minutes Moscow, Russia – Elon Musk first bought Twitter, a social media platform that was bleeding money, at a premium. His next move was predictable: He invaded Russia in the winter. As he looks out at the burnt-out shell of Russia’s capital city he wonders Who can I blame for this? Because I know it isn’t […]
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Can Ukraine find meaning in Russia’s murderous invasion?
Reading Time: 4 minutes After Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s occupation of Austria in 1938 and shortly before the United States entered World War II three years later, Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist, noticed a piece of marble lying on a table at his parents’ home in Vienna. His father explained that he had rescued the artifact […]
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Biden: We are facing the ‘prospect of Armageddon’
Reading Time: 4 minutes The world has been perilously close to an apocalypse on a number of occasions. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is one of the most famous. It actually involved several examples, with the closest being when the Soviet submarine B-59 surfaced after a US warship had been dropping practice depth charges. The submarine, incommunicado, believed […]
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Can Putin, locked in a bubble of bad intel, spin his way out of disaster?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Colonel General Gennady Zhidko is being reappointed to command Russia’s Eastern Military District. One pro-Russian Telegram user has claimed that the general and others have created “a wall of lies…a sea of blood and a swamp of corpses.” That wall of lies has for many months encircled the Kremlin. Yet, in the world of geopolitics, […]
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The Kharkiv offensive: A turning point in the war
Reading Time: 11 minutes Quite often, nothing really happens in wars where there are deadly stalemates for weeks on end. And then, everything happens all at once. This last week, everything has been happening all at once in the Russia-Ukraine War. To understand what has taken place and how a lightning counteroffensive was planned and executed, we need to […]
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Russian losses put Ukraine conflict in complex territory
Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the weekend, Ukrainian forces made huge gains in a counterattack that ousted Russian forces from a sizable portion of the Kharkiv region, in some places going as far as the Russian border, and reclaiming key supply depots like Izyum and Kupiansk. Tracts of this territory had been in Russian control since the invasion began […]