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Key Points and Summary – The piece uses a Ukrainian cross-country skier’s refusal to speak with Russians—calling them “terrorists”—as a blunt window into why...
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Key Points and Summary – The piece uses a Ukrainian cross-country skier’s refusal to speak with Russians—calling them “terrorists”—as a blunt window into why...
Synopsis – The piece argues that Vladimir Putin’s record—mass violence, repression, and open imperial intent—makes it implausible that a U.S. president could genuinely believe...
Now that the United States and Ukraine have agreed on a ceasefire, the ball is, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, supposedly in...
Who’s responsible for the televised blow-up between Donald Trump and JD Vance on the one hand and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky on the other? The...
Forget the hoopla, the verbiage, the smiles, and the insults surrounding the Trump administration’s recent statements about Ukraine and meetings with the Russians. Focus...
It’s been a really bad few weeks for Russia. On December 26, Finnish authorities boarded a Russian ship suspected of sabotaging an undersea electricity...
On December 17, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of...
Put simply, Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine cannot and will not end as long as the Kremlin’s self-elected president, Vladimir Putin, remains in power.
In effect, Putin has clarified just how he sees Ukraine’s choices: it can either self-destruct by accepting his terms, or it can continue to...
Russia’s self-elected president Vladimir Putin has started a purge of the army at the same time that his country is embroiled in a savage...