The Winter War
After months of fighting and a hasty Russian retreat, Ukraine’s armed forces liberated the southern city of Kherson last week, scoring a major strategic and symbolic victory. Continue reading
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The Cartoon Villain
As he invades and menaces his neighbors; and trolls and threatens the West, Vladimir Putin has often been compared to a cartoonish villain – an image he appears to embrace, cultivate, and relish. Continue reading
Toward a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
What will it take to rebuild Ukraine when the war is over? Continue reading
Threats, Lies, and Dirty Bombs
As Ukrainian troops move on the strategically vital city of Kherson in the south, alarms are sounding that Russia may detonate a dirty bomb – and blame it on Kyiv as part of a false flag operation. Meanwhile, with midterm elections fast approaching in the United States, cracks are beginning to appear in the Congress about U.S. support for Ukraine. Continue reading
The Ukraine War Escalates
Ukraine strikes the only bridge linking the annexed Crimean peninsula to Russia, scoring a key strategic and symbolic victory after a month of victories on the battlefields in the east and the south. Continue reading
Ukraine Strikes Back
Vladimir Putin’s Russia may just be the first country in history to claim to be annexing another country’s territory even as its own troops were simultaneously and hastily retreating from that very territory. Continue reading
War, Mobilization, and Blowback
Vladimir Putin’s mobilization runs into a snag as Russians take to the streets and draft-age men flee the country in massive numbers. Continue reading
The War After Kharkiv
A stunningly successful Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast in the northeast liberated an estimated 3,800 square kilometers of territory, an area roughly the size of the US state of Rhode Island, in just two days as the Russian front line crumbled and troops retreated. Continue reading
Putin’s Energy War
As Ukraine launches a fresh offensive to retake Russian-occupied lands in the south, another struggle is taking shape that will likely be as consequential as what happens on the battlefield. And that is the energy war. Continue reading
Ukraine’s Guns of August
August 2022 may go down in history as the month Ukraine took the war to Russia and challenged Moscow’s dominance over the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula. Continue reading