Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Friday, April 19, 2024

Yaroslav Trofimov, Our Enemies Will Vanish

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At Amazon, Yaroslav Trofimov, Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence . #CommissionEarned
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Russia Retakes Bakhmut (VIDEO)

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At the Wall Street Journal , " Bakhmut Is Largely Under Russian Control, Says Ukrainian General ": Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy say...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Luke Harding, Invasion

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At Amazon, Luke Harding, Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival .
Thursday, March 9, 2023

Has Ukraine Exposed the Russian Military as a Paper Tiger?

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At the National Interest , " While Russia may have large amounts of Cold War hardware, the military's performance in Ukraine indica...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Dubious Alliances: Germany’s New Peace Movement Has Some Explaining to Do

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At Der Spiegel , " Putin’s war in Ukraine is unsettling many in Germany. A new peace movement is forming in the country, but it is stir...

Epic Tank Battles in Ukraine

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Interesting piece. At the New York Times , " In an Epic Battle of Tanks, Russia Was Routed, Repeating Earlier Mistakes ": A three-...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The Conversation About Ukraine Is Cracking Apart

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From Stephen Walt, at Foreign Policy , " What government officials are saying in public, and private, is fascinating—and full of contra...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The War Is Right And Just. But Is It Prudent?

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From Andrew Sullivan, " A year later, the end-game of the war in Ukraine is dangerously murky ": There are so many ways in which t...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Tank Deliveries Could Mark Turning Point in War

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I'm interested to see how this plays out.  At Der Spiegel , " There is enormous relief in Kyiv that, after months of hesitation, th...

Putin’s Plot Against America

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It's Julia Ioffe, at Puck, " There is a growing fear in Washington that Russia will resort to hybrid tactics to inflict pain on Wes...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Perpetually Irrational Ukraine Debate

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From hardcore neorealist, Stephen Walt, of Harvard's Kennedy School, at Foreign Policy , " The war continues to be discussed in way...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Crimea Bridge Explosion Disrupts Crucial Supply Route for Russian Forces (VIDEO)

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At the video, just after 10 seconds, the car was spared a direct hit, but the blast-shrapnel ignited the gas tank and blew up the vehicle. P...
Monday, October 3, 2022

The Tories' Weird Incoherent Collapse

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She's backtracking on her supply-side economic policy reforms. Not good for so new a prime minister.  More from Andrew Sullivan, "...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Giorgia Meloni's Election Victory: What the Rightward Shift Means for Italy

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At Der Spiegel , " Right-wing radical politician Giorgia Meloni appears poised to govern Italy with an absolute majority after Sunday&#...

Russia’s Mobilization, Plunging Oil Prices Weaken Putin’s Economic Hand

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At the Wall Street Journal , " Economic storm clouds come as Russian president orders more financial resources directed at war in Ukrai...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Italy Votes Decisively for Nationalist-Right Coalition (VIDEO)

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At the Economist , " Giorgia Meloni of the Brothers of Italy is set to be the country’s first female prime minister ": It would be...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Louise Mensch on Putin's War

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From September 16th, on Twitter : 1/ I don’t think this war, or Putin, are going to make it to next summer. in case you haven’t been paying...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

'A Brutal, Needless War ... Chosen by One Man': Biden, at United Nations, Slams Putin's Invasion of Ukraine (VIDEO)

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Following-up, " Putin Orders Draft of Reservists for War in Ukraine, Threatens Nuclear Response ." At the Los Angeles Times , &quo...

Putin Orders Draft of Reservists for War in Ukraine, Threatens Nuclear Response

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A big day in great power politics. At the Wall Street Journal , " The Russian president’s move sought to bolster his faltering military...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Russia’s Battered Army Has No Quick Fix in Ukraine (VIDEO)

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 At the Wall Street Journal , " Kyiv’s counterattack tests Moscow’s forces and raises stakes for Kremlin at home ": Russian forces...