The paranoid style of Putin’s politics

Russian propagandists – and their western apologists – claim that Putin’s calamitous invasion of Ukraine was forced by NATO expansion, but the truth is the only threat to peace in Europe is Russia itself.

Listen to Ukraine, not apologists for Russia

Many Western commentators still go out of their way to excuse Russia’s aggression and ignore the right of Ukraine and Eastern Europe to live in peace, freedom and democracy.

Putin’s history is bunk

Putin’s skewed view of Russia’s history reflects his regime’s embrace of a form of crude, reactionary ethnic nationalism that emphasises ethnicity, hierarchy and autocracy.