Ukraine strikes back by looking forward

Ukraine’s stunning success in destroying dozens of Russian bombers on the ground with cheap drones exemplifies the way in which it has fought off Russia’s traditional human wave tactics with intelligence and creativity.

Two peas from the same pod

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump appear to share the same goal of eviscerating Ukraine as part of their broader plan to make the world safe for their personal brands of naked imperialism and thuggish autocracy.

Betrayal

Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald Trump’s America?

Ukraine strikes back

Ukraine’s surprise attack on Kursk has taken more Russian territory in a week than the Russians have gained in a year, and proves the Ukraine can win the war if given the weapons and permissions it needs to defeat Vladimir Putin.

A sham election in a hollow state

Having murdered or imprisoned anyone who dared stand up to his murderous rule, Vladimir Putin will install himself for yet another term as Russian President this weekend, driving his country ever further down a dark road of repression, aggression and decay.

A tough year ahead for Ukraine

Europe is finally beginning to wake up to the reality a Trump-led US could abandon NATO, in addition to Ukraine, but whether European nations are able to overcome their institutional inertia and webs of entangled interests to stoutly resist Russia on their own remains an open question.

Stand with Ukraine

Violence in the Middle East has overshadowed Ukraine’s triumph in crossing the mighty Dnipro river to liberate areas occupied by Russian invaders for a year and a half. This is not the time for the West to get bored or distracted, or, even worse, re-elect the unspeakably awful Putin supporting Donald Trump.

Ouroboros

The only surprise about Prigozhin’s death is that Vladimir Putin took two months to murder him, but as the brutal Russian regime turns on itself, it’s only a matter of time before Putin himself suffers a similar fate.

How Putin ruined Russia

While most of Eastern Europe sloughed off Soviet domination to embrace freedom and prosperity, Russia has collapsed back into a new dark age under the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin.

The world’s weakest strong man

The weekend’s farcical events in Russia suggest that the political end for an increasingly rattled Vladimir Putin is approaching fast.

Give Ukraine the jets it needs to win

15 months after Russia’s invasion, the West remains curiously and shamefully reluctant to give Ukraine the fighter jets it needs to reclaim its own airspace and drive out the invaders.

Thug life

Vladimir Putin’s search for scapegoats for his humiliating failure to subdue Ukraine risks sparking a civil war with the brutal mercenary gang he has relied upon to do his dirty work.