Shadows of 1795

Proposals for a Ukraine peace deal that reward Russian aggression and do nothing to protect it from further attacks smack of deals and treaties in previous eras which did nothing to prevent further conflagrations.

Wake up, Europe!

Europe should wake up to the threat posed by Russia by uniting in defence of Ukraine and facing down the school bully of Vladimir Putin, rather than use the vacillations of Donald Trump as an excuse for continued apathy.

Ukraine’s harshest winter

Donald Trump’s ‘peace plan’ would reward Russian aggression and emasculate and isolate Ukraine, allowing another Russian attack to absorb the country with little resistance in the future.

Brains v brutality

The brute force nature of Russia’s assault and the West’s refusal to supply the number and quality of weapons required to defeat Putin’s forces has forced Ukraine to improvise a range of innovative ways to protect itself and strike back.

Putin does not want peace

Despite the recent peace talks, Putin continues to attack Ukraine and murder its citizens in their homes and will not stop the war until he has achieved his goal of imperial expansion.

Peace in our time?

“Peace in our time” said Neville Chamberlain on his return from Germany in late September 1938 after signing the Munich Agreement that effectively handed Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. The circumstances of this “deal” are uncannily like those that Ukraine confronts today.

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.

Ukraine’s nuclear regret

Ukraine bargained away its nuclear weapons in the 1990s in returns for security guarantees from Russia and the West which both sides have broken, leaving Ukraine at the mercy of Vladimir Putin.

Fighting online for Ukraine

Despite the apathy of the major platforms and an American President in the pocket of Vladimir Putin, an army of online bloggers are combating Russian’s propaganda war to support Ukraine.

Standing for democracy in an age of rising authoritarianism

On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, the fight for Ukraine’s future continues. But so too does another battle: a battle over the direction of the world’s liberal democracies, their institutions and the fragile trust that underpins them.

Made in Ukraine

Western companies and entrepreneurs should invest in the thriving and innovative Ukrainian defence tech industry and take its experience back to their home markets.

Lessons for Ukraine

As representatives of the United States and Russia hold talks on the terms for peace between Ukraine and Russia without inviting Ukraine to participate as its own fate is decided, it is worth drawing parallels with the Irish settlement in 1921.