Two years ago, I outlined eight lessons from the Ukraine War. Though I warned that it was too early to be confident about any predictions, they have held up reasonably well. When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered …
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Three months ago, I wrote a column titled ‘Will Ukraine Survive?’ The answer (thankfully) for the next year is ‘yes,’ owing to Ukraine’s willingness to fight and sacrifice and the resumption of substantial US military …
The days of Europe buying its energy from Russia, outsourcing its businesses to China, and relying on the United States for its security are over. The European Union is only mortal and could very well …
The news this month must have been met with relief in Kyiv and grief in the Kremlin. The US Congress finally broke its six-month logjam and approved a new package of military aid for Ukraine …
The European Union’s spending rules and public-procurement processes are plainly inadequate to the threat posed by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. If the World War II Allies had been subject to such strictures, they would …
In the coming weeks, a flood of analysis can be expected marking the end of the second year of war in Ukraine. In fact, the war began 10 years ago when Russia seized Crimea …
Western leaders are well aware of the dangers of a Russian victory in Ukraine. ‘When dictators and autocrats are allowed to run roughshod in Europe,’ US President Joe Biden recently observed, ‘the risk rises that …
In his annual press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear that he will be ready for a peace settlement with Ukraine only after he has achieved his goals, which haven’t changed since he …
In recent weeks, US President Joe Biden has boldly referred to the United States as the world’s ‘indispensable nation’. But when the term was first coined—by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in the 1990s—the world was a …
The timing and nature of a negotiated peace, or truce, in Ukraine are the subject of uncertainty and speculation. Adding to the uncertainty is the question of how to sustain peace if it were achieved. …
There’s been plenty of debate about why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine never devolved into the full-blown cyber Armageddon many expected at the start of the war, and what that suggests about the role of cyber …
Civil defence has been crucial to Ukraine’s survival since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Russian aggressors in Ukraine have already killed, injured, raped and robbed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, displaced …