Brian's unique explorations of the war and the historical context and events leading up to Russia's current assault against Ukraine
(Russian/Русский перевод) Brian's Ukraine journalism has been praised by: Mykhailo Podolyak, a top advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky; Scott Shane, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times and Baltimore Sun journalist (featured in HBO's The Wire, playing himself); Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), one of the only Republicans to stand up to Trump and member of the January 6th Committee; and Orwell Prize-winning journalist Jenni Russell, among others. His analysis of Ukraine has been featured by Newsweek, Real Clear Defense, Small Wars Journal, Byline Times, the Arabic television stations Alghad TV and Alaraby TV (including my debate with former major Putin advisor, Kremlin insider, and Duma lawmaker Sergei Markov), interviews for the the French news site Atlantico, the German news site Buzzard, Indian Strategic Studies, the and the Ministry of Defense of Brazil.
Over two decades, Brian has majored in Russian history, studied Russia's war against Georgia in graduate school, and covered Russia and its foreign policy as a journalist, including writing for the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) from 2015-2017 as one of the most popular guest scholar contributors until he was censored for his post on Prevezon's corrupt work for the Kremlin. Since 2014, he has covered Russia's longstanding campaign to dominate Ukraine and turn it into a de facto vassal, including the historical context of Russia's 2014 military aggression against Ukraine in Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk; The (First) Russo-American Cyberwar's 2016 U.S. presidential election interference, a central aim of which was to further the Kremlin's Ukraine campaign partnering with a pliant Donald Trump; Trump's first impeachment centering on Ukraine; Russia's 2020 election interference; and Putin's current exponential military escalation (he was possibly the only analyst to predict beforehand in writing Ukraine's sinking of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet Flagship, the Moskva), including a podcast with Ukraine's 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Oleksandra Matviichuk. This coverage includes his groundbreaking eBook, A Song of Gas and Politics: How Ukraine Is at the Center of Trump-Russia, or, Ukrainegate: A “New” Phase in the Trump-Russia Saga Made from Recycled Materials (available in Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, & EPUB).
A large number of the articles on the current war are adapted from three of Brian's Small Wars Journal articles:
- Bungling the Prewar and First Moves in Finland 1939 and Ukraine 2022: A Comedy of Errors for Stalin’s Soviet Union and Putin’s Russia, Respectively (May 23, 2022)
- The Beginning of the End of Putin? Why the Russian Army May (and Should) Revolt (March 8, 2022, and featured by Real Clear Defense, The National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED)Democracy Digest, and SOF News)
- The Utter Banality of Putin’s Kabuki Campaign in Ukraine(February 21, 2022, and featured by SOF News)
THE CURRENT WAR
Winter War in Ukraine: Seeing Through the Blizzard of Bad Takes
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Capturing the Unique Inspirational Quality of Ukraine’s Fight Against Russia via Two Writers
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This Is the Beginning of the End of the War
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Why Putin Has Doomed Himself with His Ukraine Fiasco
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I Saw This War Could Be Putin’s Undoing All the Way Back in Early March
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Russian Army Collapses—and Revolution—Near-Certain as Russia Loses War: When/Where Harder to Predict
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Why Is Russia Losing on 3 Fronts? Math (the Short Answer)
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The 5 (English) Accounts to Follow on Russia’s Ukraine War
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Ukrainian Prudence Meets Russian Limitations: Explaining the Current Pace and Nature of Russia’s War on Ukraine
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The West’s Humanitarian Response to Ukraine Should Inspire Repetition, Not Envy
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How Ukraine War Will Likely Go Rest of 2022, or, Kherson: The Beginning of the End for Russia
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Russia’s Defeat in Ukraine May Take Some Time, But It’s Coming and Sooner Than You Think
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BACKGROUND
The U.S. Should Weaponize Europe’s Oil and Natural Gas Markets in an Economic Offensive Against Russia
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Already in a Cyberwar with Russia, NATO Must Expand Article 5 to Include Cyberwarfare
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The History of Russia’s Cyberwarfare Against NATO Shows It Is Time to Add to NATO’s Article 5
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When Dirty Russian-Connected Money Saved Trump’s Ass and His Ensuing Business Disasters Helped Destroy the Global and American Economies
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The Nexus of American Right-Wing and Kremlin Disinformation Exposes Trump-Russia’s Mechanics
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Nationalism: A National Security Threat from Without and Within and one of Putin’s Favorite Weapons
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Coronavirus and History, Russia and Italy, the War for Reality, and the Nexus of It All
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The Untold Story of the Bidens and Burisma
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Time to Play Hardball with Russia
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A Song of Gas and Politics: How Ukraine Is at the Center of Trump-Russia, or, Ukrainegate: A “New” Phase in the Trump-Russia Saga Made from Recycled Materials (eBook preview/excerpt)
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Ukrainegate Proves the Media Has Learned Almost Nothing from 2016
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How Cohen’s and Manafort’s Ukraine Ties Tell the Deeper Story of Trump-Russia and the Mueller Probe
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External Audio/Video interview of Brian on Ukraine
Twitter Spaces:
Panel with Rep. Adam Kinzinger
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1lDGLLXaVeMGm-5/6/2022
Other Related External Articles by Brian
BYLINE TIMES
How Ukraine’s Southern Offensive Could Lead to the End of the War- August 16, 2022
SMALL WARS JOURNAL
WAR IS BORING
How Syria Fits Into the Trump-Russia Scandal- March 29, 2018
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