Lots of people make a lot of claims, but cold, hard, territorial realities in a war of conquest shatter much…
Some long-overdue housekeeping: why I’ve been absent and the elephants in the room on my Ukraine and 2024 election coverage…
Bold claim, I know, but I bring multiple receipts from 2016, 2020, 2022, and 2024 (even a 2019 Israeli election!)…
The relative inactivity post-U.S. aid package passing was partly a given, as Ukraine would obviously need some time to receive…
The U.S. was Ukraine’s strongest ally until Trump MAGA Republicans began blocking aid, resulting in Ukraine struggling in ways not…
A catastrophe at a hospital, regardless of its cause, highlights the need for careful, not rash action, on the part…
Slow but steady progress is just that, not a “stalemate,” and the dynamics still overwhelmingly favor Ukraine (Russian/Русский перевод; Если вы…
From Stalinist show-trials in Spain to Jim Jordan’s Judiciary Committee, history is repeating itself and it is terrifying as Trump,…
Virtually everyone in Russia now knows Putin is an incompetent loser driving Russia into a ditch (Russian/Русский перевод; Если вы состоите…
Why a siege is far preferable to an assault (for now) and how that can be set up (Russian/Русский перевод; Если…
Both the ground raids and the drone air strikes are not only going to accelerate the collapse of Russia’s military…
The smell of counteroffensive is in the air this spring in Ukraine as events in Kherson and Bakhmut will reverberate…
As a major literal and figurative barrier is crossed by Ukraine, it’s time to take stock of the course of…
Imagining a post-Putin world is not as hard as many would think and would be better for everyone, including Russia…
Enough with the “Russian offensive” hype. Whatever the Kremlin manages to stitch together in the coming weeks and months, there…