Putin’s mobilization is myopically feared by some but does more damage to him at home than anything to help the…
Revisiting my coverage from early in Putin’s escalation campaign and a new excerpt (Russian/Русский перевод) By Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry1981, LinkedIn,…
Losing this badly will help wake up millions of Russians to some level of reality, and they will blame Putin.…
In moving troops from stronger positions in Ukraine’s east to weaker positions in the country’s south, Russia exposed those troops…
There are many Twitter accounts focusing a lot of their attention on the war in Ukraine, and a decent number…
The factors explaining why things are now happening the way they are happening (Russian/Русский перевод) By Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry1981, LinkedIn,…
What a brief comparison between today’s aid work in Ukraine and efforts during Iraq’s Battle of Mosul against ISIS can…
It’s possible Ukraine can push Russia out entirely (including from Crimea & the Donbas) in the coming months; here’s how…
Dynamics over time are the key to analyzing just about anything, and they clearly favor Ukraine in Russia’s failing war…
Some fools claim that the West has been the aggressor against Russia here. The best argument against this—that enthusiastically helping…
We don’t need perfection, but the casual ridiculousness has to stop, or, how Obi-Wan Kenobi is a perfect microcosm for…
As usual, the media falls into facile forced narratives founded upon anecdotes, personal impressions, and its members own views and…
Apart from other thematic ways I already discussed that Putin today is repeating Stalin’s mistakes from the disastrous launching of…
Stalin and his Kremlin inner circle were egregiously overconfident in their planning for the Soviet Union’s invasion of Finland in…
Before Stalin launched his war against Finland in 1939, Soviet war planners based their planning on the self-serving, inaccurate fiction…