Analysis
Thursday, March 3rd 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Melanie Phillips Substack, Mar. 2, 2022 “My former career @StateDept, NSC, and EU colleagues are so concerned with the concessions being made by @RobMalley in Vienna that they’ve allowed me to publish some details of the coming deal in the hopes that Congress will act to stop the capitulation.” The air is currently loud with the sound of […]
Tuesday, March 1st 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Gerald M. Steinberg Jewish Journal, Feb. 24, 2022 “For Israel, the events in Ukraine are an important reality check.” The first lesson to be learned (or relearned) from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is that the absence of deterrence can be fatal for any nation. The bravery and determination displayed by the leaders and citizens of […]
Alex Traiman JNS, Feb. 27, 2022 “Over 40,000 Jews live in the country and approximately 200,000 Ukrainians have direct Jewish lineage and qualify for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.” With fighting raging in Ukraine, Israel finds itself torn between supporting independent Ukrainian sovereignty and not wishing to anger a newly belligerent world power […]
James M. Dorsey The Korea Times, Feb. 28, 2022 “For its part, Israel doesn’t share physical land or maritime borders with either Russia or Ukraine. Still, it is discovering that its ability to counter Iran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, militarily in Syria may depend on its approach to the Ukraine crisis.” Europe is likely […]
Andrew Koss Mosaic, Feb. 28, 2022 “Last year, Kyiv reportedly requested access to its vaunted Iron Dome missile-defense system, which Israel has so far refused to share.” The eyes of the world are on Ukraine. Its borders have been overrun by a long-awaited Russian offensive, and its citizens are fighting for their freedom. Perhaps because […]
Monday, February 28th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Ben Cohen JNS, Feb. 25, 2022 “Under the current political regime, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories is out of fashion,” wrote author, Ilya Yablokov.” Jews and dictators normally don’t get along. History is replete with examples of strongmen who reviled the Jewish communities in their midst. Many of their names spring easily to mind, like Hitler, […]
Lawrence Freedman Samf.Substack, Feb. 27, 2022 “A high human and strategic price is now being paid by Moscow for some haphazard and arrogant planning, and for failing to think through the worst case as well as the best.” In my previous post I explained why I thought that this war had begun badly for Russia […]
Lee Smith Tablet, Feb. 25, 2022 “… it was Americans that put them in harm’s way by using their country as a weapon, first against Russia and then against each other, with little consideration for the Ukrainian people who are now paying the price for America’s folly.” Russian President Vladimir Putin chose this war, Joe […]
Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco Geopolitical Monitor, Feb. 24, 2022 “…[Russia’s invasion of Ukraine] marks (after decades of intellectual triumphalism) the fateful return of realpolitik as an interpretative prism to understand the field of international relations.” Bilateral relations between Russia and Ukraine have been confrontational since 2014, when the civil unrest triggered by the Euromaidan movement managed […]
Friday, February 25th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Feb. 24, 2022 “Russian President Vladimir Putin likely took some cues from the 1990s, but also wants to use a new Russian method of war.” Russia began its assault on Ukraine on Thursday morning by using cruise missiles. Reports showed video of the relatively slow missiles flying low to the ground, and […]
Jim Geraghty National Review, Feb. 24, 2022 “We are witnessing, on our television screens and through the web, the largest land war in Europe since 1945, an unprovoked attack by an autocratic superpower with nuclear weapons against a flawed but independent democracy that had committed no crime or provocation.” On the menu today: Russia has […]
Eldad Shavit, Udi Dekel, and Anat Kurz INSS, Feb. 23, 2022 “… it is clear that the military and political developments, including the arrangements that will subsequently be determined, will have an impact on the risks and opportunities facing countries in the Middle East.” The international system is preparing for the possibility that for the […]
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