Analysis
Tuesday, January 24th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Michael Brendan Dougherty National Review, Jan. 7, 2023 “Americans tend to think of war as moral exercise conducted upon the earth, and many seem to believe that somehow the vigor for democracy displayed in the Ukraine conflict will dissuade China from its ambitions in Taiwan.” ‘Your money is not charity,” Volodymyr Zelensky told a joint session […]
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Thursday, January 19th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
How Russia’s New Commander in Ukraine Could Change the War: Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, Jan. 17, 2023 — Last week, Russia announced that it was replacing General Sergei Surovikin—who had been put in charge of the war in Ukraine only three months earlier—with another general, Valery Gerasimov. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 15, 2023, Kateryna Stepanenko, […]
Jed Babbin American Spectator, Jan. 16, 2023 “All this stuff about COVID this, parts, supply chain this, I just don’t really care. I need [Standard Missile]-6s delivered on time. I need more [torpedoes] delivered on time.” The Russian war to conquer Ukraine is nearly 11 months old. The U.S. media, which demands instant gratification, […]
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. WSJ, Jan. 6, 2023 “Ending the war would be a blessing to the Russian people and Mr. Putin’s budget, but it would also crystallize Russia’s status as a ramshackle power.” World War II revisionist historian Phillips O’Brien has been fighting the good fight lately on Twitter, upholding the thesis of his 2015 […]
Larry Johnson Sonar 21, Jan. 11, 2023 “Russia, like a World Champion Poker Player, is hiding its cards and only showing Ukraine what it wants them to see. Is Russia going to go all in or will it continue grinding?” The collapse of Ukrainian resistance in Soledar was confirmed even by some of the […]
Ivo H. Daalder and James Goldgeier Foreign Affairs, Jan. 9, 2023 “… there is a pressing need to consider the longer term, and to develop policies toward both Russia and Ukraine based on the emerging reality that this war is likely to continue for quite some time.” Whenever the United States faces a foreign […]
Tuesday, December 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
BIDEN COMES TO RUSSIA’S RESCUE United States of America v. Viktor Bout: International Crimes Database — Viktor Bout, a notorious international arms dealer also known as the Merchant of Death, was alleged of trafficking weapons to several African warlords, dictators in the Middle East, and the Colombian FARC. — [The Biden administration exchanged Viktor Bout in a prison swap […]
Max Glenn Washington Times, Dec. 3, 2022 “He was buying drones from Iran. Now he’s going to buy artillery rounds from North Korea.” The Soviet Union supplied Marxist revolutionaries and Third World dictatorships with military hardware for decades as part of its long struggle against the capitalist West, but 10 months after sending tanks […]
Gerard Laval Washington Times, Nov. 29, 2022 “If Mr. Putin’s ambition is to dominate Europe in emulation of Hitler, then he must be stopped and he must be stopped now before he is in a position to act upon his ambitions. But if he is merely trying to reconstitute Russian hegemony over an area that […]
James Malsin WSJ, Dec. 5, 2022 “Since October, Russia has repeatedly launched large-scale aerial attacks on Ukrainian cities using long-range missiles and drones, with many of the attacks targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.” Ukrainian drones hit two Russian air bases on Monday, Russia’s defense ministry said, while Ukrainian officials hinted at a capability to strike deeper within […]
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Michael Kofman Foreign Affairs, November/December 2022 “Russian power and influence may be diminished, but that does not mean Russia will become dramatically less threatening. Instead, some aspects of the threat are likely to worsen.” At a White House ceremony on August 9, days after the U.S. Senate agreed in a near-unanimous […]
Thursday, October 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
WHAT’S WITH RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR STOCKPILE? Here’s What Russia’s Attacks May Indicate About Its Weapons Stockpile.: Mike Ives, NY Times, Oct. 11, 2022 — The Russian missile and drone attacks that killed at least 19 people across Ukraine on Monday were traumatic and wide-ranging, but they were not as deadly as they could have been, in […]
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