In the coming weeks, Vladimir Putin will be throwing all he’s got against a stretch of high ground between the Russian occupied town of Bahkmut and the city of Kramatorsk to gain complete control of Ukraine’s Donbass region and score…
Late this past summer, I witnessed something that others could have seen, but, like me, they wouldn’t have fully understood what they were watching. It was the ultimate tip-of-the-iceberg experience. I was about to catch the train from Kyiv heading…
Ay me! I see the ruin of my house. The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind; Insulting tyranny begins to jut Upon the innocent and aweless throne: Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre! I see, as in a map, the end of all. — Richard III, Act II,…
Russia’s steady westward advance following the fall of Avdiivka has Europeans in a panic. Frenzied calls between German generals agonizing about giving long range missiles to Ukraine get intercepted by Russia and EU governments quarrel over French proposals to send…
How does the Ukraine-Russia war end? In an October surprise. Ukraine, which became independent on 24 August 1991, will be dissolved and a New Ukraine will come into being by virtue of a unilateral declaration by the present Government of…
The Russians have taken Avdiivka, and President Joe Biden faces a tough choice: he either closes the Mexican border or loses Ukraine. The $61 billion supplemental aid package for Ukraine, which may be the minimum required to block further Russian…
I The Hall of the Order of St. Catherine is the most intimate of the five staterooms within the forbidding walls of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Lacking the martial character of the Hall of the Order of St. George, and…
As Vladimir Putin talked to Tucker Carlson about the “Russian soul” last week, his troops were breaking through Ukrainian defenses in a key sector of the besieged city of Avdiivka, which has become the latest pivotal battle of the war. …
Vladimir Putin has marked the New Year by firing more than 500 missiles “of all types” against Ukraine, hitting Kyiv, Odessa, and most other major cities in recurrent strikes over last weekend in an unprecedented blitz to overwhelm Ukraine’s air…
