How will the battlefield stalemate end in Ukraine?
The big fool here is Putin
World
Wednesday
Monday
Where Europe ends and the war begins
The violence in Ukraine might seem distant but the political implications for Hungary are very real
Saturday
The reporter who covered up the Ukrainian famine
Now is the time to de-Pulitzer Walter Duranty, who ran cover for the Soviets
Friday
Why the Ukraine war might not end
War never conforms to our desire for the good guys to defeat the bad guys
Thursday
The problem with that ‘stalled’ Russian convoy
Supposedly it’s run out of gas, but we should beware disinformation in an active war
Angela Merkel’s legacy crumbles
She left Germany toothless and dependent on Russia
Make China pay for its quiet support of Putin’s war
Xi is vulnerable to economic pressure
Wednesday
Did the realists underestimate Putin?
Russia’s Ukraine invasion is George W. Bush in Iraq all over again
Tuesday
The strange ideology that could be driving Putin
Eurasianism, as it’s called, sees a common historical destiny for all the non-Russian peoples of Russia
Yes, Putin could use biochemical weapons in Ukraine
An army barbaric enough to ignore the rules of war will not much care what horrors it inflicts
Is Putin nuts?
History shows that labeling foreign leaders as crazy sends us down a slippery slope
Monday
Russia is the West’s great tragedy
We should have brought them in from the cold, not turned up the heat
Sunday
Russia’s war is a global cancer
Its conflict will continue to spread — and what then?
Friday
Peace and its consequences in Ukraine
The Second Cold War that the Western world never wanted is already here
Ukraine and the war for your mind
The conflict on the ground isn’t the only one — there’s plenty of propaganda afoot too
Tuesday
Putin the reckless gambler
The supposedly cautious Russian leader has dug his country into a hole
Time for Europe to man up
Vladimir Putin has no respect for Davos Man
Monday
Vladimir Putin, deep statist
His Russia is not some Trumpist paradise but a tyranny of the security bureaucracy
What Erdogan is thinking about Ukraine
Turkey has emerged as a key player in the crisis — just don’t expect them to take a principled stand
Sunday
Putin will escalate
The suffering is only going to get worse — in Ukraine and in Russia too
