Russia’s war is a global cancer
Its conflict will continue to spread — and what then?
World
Sunday
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
Friday
Ukraine won’t join the European Union any time soon
Joining the bloc is a long and tedious process unlikely to be fast-tracked
Thursday
Putin’s Stalinist playbook
The Russian leader has eschewed Lenin in favor of a more familiar figure
America’s long history of sitting out Russian invasions
From Hungary in 1956 to Czechoslovakia in 1968, we’ve often chided but rarely intervened
Pro-Ukraine citizens clash with authorities in Georgia
Public resentment could reach a boiling point in the Caucasus
Wednesday
The Russian Orthodox Church eyes Ukraine
Putin’s government is waging not just a military campaign but a spiritual one
The Ukraine invasion is nothing compared to Iraq
Or Iran or Afghanistan or…
Putin understands America’s moral decay
He and Xi Jinping think we’re weak and dissolving from within. Could they be right?
Is Europe a continent? Does it matter?
The ‘continent’ is a lot more than what Nikole Hannah-Jones considers a racist ‘dog whistle’
Tuesday
Putin is making the EU great again
Achieving the impossible: perhaps there’s a silver lining to this awful mess
Even Hungary has soured on Vladimir Putin
Amid the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s Eastern European ‘allies’ are recoiling
What does Ukraine really mean for Taiwan?
There has been no serious debate over whether Taiwan, a rapidly aging society, can defend itself
Monday
Putin’s endgame is preserving ‘his’ Russia
And his invasion of Ukraine shows how far he’s willing to go to achieve it
