The Madness of Vladimir Putin
What Next? This paper was written with an Asian view of Vladimir Putin, the European Union, and Asians in Europe looking at Europe. The...
The Drums of War : Beat Russia
How is the Ukrainian war ending? Are the NATO states ready for war? Are the U.S. or the Europeans using the war to modernize...
Ukraine War Cost Russia ‘Military Superiority’ in Baltics: Report
As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, Moscow is losing “military superiority” it once held over its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies in the Baltic...
Kyiv’s Political Feuds Cause Cracks in Ukrainian Unity
Ukrainians on the streets of Kyiv were musing that it had been a week since Russia launched the largest drone assault on the country’s...
The Economist: From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up
An israel-hamas war in Gaza threatens to spread across the Middle East, with America and Iran facing off in the background. The Ukraine war,...
Kazakhstan: Fake news on “NATO facility” fans rage of Russian chauvinists
Prominent Russian media outlets chose Kazakhstan’s holiday of national sovereignty to widely disseminate a false news item about the opening of a supposed NATO...
Is Russia now a criminocracy?
Vladimir Putin’s Russia has previously been characterised as a “hybrid regime” that combines both autocratic and democratic elements. Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Viktoria Kaina...
Ukrainians fear becoming hostage to US political paralysis
The unprecedented removal of Kevin McCarthy as House speaker has thrust US politics into uncharted territory, while also sparking alarm across the Atlantic in...
NATO Defense Ministers Deal with Range of Alliance Issues
While the situation in Ukraine and the Middle East dominated, NATO defense ministers dealt with a range of issues during their defense ministerial in...
Measuring the Unmeasurable Indicators of Russian State Resilience
At the time of this writing, we find ourselves 550 days deep into the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine’s summer counter-offensive is...