Putin isn’t done yet with the Middle East
Ten years ago, Putin saved Bashar al-Assad from certain defeat. Russia’s intervention raised Putin’s profile in the Middle East, and…
What will Putin do about Biden’s parting gift to Ukraine?
At the very moment most people seem to have forgotten of his existence, President Biden has slowly but purposefully shuffled…
Why should Putin negotiate?
In just a few months we will mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The war has resulted…
What Nigel Farage gets wrong about the Ukraine war
‘We [the West] provoked this war [in Ukraine],’ Nigel Farage recently declared on BBC Panorama, blaming Putin’s invasion of the neighboring…
Tiananmen Square remade the modern world
Thirty-five years ago today, China’s leaders ordered tanks into Tiananmen Square to disperse a student encampment. The death toll was…
Hope for Russia has died with Navalny
It was brave. It was foolhardy. It was almost unbelievable. After his near-fatal poisoning by the Russian Federal Security Service,…
Tucker Carlson failed Putin’s history class
They say that he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon. But, driven by vanity and unconstrained…
The reason Xi and Putin liked Henry Kissinger
On Henry Kissinger’s passing, Xi Jinping published a letter, extolling this ‘old friend of China’ as a man of ‘outstanding strategic…
Zelensky is a serious bind
The recent spat between Kyiv and Warsaw over grain – with Ukraine suing Poland at the WTO – has come at…
This failed coup will be just the beginning
Yevgeny Prigozhin has just exposed the full extent of Vladimir Putin’s weakness. In less than 24 hours, the leader of…
Putin’s acolytes can smell blood
Yevgeny Prigozhin, standing in the darkness next to a row of bloodied dead bodies, was shouting obscenities. With his yellowish,…
It’s time to talk about Nato membership for Ukraine
There was a time when Ukraine’s accession to Nato was a fantasy. It wasn’t just that Ukraine was dismally poor,…
Why Putin won’t take Hitler’s way out
The last time Europe fought a major war, there was no shortage of planning. We knew what peace meant. Winston…
What will Putin do next?
If you were Putin, what would you do? Predicting your adversary’s future moves requires putting yourself in his shoes. As…
Putin's war has exacted a terrible toll on Ukraine
Putin badly miscalculated. The Russian army terribly underperformed. Kyiv has shown unexpected resilience in the face of what experts thought…
Daria Dugina has become a martyr for Putin
There was something menacing yet vaguely absurd about the Tuesday memorial service held to commemorate the life and fascist times…
The West is watching the war in Ukraine like it's sport
Every time I hear a politician speak of Munich, I suspect that something is amiss. Last week, President Zelensky accused…
Why Russia needs to be humiliated in Ukraine
As Putin’s war against Ukraine drags on, Russia now faces the very real prospect of defeat. There are still difficult…
Putin has revived the cruelty of the Soviet regime
Soviet-style brutality lives again
