Ukraine

Donald Trump came into office promising to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Now, six months later, his high stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska may have put the United States and Russia on a new path…

In Kiev, I met Yurii Sheliazenko, a Quaker conscientious objector and leader of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, whom I had met and interviewed during my trip to Ukraine last August, and his friend Artem Denysov, also a Quaker. They took…

One of them must have offered more concessions to the other. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov confirmed on Thursday that Putin and Trump could meet as soon as next week following Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s “highly productive” three-hour-long meeting with his…

The Europeans’ compliance or lack thereof will play a crucial role in the conflict’s future course. The offensive dimension of Trump’s new three–pronged approach to Ukraine involves the sale of American weapons to NATO who’ll in turn transfer them to…

Their refined Hybrid War model will involve efforts to win the “tech race”, a new Western division of labor for containing Russia in Europe, and AI-generated anti-Russian infowars. Russia’s natural resource wealth and new role in accelerating multipolar processes incentivize the West…

Recently at the Ukraine Southeast Europe summit, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković reiterated his country’s commitment to support Ukraine in its demining efforts in addition to a continuation of humanitarian, economic and military aid. This comes after the two nations…

After my article about the NATO summit, which was in fact more a publicity show than anything else, I would like to give a historical inside from 2014 until today on the Ukrainian issue. There has been such an immense…

A Friend Asked Me a Question Yesterday A friend of mine posed a question to me yesterday. They asked: “I know you’re philosophically against war and all, but aren’t you at least rooting for Ukraine to win against Russia?” The…

He’s known for being a realist, not a wishful thinker, which is why his prediction was so surprising to many observers. Putin predicted a few weeks back that Russia will inevitably reconcile with the EU and Ukraine. Regarding the first,…

Russia considers it to be a series of military logistics projects sold to the public as economic ones. The 10th Summit of the “Three Seas Initiative” (3SI), which refers to the jointly Polish- and Croatian-founded platform for fostering Central European integration,…