Ukraine

This letter was originally written February 21, 2022 by Anna Pustovoit. Anna is my former student and is originally from Kyiv. She wrote this while waiting to see if Russia was really going to invade her homeland. So many of the things Anna feared have now come true and her…

An offensive is coming, we all know that. What will it look like? How will it pan out? I’m laying down my (worthless) reputation here and predicting. What does Ukraine have for the offensive? Well, they have control over the sky — Russia can’t fly over them, but they can’t…

Highlights from the profanity-laced conversation and Putin gets a new nickname, the ‘Lilliputian’ — On March 7th, a phone call between Iosef Prigozhin and Farkhad Akhmedov was intercepted. The call reveals an amazing behind-the-scenes look at how the Russian elite now regards Putin one year after his catastrophic mistake to invade Ukraine. Before we get to the call, though, let’s meet our “heroes.”

And the North Macedonians. They were once world conquerors but they are not as well-known today as Greece. Think Alexander; he was a Macedonian. In fact, “North Macedonia” is a name that the Russians opposed because it led to a peaceful compromise with Greece (and the threat of regional unity)…

Today it was announced that Russian forces have unlawfully transferred or deported 19,514 Ukrainian children to Russia, violating the Geneva Conventions, the Ukraine Reintegration Ministry reported. To date, only 327 children have been returned to Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities indicate that Russian troops have killed 465 children and injured 943 since…

A new democratic order is already in place — The aftermath of wars have a huge bearing on all the parties involved in the war. It changes the trajectory of the direct actors, while tangentially affecting the spectators. …

As I’ve written before, there was no provocation from NATO against Russia. None whatsoever. At all. Zilch, zero, nado. The people that disagree with me start their stories in 1991, but that’s not when history began. Russia regularly cycles through a dozen or so excuses as to why it had…