According to a leaked Russian government opinion poll, popular support for the war in Ukraine is beginning to weaken. Twenty-five per cent of respondents want the war to continue vs 55% who want a negotiated settlement.
It’s not fair to blame the war in Ukraine on Ukraine’s failure to honour the Minsk II agreement. Russia had no intention of honouring it either.
How likely is it that Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine? Not very likely, says Ian Rons, who can envisage only negative consequences for Putin if he goes nuclear.
Those who thought the war in Ukraine was unwinnable and the best option was to offer Putin the Donetsk and Luhansk in return for peace have been proved wrong. It now looks as though Ukraine can expel the invader.
Retired Swiss intelligence officer Jacques Baud is often cited as a reliable source about what's really going on in Ukraine. (Putin was provoked, the Ukrainian military is full of Nazis, etc.) But how reliable is he?
In this week's London Calling, the topics are the WHO pandemic treaty, the woke Ninjas who risked life and limb to take on... middle-aged feminists and my excitement about seeing Top Gun: Maverick.
If Russia's invasion of Ukraine was prompted by NATO's eastward expansion, as some Putin apologists argue, why has the official reaction to Finland's NATO application been so muted?
Listen to the Daily Sceptic's Noah Carl debate Triggernometry's Konstantin Kisin on whether arming Ukraine and sanctioning Russia is the right response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Ed West has written a brilliant analysis of why some Right-wing populists have either sided with Putin or think Putin's Russia and Zelenzky's Ukraine are morally equivalent – they're suffering from oikophobia.
It's become commonplace for politicians to condemn Putin for breaching international law and other moral norms. But have they got a leg to stand on when Britain has done likewise in the past? Yes, says a military lawyer.
