Tag: Russia

According to a new poll, those vaccinated against Covid are also much more likely to support initiating war between Russia and the United States. What's the link?

It’s for the Ukrainians to decide the value of their own freedom and what negotiating position they wish to take. The West should not pressure Ukraine to negotiate with the untrustworthy Russian leader.

Supplying arms to Ukraine *may* work, but we shouldn’t just assume it’s the right policy. The best thing the West can do is pressure both sides to negotiate, in the hope of a reaching some kind of settlement.

The problem with arguing we shouldn't arm a country in case it prolongs a war is that it is an aggressors’ charter, blaming defenders for hurting their own people by not surrendering sooner.

What do people in the “non-Mearsheimer camp” believe Ukraine should have done? Even if we blame Russia entirely, an invasion cannot be considered a good outcome, so it’s worth asking how it could have been avoided.

If we lived in a world without nuclear weapons, we could enter the war and probably achieve a decisive victory over Russia. But that *isn’t* the world we live in. And we have to make plans based on reality.

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.

Ukraine is certainly not a 'Nazi state'. However, there are powerful neo-Nazi elements within it endorsed by the state, such as Azov. To what extent are Zelenskyy's hands tied by these militia as he negotiates peace?

Britain has today followed the U.S. and banned Russian oil imports as drivers started queuing for fuel after being hit by the steepest weekly hike in fuel prices in more than 18 years.

Outrage seems to be the emotion driving current policy towards Russia, replacing the Fear that had dominated Covid policymaking in the past two years. But outrage, however justified, is no basis for achieving peace.