Tag: Ukraine

As Trump closes in on the Republican nomination, Professor James Allan looks ahead to the clash with Biden and predicts a second Trump term when he wins in November.

The one source of comfort for Joe Baron going into 2024, with everything else looking so doomy and gloomy, was the prospect of Arsenal winning the league. But he's beginning to doubt that even that will happen.

Should Volodymyr Zelensky continue to fight endlessly in pursuit of a comprehensive defeat of Russia which may be unattainable – or should he consider cutting his losses and reaching a compromise?

Since mid-March 2022, historian Anatol Lieven has been saying that Ukraine has “already won”. They successfully defended their capital, thereby forcing the Russians to regroup for a more limited war in the East.

Last year, the Foreign Office sanctioned pro-Putin blogger Graham Phillips, the first time it has sanctioned a UK citizen. Peter Hitchens says if we don't object, other critics of the Govt's foreign policy could be next.

Three Ukrainian police officers have been found guilty of murdering protestors in 2014. Yet the trial verdict states that there were snipers in buildings "not controlled by law enforcement" at the time of the massacre.

The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has claimed that “the Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to”. He is now the fifth person to state that the West opposed a peace deal.

According to the Financial Times, Western support for Israel’s assault on Gaza “has undone months of work to paint Moscow as a global pariah for breaching international law”.

In April 2022, M.L.R. Smith and Niall McCrae drew on their extensive Cold War knowledge to offer provisional analysis of the Russian war in Ukraine. Eighteen months later they look back at how their conclusions held up.

Ian Rons made the mistake of reading an article by an American conservative arguing for an end to aid for Ukraine. The ignorance was almost bottomless.