The West has tried everything except ending the war
Diplomacy, sanctions, 200 rounds of talks—Russia used all of it to buy time. Diesel prices in America are just the tsunami's latest wave.
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A US-Russia deal won’t end the war. It will start the next one
Two American processes are converging on the same point: the cost to Russia of attacking NATO. A peace on Moscow's terms lowers the political price; a US troop drawdown lowers the military one. Moscow is waiting to read both before it moves.
Ukraine escaped the empire in 1991. The empire struck back.
It took 22 years of Moscow holding the strings, and then an invasion, to make Ukrainians fight for the real thing.
Ukrainians rally across dozens of countries to demand Europe use Russia’s frozen billions
The EU backed a €90 billion Ukraine loan with its budget while €210 billion in Russian central bank assets remain immobilized.
Kosova is no precedent for Russia’s annexation of Crimea—Ukraine should say so
Acknowledging Kosova’s exceptional path would strengthen Kyiv’s case against Moscow’s occupation referendums, not weaken it.
Table tennis restored Russia’s flag while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues
Sweden’s Anton Källberg faces Russia’s Vladimir Sidorenko in Malmö, the first Russian to play under his flag since table tennis dropped its wartime ban.
Russia is firing more missiles and drones than Ukraine can stop, and the gap is widening
Ukraine downed just one in twenty ballistic missiles in the last two big attacks. Patriots are rare, and the one workaround—striking the launchers—stays blocked.
Russia and Ukraine justify their strikes the same way. Only one justification holds up
Ukraine is now hitting Russia's power grid, ports, shipping and warehouses — the same categories Russia hits in Ukraine. Both call the targets military. The facts decide who is right.
Ukraine is turning Crimea into an island. It just fired the minister who armed the effort
The same pattern that cost Zaluzhnyi his job in 2024—success, popularity, a Syrskyi clash, a possible rival.
As Ukraine’s draft crisis erupts in Lviv, its own soldiers keep walking out
Many of the men who went to save the day in 2022 are still at the front; the ones who didn’t are still at home, and the government has wasted four years not saying why that has to change.
Russia won’t start a nuclear war. It might cause a nuclear disaster.
For the first time in history, a major war is being fought around 15 nuclear reactors. The West fears a Russian strike; the real danger is the disaster it has chosen not to see.
Europe can legally quit Russian LNG today. It keeps choosing not to.
Since October, every long-term buyer has had legal cover to walk away from Russian LNG. Only Germany has even asked.
Is Ukraine about to repeat Hitler’s mistake with the London Blitz?
The West left Ukraine one exit. It's the wrong one.
Russia is fighting for a world that strips you of freedom, agency, and humanity
I spent two years in a Russian penal colony watching what Russia wants for the rest of us.
First real crash test for Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions
The key question surrounding Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms was simple: could the system investigate people from the very top of political power?
NATO is dead. Meet CALM.
Discussing alternatives to the Alliance has long been taboo. That changed in 2026.
What does $350 billion in Ukraine aid look like? Nothing—it’s not a real number
POTUS is making a case American business has spent decades refusing to make.
The lobbying to bring back Russian gas is back. Faster electrification is the answer
The Iran war is reviving Russia's revenues—and Europe's gas-back lobbying. Both should be refused.
Kyiv Security Forum agreed Russia’s threat is existential. It did not discuss how to defeat Moscow.
The reason was the elephant the Forum could not name: an America that no longer behaves like an ally.
24 February 2022 was the West’s chance. It chose comfort instead.
The West had a duty. It lacked the civilizational stamina to honor it.