Last year, global sales of fossil fuels, especially to Europe at inflated prices, brought into Russia export revenues of up to $1.1 billion a day. These record revenues from fossil fuel exports, generated in the first months of the...
When assessing the support needed to counter the Russian war in Ukraine, a proper understanding of the Russian strategy is crucial. If seen as a conventional war, the requirements are different than seen through the prism of hybrid war....
On January 25, the European Court of Human Rights published an interim verdict on the so-called “great Donbas trial”. This decision has become an astonishing victory for Ukraine. The Court confirmed that Russia invaded Donetsk...
In winter, it’s always quite difficult to recall what spring was like. After many months of this war, it is even more difficult to recreate what happened beforehand from memory. But we have to try, not only because there is no today...
Both The New York Times and The Washington Post see the failure to deliver tanks to Ukraine as the first sign of discord within NATO. It is not the first. It is not even the second indication of an Alliance facing internal strife....
Let us compare Europe in 2022 and 2023. According to official data for 2021, Europe was 45% dependent on imported Russian gas and 27% on oil. Nord Stream 2, the energy weapon of the Kremlin, was quietly built despite the desperate warnings...
In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an event that would come to be seen as a turning point in the fight for Ukrainian national identity. As the country came under attack, the Ukrainian people were united in...
In the days following Russia’s full-fledged attack on Ukraine, one European news channel repeatedly aired a cutscene preceding the news about the war. In it, a girl forced to flee from shelling and bombing told reporters: “I...
Operation Desert Storm was the first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War. When the US deployed in 1991, it deployed an overwhelming force to ensure victory at minimum costs against what was considered...
If Russia disintegrates, there are ever more reasons to believe that it will due to the intensification of its domestic problems. As a result of Putin’s disastrous war in Ukraine, its demise will be more prolonged, more violent, and...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
