Explaining Ukraine’s resilience
Russian President Vladimir Putin “realizes he’s made a mistake” by ordering the invasion of Ukraine, said NATO’s former Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis, which explains why he has been pushing… Read more »
Category: Ukraine
Ukraine: Democratic realism vs Putin appeasers
Some 98% of Ukrainians believe their country will definitely or likely win the war against Russia, according to the latest public opinion survey conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI). East Ukraine… Read more »
Will Ukraine war return illiberal Poland to EU’s democratic fold?
Poland’s illiberal government may be forced by events, including those unleashed by Russia’s war, to inch closer to the European democratic mainstream, according to Kultura Liberalna’s Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina… Read more »
How Ukraine war turned Russia into China’s ‘new vassal’
Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s attempts to garner support for his country among other nations amid his widely condemned war in Ukraine demonstrates that Russia is in a “weak position,” according… Read more »
Civil society – Ukraine’s other army
Russian strategy toward Ukraine is designed to demoralize and demotivate, notes Anne Applebaum. But it encounters a potent countervailing force in the form of activists and volonteri in groups like… Read more »
‘Stop tiptoeing around Russia’: Ukraine at an inflection point
The war in Ukraine has now reached an inflection point, according to a prominent observer. The United States must decide whether it will help Ukraine approach the negotiating table with… Read more »
Fears grow for Ukrainian activist Maksym Butkevych
At the end of June 2022 Ukraine’s civic sector and media were rocked by a painful discovery that one of the most prominent human rights defenders, Maksym Butkevych, was… Read more »
The Ukraine imperative: Does the West have a strategy for victory?
Will the most consequential event of our time be the heroism of Ukrainian men and women fighting and dying for liberal democracy? Putin calculates that as democracies’ aid to… Read more »
Another Russia? Putin’s war on Ukraine ‘an absurdity based upon a lie’
Russia’s descent into corruption and the rise of Putin are a tale that has already been told in books, films, TV documentaries, and podcasts, from the BBC’s Ukrainecast to Tortoise Media’s Invaded: Voicemails… Read more »
Ukraine’s lessons for the arsenals of democracy
The strategic consequences of the war in Ukraine are more complex and ambiguous than a polarized conflict pitting democracy against autocracy, argues Ali Wyne, a senior analyst at Eurasia Group… Read more »