The US broke its promises and expanded NATO eastwards, increasing Russian insecurity. The US and the UK also torpedoed peace talks before war broke out. No side can win the war on the battlefield and the US must take five simple steps to bring back peace.
The Russia-Ukraine War could go horribly wrong and Europe is unprepared for it. The EU could take practical steps to improve food security as well as confront the fears that underlie the warlike atmosphere that we find ourselves in today.
The US and NATO are walking a precarious fine line in Ukraine, caught between their commitment to an open-ended, ever-escalating war and the existential danger of nuclear war.
Macbeth’s witches understood how ambitious politicians tend to equivocate with values. Alas, the media prefers to follow the politicians’ equivocal reasoning rather than critique or deconstruct it.
As Poland prepares for a possible escalation of the war in Ukraine, it has welcomed Ukrainian refugees with open arms. However, refugees from the Global South have been met with barbed wire and walls.
Except in cases of total victory and unconditional surrender, wars end through a negotiation process. The Ukraine conflict shows no sign of evolving beyond an increasingly costly and tragic stalemate. This means it must end with some form of negotiations. The key to any successful negotiation is a...
History is always complex, especially in Eastern Europe. One of our authors draws lessons from the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s to make a case for Western intervention in Ukraine. This interpretation is simplistic and misleading because there are many other lessons to draw from the...
In an increasingly global world, Gen Z must get a more comprehensive education about global affairs.
Bosnia did not get the support it needed 30 years ago to defend itself. Today it is barely a state, and that's the fate that Ukraine needs to avoid.
Thousands of Ukrainians have fled to European nations since the Russian invasion in February. Unlike African or Middle Eastern refugees, Ukrainian ones have received a warm reception, revealing a deeply racist orientation towards refugees in the West.
The US is funding and supporting Ukraine but not participating in its war against Russia. This has produced the conditions for a radical upsurge in propaganda.
The prevailing atmosphere in North American media of alignment with US and NATO policy on Ukraine has led to the exclusion, if not the suppression, of voices advocating restraint and counseling negotiations instead of indefinitely prolonged war. In the trio of possible positions — isolationism,...
Realists think that the Russia-Ukraine War should be resolved diplomatically. They ignore that Russia has no intention to achieve a peaceful conclusion and continues to flout international law. Therefore, the West must support Ukraine militarily.
A Christmas truce followed by peace talks would end the suffering of millions of Ukrainians, end a global economic crisis and save the world from the specter of nuclear war.
