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Biden: We are facing the 'prospect of Armageddon'

The world has been perilously close to an apocalypse on a number of occasions. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is one of the most famous. It actually involved several examples, with the closest being when the Soviet submarine B-59 surfaced after a US warship had been dropping practice depth

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Can Putin, locked in a bubble of bad intel, spin his way out of disaster?

Colonel General Gennady Zhidko is being reappointed to command Russia's Eastern Military District. One pro-Russian Telegram user has claimed that the general and others have created "a wall of lies...a sea of blood and a swamp of corpses." That wall of lies has for many

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Russia to illegally annex four more areas in Ukraine

In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and essentially occupied parts of two regions (oblasts) in Ukraine, incurring the impotent "wrath" of much of the rest of the world. The lack of meaningful pushback from the West at that time was part of what emboldened Putin to invade the sovereign

Will Putin go nuclear?

Vladimir Putin has a well-earned reputation for saber-rattling that in the end amounts to nothing. But when the saber is the most destructive weapon known to humanity—nuclear weapons some seven hundred times more powerful than those used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—it is dangerous to be dismissive. When the

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Putin escalates Ukraine conflict with mobilization of reserves, nuclear blackmail

In a highly-anticipated yet repeatedly delayed speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday morning (Sept 21) that the country is to embark on a large-scale mobilization of military reserves. This is in response to successive failures in the ongoing war in Ukraine, most recently resulting in a lightning-quick counteroffensive in

The Kharkiv offensive: A turning point in the war

Quite often, nothing really happens in wars where there are deadly stalemates for weeks on end. And then, everything happens all at once. This last week, everything has been happening all at once in the Russia-Ukraine War. To understand what has taken place and how a lightning counteroffensive was planned

Ukraine war fatigue: Keep your eyes open

Six months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, and Putin still can't really win, no matter what his endgame might be. The campaign has been catastrophic from the very start. Even Russians are feeling the fatigue as they are turning their televisions off, bored of the non-stop propaganda.

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Lithuania and Russia: De-escalation is not the answer

Russia—and more pertinently Putin—is threatening Lithuania with non-diplomatic retaliation in reply to the Baltic state's sanctioning of goods from Russia to its exclave Kaliningrad. As if things weren't precarious enough to Europe's east, the situation is on the brink of some frightening

The GOP's Russian church connection

The Republican Party has a long history of opposition to Russia. They were the leaders in Cold War rhetoric, deploring both the communism and atheism of the Soviet regime. In the early 1950s, The Red Scare, promoted by right-wing Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, warned the American people that communism was

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Is the Russia-Ukraine conflict quite so clear-cut?

A defining characteristic of the human mind is the drive to oversimplify complex problems. We don't do nuance and complexity well. Our media map is saturated with easily digestible narratives of good and evil, like the global "War on Terror." Or Ukraine right now. While I

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The Ukraine-Russia conflict: Let's talk about Putin's endgame

Beyond exclamations of shock and horror, what we need to be talking about as Russia invades Ukraine this morning is Putin's endgame. Putin claims that he is de-Nazifying Ukraine, and that it is not, despite what the West says, a sovereign nation. I listened to one of his