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Where to now, Putin? Because there is no way you can win.

Over the last few months, I've been keeping close tabs on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and sharing my analysis both editorially and in conversation on my YouTube channel. This is, after all, what appears to be the most public war in history, with as many armchair generals as there

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Even I knew more than the Russian intelligence services: Assessing Putin's plans

Who knows what's in the mind of a narcissistic conspiracy theorist military dictator? In the case of Vladimir Putin, we actually can get a decent idea of what he originally wanted and how they have had to necessarily change. When Putin amassed his troops on the Russian and

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How tone-deaf can you possibly get?

We are in the midst of a world-defining moment in terms of geopolitics. Ukraine has unified the West, solidified NATO and its support, and strengthened the EU. Putin and Russia are looking increasingly isolated as China tries to navigate a fine line. And who sums up this scenario the most

Russian invasion of Ukraine

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

There's no nice and neat moral solution to the Ukraine conflict

Although people will be approaching the present war from different angles, looking to load their evaluations with differing amounts of blame for the various players—Putin, NATO, the EU, Ukraine, the West, the IMF etc.—we all desire a nice and neat moral solution. It doesn't matter who

Cyberwar: When should it go military?

As we see burning buildings containing the charred and broken bodies of Ukrainian citizens, as we take in images of muddy fields and boggy tracks doing more to halt Russian hardware than NATO troops, and when we are glued to social media pictures of Ukrainian underdogs overcoming and requisitioning Russian

earthquake of perspective

Putin meant to destroy Ukraine's identity. Instead, he's massively enhanced it

Though it's hard to know all of Vladimir Putin's intentions in the invasion of Ukraine, one thing is for sure: he intended to destroy Ukraine's independent identity as he subsumed the sovereign nation into a rose-tinted reformulation of the Soviet Union. But of the

Foreign Affairs

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