Over the weekend, they’ve made it pretty clear. Samantha Power quotes Jake Sullivan: https://twitter.com/PowerUSAID/status/1591393902820724736 It’s directly stated, looks like he had it written out when he gave it. I’ll write out the whole statement so it’s easy to read. I’ve obviously seen a number of...
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Informal meeting of CIS heads of state Update 10/25/2022: I’ve added an April 20 quote at the suggestion of François Heisbourg and September 30 from Gene Dannen. Thanks to both..
A view of the grad rocket firing as counterattack launched by the Ukrainian forces against the Russian forces' attacks continue in southern counteroffensive on Oct. 7, 2022. (Photo by Metin.
There's been some chatter on "security studies Twitter" about why Russia might have sabotaged Nord Stream 1 and 2. Nord Stream 1 is an important source of hard currency, which the Kremlin needs to cushion the damage done by western economic sanctions and to finance...
As Russia’s situation deteriorates on the battlefield, concerns grow about the possibility that Vladimir Putin might try to change the situation with a battlefield nuclear weapon. The war is so.
Yesterday Rob wrote a piece that I agree with. We've both been cautious about the news coming out of Ukraine because it was hard to verify, but the Ukrainian offensive.
The Soviet Union ran on a command economy. To a great extent, it was isolated from the rest of the world economy. When the Soviet Union came apart in 1991, it had to reconstruct its economy to work with the rest of the world. That...
There are a lot of bad takes coming out on the war. Two documents provide the background necessary to evaluate them. Masha Gessen talks about how authoritarianism works in Russia.
This is a guest post by friend of the blog, Jamie Mayerfeld. I've been sitting on an unfinished draft piece on the same subject: the remarkably bad DSA IC statement.
Nobody knows. But Russia has been deploying troops around its border with Ukraine, particularly around the Donbas, the area where Russia has been carrying on a small war since late 2014. Earlier that year, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine. The latest buildup,...
Ukraine and Breakaway Regions | Image via the Financial Times Some U.S. officials are very worried that Russia is preparing a new offensive against Ukraine. The major reason, of course,.
Vladimir Putin has proudly announced that Russia is developing superweapons that will get around the American missile defenses he sees as destabilizing the nuclear standoff. Poseidon, also known as Kanyon.