Potemkin military”, said Andrei Kozyrev about the Russian Army. He ought to know, being no stranger to Russian affairs as he was foreign minister of Russia under Yeltsin. Grigory Potemkin was a courtier on intimate terms with Catherine the G... Continue reading →

This is a war among brothers; Ukrainians are closer to Russians than people of many of the other ethnicities in Russia. Being “Russian” started in Ukraine with Kiev as the capital of the first Russian state in history in the ninth cent... Continue reading →

Three portmanteau words were lying orphaned, neglected. The Ukraine war has given them new refuge in the pens of respectable writers. Contagement, a hybrid of containment and engagement was a policy, though not by this name, evolved during the yea... Continue reading →

Why should a comedian make a better war strategist than a long-time spy? Putin has ruined the reputation of his country, his war machine and of himself by drumming up war hysteria and then struggling to subdue a weaker opponent. Zelensky, who shar... Continue reading →

Sovereignty has two opposite attributes – it makes the sovereign immune to interference by other sovereigns in its internal affairs and it gives every sovereign the right to wage war. In spite of the pious declarations about peace, war has b... Continue reading →

There are darker clouds of war on the horizon. The escalation is likely to be qualitatively different from the events so far. Russia has mercilessly pounded the entire territory of Ukraine with no respect for civilian residential areas and with a... Continue reading →

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