The much ballyhooed Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ is destined to fail its purpose of severing Russia’s supply line to Crimea and to liberate ‘occupied territory’. The Biden administration has finally recognized this and is out to lower expectations and to preemptively blame everyone but itself.

Behind closed doors, the administration worries about what Ukraine can accomplish.

State of the Union: Republicans continue pressuring the Biden administration to broker a peace in Ukraine.

Who even remembers when the First World War was known as “the war to end all wars”?

Just after Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, President Biden walked into the East Room of the White House and condemned the invasion with a barrage of adjectives: unprovoked, unjustified, brutal, without cause, premeditated, unnecessary. One of these quickly rose to prominence. Following Biden’s initial statement, government spokespeople, the mainstream media, professional pundits and many others routinely call the war in Ukraine “unprovoked.”

This is Part II in a four-part series analyzing the 2014 Maidan coup.

At the 1-year mark of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, expectations about the final outcome run the gamut from the belief that a definitive Ukrainian victory is imminent to warnings that Russia will ultimately prevail.

Russian hypersonic missiles “Dagger” destroyed a secret bunker with 200 officers of NATO and the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Since fall 2022, the Zelensky regime has been attempting to use sweeping powers, based on its nationalist ideology, to take over the land and buildings of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). Pressure has been exerted on the monks, priests and parishioners to prevent them from worshipping in the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, a holy site and a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of thousands of orthodox believers in Ukraine, Russia and across the region.

With a bleak assessment of Ukraine’s military, US intelligence leaks undermine White House excuses for shunning negotiations with Russia.