John Wight on the grim context of the latest escalatory development in the blood-soaked proxy conflict between Russia and the West.

With tens of thousands more killed and Ukraine’s leverage tanking, the quickly withdrawn House Democrats’ letter is proving prescient.

Olaf Scholz appears to recognize that far left and far right parties in his country are seeking to fill the diplomatic vacuum

Things have slowed down a tad over the past couple days as both Russian and Ukrainian armies have done some repositioning, one playing off the other’s moves and vice versa.

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The package includes HIMARS ammunition, Stinger missiles, air defenses, artillery rounds, and other equipment

Only a few profiting from war’s devastation while bootless crusade to extend NATO borders leaves US vulnerable to China in the Pacific

Russian President Vladimir Putin has outwitted the West by his response to Ukraine’s Kursk offensive one month ago, which was widely celebrated as a tipping point in the conflict. The conflict is indeed at a tipping point today, but for an entirely different reason insofar as Russian forces seized the folly of Ukraine’s deployment of its crack brigades and prized Western armour to Kursk Region to reach an unassailable position in the most recent weeks in the battlefields, which opens the door for multiple options going forward.

CIA Director William Burns and MI6 Chief Richard Moore held an unprecedented joint public event on Saturday

Pokrovsk, Sumy and Kyiv, Ukraine
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Dima never puts out a cigarette until he smokes it right down to the filter, risking burning his fingers to squeeze out one more drag. He spent years on the Ukrainian front lines. He knows the price of a good smoke.