In this monthly update for November, Dmitriy Kovalevich, special correspondent in Ukraine for New Cold War summarizes the events that lead to the current SMO and the events as they continue to unfold in the country.

The West is screwed, says the realist foreign policy scholar

The possible outcomes from the start of the war remain the same today.

Professor John Mearsheimer’s lecture about why the situation Ukraine is the West’s fault has had over 28 million views so far on YouTube – and he gave the speech 7 years ago. The professor recently visited Hungary and while there spoke to the Political Hobbyist podcast.

The New York Times has found another neo-Nazi militia to fawn over in Ukraine. The Bratstvo battalion “gave access to the New York Times to report on two recent riverine operations,” which culminated in a piece (11/21/22) headlined “On the River at Night, Ambushing Russians.”

As Europe faces economic and social uncertainty, it’s clear that leaders have made several false assumptions. They believed the region and the wider world would unite against Russia, that they could easily cut economic ties with Moscow, and that their people would bear the outcome no matter what.

The Russia-Ukraine War is complicated. There is no black-and-white. There is darker gray against lighter gray, and the entire world is suffering because of this struggle. And the suffering could get a lot worse.

Claremont Review of Books

Three new books dissent from the orthodoxy, helping to illuminate key aspects of the conflict and the crisis between Russia and the West.