Statespeople, diplomats, military brass and spies at a defence conference this weekend fear war is tilting in Moscow’s favour

The Biden administration’s Ukraine PR campaign echoes messaging on the Vietnam War beat for beat.

With Ukraine’s forces at risk of encirclement, the top military commander ordered a retreat. In startlingly candid accounts, soldiers described disarray and despair.

Attendees of the Munich Security Conference were worried about Ukraine’s prospects against Russia and American commitment to Kyiv.

What was the basis for a quarter of a millennium of uninterrupted and unprecedented growth and wealth creation that has been the dominant theme of United States history? It has been the growth and preservation of the free market and the rise of Wall Street as the most freewheeling, unregulated (however much this has now changed) successful investment and money mart in the world.

The survey suggests Biden administration policy toward Russia is increasingly out of step with public opinion

The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 26, contains this invaluable insight: “As dogs return to their vomit, so fools repeat their folly. You see those who are wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.” Invaluable because, in connection with the Russia-Ukraine War, the passage powerfully illuminates the current debate about Ukraine’s future strategic prospects.

KYIV/LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Russian forces are intensifying efforts to seize the small eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka as Moscow’s war in Ukraine grinds on.

The fighting is reminiscent of the battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut, which fell to Russia last May after months of grinding urban combat, 15 months into a full-scale invasion that Moscow calls a “special military operation”.

Follow-up to 2022 Munk Debate

We’ve already given Ukraine $120 billion, only to see the war descend into a stalemate