Elected in 2019 to bring peace to Ukraine, a Zelensky aide now declares that “there is no peace with Russia, and Ukraine must arm itself to the teeth.”

One year after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is backsliding away from democratic freedoms and liberal pluralism.

The violence in Ukraine is unimaginable. But before the violence, there was violence.

But one year after its brutal invasion of Ukraine, Moscow looks poised to weather the worst of Western sanctions.

The German and French leaders have told Ukraine they must seek peace with Russia in exchange for a post-war defense pact, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Most of Ukraine’s tanks are post-Soviet models. Without ammunition, these are ‘not tanks but tractors’

Things are escalating more and more rapidly between the US-centralized power structure and the few remaining nations with the will and the means to stand against its demands for total obedience, namely China, Russia, and Iran. The world is becoming increasingly split between two groups of governments who are becoming increasingly hostile toward each other, and you don’t have to be a historian to know it’s probably a bad sign when that happens. Especially in the age of nuclear weapons.

It is fortunate for the West that their accusations of Putin’s imperial ambitions are utter nonsense, for the attrition rate for the weaponry and ammunition they have sent to Ukraine is so great that, if Russia really did fulfil the West’s hysterical fantasy and invade Eastern Europe, NATO would be in dire straits, lacking the weapons and the industrial infrastructure to produce them for war time conditions.

As 2023 unfolds, we fear that American policy will continue to be characterized by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia.

The new Cold War, like its predecessor, can be traced back to the misinterpretation of Russian intentions. In case of old Cold War, as we now know from diplomatic archives, the West grossly misunderstood the intentions behind the 1948 Berlin Blockade.