Ukraine: mood music
September 29, 2023 1:32 am Post a CommentIt’s a while since I’ve posted on Ukraine, but that does not mean that I regard the situation there as... View Article
It’s a while since I’ve posted on Ukraine, but that does not mean that I regard the situation there as... View Article
I don’t know whether one can draw any conclusions from the contrast, but on the 82nd anniversary of Operation Barbarossa... View Article
For someone who has made a virtue of highlighting the plight of Ukraine – even if his primary motivation was... View Article
You wait all year for a president and then two turn up at the same time, Putin in Moscow and... View Article
Such is the power of prestige that the Wall Street Journal has given over an opinion slot to none other... View Article
Following the widespread missile attacks in Ukraine yesterday, the Ukrainians are insisting that the Russians had been planning missile strikes... View Article
Maybe I spoke too soon in thinking that the Russians – and especially Putin – were going to play the... View Article
The Ukraine war could be over by Christmas, say “military experts”, as retailed by The Times. Yet, albeit downpage, this... View Article
At the top of its piece on Lyman the Guardian has published a picture of a Ukrainian soldier with an unidentified,... View Article
Last Friday, even as Putin was celebrating the absorption of four Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation, declaring that the... View Article
Simply to make sense of things, it is often necessary to deal separately with different issues as they arise, neglecting... View Article
Josep Borrell, lest we all forget, is the EU’s High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security... View Article
According to president Putin, speaking yesterday morning on Russian television, Washington, London and Brussels are openly encouraging Kiev to move... View Article
By the time most of you read this, Putin will have addressed the Russian nation (and the world) in a... View Article
When the chatter on a particular subject increases, it is not necessarily a reflection of better understanding of the issues.... View Article
All of a sudden, Ukraine has climbed up the news agenda to such an extent that reports are even displacing... View Article