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"https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/17/the-zsu-offensives-in-kharkiv-and-kherson-some-comparisons/", "published_at": "2022-09-18T05:01:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-220e-7131-b814-9f2b9fc8a2de", "title": "The imperialists in Russia see red", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/the-imperialists-in-russia-see-red/", "published_at": "2022-09-17T05:03:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-220e-7131-b814-9f2ba05644b3", "title": "Russian Fascism in Action: Teaching Ukrainian Kids", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/russian-fascism-in-action-teaching-ukrainian-kids/", "published_at": "2022-09-16T18:28:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-220e-7131-b814-9f2ba0f4185f", "title": "To mobilize or not to mobilize, that is the question", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/15/to-mobilize-or-not-to-mobilize-that-is-the-question/", "published_at": "2022-09-16T06:17:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-220e-7131-b814-9f2ba1386041", "title": "The Ukrainian Nation", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/15/the-ukrainian-nation/", "published_at": "2022-09-15T17:56:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-220e-7131-b814-9f2ba1a9384e", "title": "Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: A Conundrum for the West?", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/15/armenia-azerbaijan-conflict-a-conundrum-for-the-west/", "published_at": "2022-09-15T16:42:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc6494d6a168", "title": "What is Kadyrov up to? The coming independence of Chechnya?", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/14/what-is-kadyrov-up-to-the-coming-independence-of-chechnya/", "published_at": "2022-09-14T19:21:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc6495c13552", "title": "Next steps for Russia?", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/14/next-steps-for-russia/", "published_at": "2022-09-14T17:27:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc649655e704", "title": "ZSU Counter-Offensive Update", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/zsu-counter-offensive-update/", "published_at": "2022-09-13T17:19:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc649743b3ba", "title": "The War in Ukraine: What Now?", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/11/the-war-in-ukraine-what-now/", "published_at": "2022-09-11T18:41:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc64974d5c25", "title": "The Rout of the Russian Army in the North", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/10/the-rout-of-the-russian-army-in-the-north/", "published_at": "2022-09-10T17:20:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc64978c9661", "title": "Blitzkrieg, Ukrainian-style", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/09/blitzkrieg-ukrainian-style/", "published_at": "2022-09-09T12:38:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc6498381a35", "title": "Collapse of Russian defenses in the North", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/08/collapse-of-russian-defenses-in-the-north/", "published_at": "2022-09-08T17:56:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc6498848ada", "title": "Counter-attack on Kherson will not come… but!", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/09/06/counter-attack-on-kherson-will-not-come-but/", "published_at": "2022-09-06T19:05:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc6498ad8f73", "title": "The Kremlin’s Fairy-Tales & Dugina’s Assassination", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/08/23/the-kremlins-fairy-tales-duginas-assassination/", "published_at": "2022-08-23T18:18:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-66a9-70f4-afa5-cc649963621b", "title": "The Forever War: Why is there no Ukrainian counter-attack?", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/the-forever-war-why-is-there-no-ukrainian-counter-attack/", "published_at": "2022-08-14T22:22:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9fa915de5", "title": "Atrocities and the Slow Death of Russia, Part 2", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/08/05/atrocities-and-the-slow-death-of-russia-part-2/", "published_at": "2022-08-05T23:16:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9fb079593", "title": "Atrocities and the Slow Death of Russia", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/08/03/atrocities-and-the-slow-death-of-russia/", "published_at": "2022-08-03T22:13:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9fc023e84", "title": "The Fifth Month of the War in Ukraine", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/the-fifth-month-of-the-war-in-ukraine/", "published_at": "2022-07-19T21:40:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9fc4ef3f0", "title": "The war grinds on while Russia’s near-abroad erupts in turmoil", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/06/20/the-war-of-attrition-russias-near-abroad-in-turmoil/", "published_at": "2022-06-20T22:24:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9fca162ff", "title": "Putin’s boa constrictor strategy vs West Cunctator", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/06/16/putins-boa-constrictor-strategy-vs-west-cunctator/", "published_at": "2022-06-16T20:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9fd5275b8", "title": "War of attrition and maneuvers in the succession struggle", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/06/08/war-of-attrition-and-maneuvers-in-the-succession-struggle/", "published_at": "2022-06-08T21:12:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9fe31cbd6", "title": "Should you pray for Putin’s demise?", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/06/06/should-you-pray-for-putins-demise/", "published_at": "2022-06-06T20:56:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9ff30d056", "title": "To victory and beyond?", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/06/03/to-victory-and-beyond/", "published_at": "2022-06-04T05:58:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9ff719b62", "title": "Fighting stalls as politics heat up: Will the West hold the line?", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/06/02/fighting-stalls-as-politics-heat-up-will-the-west-hold-the-line/", "published_at": "2022-06-03T04:54:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-b003-730e-9a71-67a9ff86446c", "title": "Russia is bogging down, schism in the Church", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/29/russia-is-bogging-down-schism-in-the-church/", "published_at": "2022-05-30T02:01:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbe-7089-b202-c9e7b5a80db1", "title": "Western Europe is stabbing Ukraine in the back", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/25/western-europe-is-stabbing-ukraine-in-the-back/", "published_at": "2022-05-26T05:54:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbf-7081-bdfe-6e56d2ea8e7b", "title": "War Update: fighting toward uti possidetis or Ukrainian victory", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/24/war-update-fighting-toward-uti-possidetis-or-ukrainian-victory/", "published_at": "2022-05-24T16:21:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbf-7081-bdfe-6e56d37421f5", "title": "War Update: Russians breaking through in Luhansk", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/war-update-russians-breaking-through-in-luhansk/", "published_at": "2022-05-20T16:14:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbf-7081-bdfe-6e56d42d4360", "title": "Collective West, now is not the time to go wobbly", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/collective-west-now-is-not-the-time-to-go-wobbly/", "published_at": "2022-05-20T02:59:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbf-7081-bdfe-6e56d44ba12b", "title": "The contraction of Russia’s war aims in Eastern Ukraine, March through June", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/16/the-contraction-of-russias-war-aims-in-eastern-ukraine-march-through-june/", "published_at": "2022-05-16T19:23:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbf-7081-bdfe-6e56d52a45f8", "title": "Putin’s useful idiots — unbelievably, still in Berlin and Paris", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/putins-useful-idiots-unbelievably-still-in-berlin-and-paris/", "published_at": "2022-05-15T04:56:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbf-7081-bdfe-6e56d560691d", "title": "War Update: Snake Island, missiles, and Moldova", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/war-update-snake-island-missiles-and-moldova/", "published_at": "2022-05-15T04:55:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbf-7081-bdfe-6e56d5c00a8f", "title": "South Ossetia about to become a problem?", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/south-ossetia-about-to-become-a-problem/", "published_at": "2022-05-15T04:54:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbf-7081-bdfe-6e56d6add5d1", "title": "The “Freedom for Russia” Legion", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/the-freedom-for-russia-legion/", "published_at": "2022-05-15T00:09:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d054-edbf-7081-bdfe-6e56d6e6d922", "title": "Some updates about potential mobilization in Russia", "url": "https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/some-updates-about-potential-mobilization-in-russia/", "published_at": "2022-05-14T18:59:37+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

The U.S.-Iran War at an Impasseoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2026

2025

The Education of Donald J. Trumporiginal ↗
22 Aug 2025

2024

The False Narrative of “Broken Promises” To Not Enlarge NATOoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2024
War Economy: What is it, and why we will not transition to it?original ↗
28 May 2024
Hein and I wrote a piece for Foreign Affairs on why Russia is the obstacle to peaceoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2024

2023

Some Notes on the “Korean War” Scenariooriginal ↗
3 Sept 2023
The Ukrainian Offensive, Part 2: The Situation in Russiaoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2023
The Ukrainian Offensive, part 1: The Military Situationoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2023
The First Month of the Ukrainian Offensiveoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2023
The Ukrainian Offensive Has Begunoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2023
Accidental Nuclear War: Don’t Lose Sleep over Itoriginal ↗
22 May 2023
The Coming Ukrainian Offensiveoriginal ↗
12 May 2023
What Macron Doing?original ↗
12 Apr 2023
The Russian Offensive That Wasn’toriginal ↗
31 Mar 2023
How to fake a scholarly argument — Abrahms in The Atlanticoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2023
How not to reason about the war — Allison in The Washington Postoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2023
NYT publishes another call for Ukraine to surrenderoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2023
The Gerasimov Offensive isn’t “coming” — it’s hereoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2023
The turning point in the war happened todayoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2023
Western Support & the Gerasimov Offensiveoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2023
Nuclear Weapons and Ukraine: The Deterrent that Never Wasoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2023
Send the tanks!original ↗
8 Jan 2023
Putin wants total waroriginal ↗
5 Jan 2023
Chronicles of Mordor, part 1original ↗
4 Jan 2023
ZSU’s strike on Makiivka: It’s happened before, and will happen againoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2023
Russian elites, reform, and the Westoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2023

2022

The West is still fighting the wrong waroriginal ↗
29 Dec 2022
Problems with morale in the Ukrainian military? Not reallyoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2022
A Russian attack from Belarus might be coming in just a few daysoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2022
Will the Russian Federation fall apart?original ↗
17 Dec 2022
Lies, damned lies, and stupidity: Gfoeller & Rundell in Newsweekoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2022
A dive into support for war in Russia (and the US)original ↗
11 Dec 2022
Russia is, for now, the insurmountable obstacle to peaceoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2022
Washington Post publishes another call to surrender to Putinoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2022
Walt lectures us on “dispassionate” analysis — maybe he should learn to thinkoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2022
The Pope goes full racist: on the whitewashing of collective guiltoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2022
Foreign Affairs in Wonderland: Stanovaya and imaginary “peacemakers”original ↗
25 Nov 2022
Peak dishonesty: Mearsheimer in The New Yorkeroriginal ↗
19 Nov 2022
It does not matter what happens, Putin must be given a slice of Ukraine: Walt in FPoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2022
Another abominable Putin-verstehener: vanden Heuvel in the WaPooriginal ↗
15 Nov 2022
Countering the Russian narrativesoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2022
Russia announces withdrawal from Khersonoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2022
Realism without reality: Kupchan in the NYToriginal ↗
4 Nov 2022
When analogies go to war: Lieven on “the West” misreading the Russo-Ukrainian Waroriginal ↗
2 Nov 2022
Russia is never as strong as we fear, or as weak as we hopeoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2022
Reading tea leaves: Retreat from Kherson & the Wagner Lineoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2022
The “private” military groups of Russiaoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2022
The impending loss of Kherson: How will Putin spin it?original ↗
20 Oct 2022
Travails in Mobilizationoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2022
Russian “liberals” are no friends to Ukraine, part 1original ↗
14 Oct 2022
The Tragedy of Putin’s Rule: Turning Decent Russians into Monstersoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2022
The Russians resort to terrorism: why?original ↗
11 Oct 2022
Blaming the Generals won’t fix anythingoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2022
The coming pogrom of the Russian Defense Ministry?original ↗
6 Oct 2022
The gradual disintegration of central authority in Russia continuesoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2022
The Last Empireoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2022
Ukraine might have gone on the offensive in the South as welloriginal ↗
2 Oct 2022
Putin’s Military Solution?original ↗
29 Sept 2022
Endgameoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2022
Who will be mobilized in Russia now?original ↗
23 Sept 2022
Putin decrees mobilizationoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2022
To annex, or not to annex, that is (maybe?) the questionoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2022
What is the Russian military, really?original ↗
19 Sept 2022
The Russian attacks on infrastructure and the Dnipro River damsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2022
The ZSU Offensives in Kharkiv and Kherson, some comparisonsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2022
The imperialists in Russia see redoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2022
Russian Fascism in Action: Teaching Ukrainian Kidsoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2022
To mobilize or not to mobilize, that is the questionoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2022
The Ukrainian Nationoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2022
Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: A Conundrum for the West?original ↗
15 Sept 2022
What is Kadyrov up to? The coming independence of Chechnya?original ↗
14 Sept 2022
Next steps for Russia?original ↗
14 Sept 2022
ZSU Counter-Offensive Updateoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2022
The War in Ukraine: What Now?original ↗
11 Sept 2022
The Rout of the Russian Army in the Northoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2022
Blitzkrieg, Ukrainian-styleoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2022
Collapse of Russian defenses in the Northoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2022
Counter-attack on Kherson will not come… but!original ↗
6 Sept 2022
The Kremlin’s Fairy-Tales & Dugina’s Assassinationoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2022
The Forever War: Why is there no Ukrainian counter-attack?original ↗
14 Aug 2022
Atrocities and the Slow Death of Russia, Part 2original ↗
5 Aug 2022
Atrocities and the Slow Death of Russiaoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2022
The Fifth Month of the War in Ukraineoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2022
The war grinds on while Russia’s near-abroad erupts in turmoiloriginal ↗
20 Jun 2022
Putin’s boa constrictor strategy vs West Cunctatororiginal ↗
16 Jun 2022
War of attrition and maneuvers in the succession struggleoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2022
Should you pray for Putin’s demise?original ↗
6 Jun 2022
To victory and beyond?original ↗
4 Jun 2022
Fighting stalls as politics heat up: Will the West hold the line?original ↗
3 Jun 2022
Russia is bogging down, schism in the Churchoriginal ↗
30 May 2022
Western Europe is stabbing Ukraine in the backoriginal ↗
26 May 2022
War Update: fighting toward uti possidetis or Ukrainian victoryoriginal ↗
24 May 2022
War Update: Russians breaking through in Luhanskoriginal ↗
20 May 2022
Collective West, now is not the time to go wobblyoriginal ↗
20 May 2022
The contraction of Russia’s war aims in Eastern Ukraine, March through Juneoriginal ↗
16 May 2022
Putin’s useful idiots — unbelievably, still in Berlin and Parisoriginal ↗
15 May 2022
War Update: Snake Island, missiles, and Moldovaoriginal ↗
15 May 2022
South Ossetia about to become a problem?original ↗
15 May 2022
The “Freedom for Russia” Legionoriginal ↗
15 May 2022
Some updates about potential mobilization in Russiaoriginal ↗
14 May 2022
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