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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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