... explains why Washington’s recent diplomatic push has been greeted with such attention. American officials insist their emerging 28-point peace plan is based on battlefield realities rather than wishful thinking. And the reality, as they see it, is blunt: Ukraine cannot win this war, but it could lose catastrophically. The goal of the plan is to prevent further losses and restore a more stable, if uncomfortable, equilibrium.
This is a standard approach to a conflict that is important for the participants ...
... October 30 “to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.” Yet despite the scale of both the exercises and the announcements, these developments amount to little more than routine measures aimed at maintaining nuclear deterrence.
Since Ukraine launched its first major counteroffensives in the autumn of 2022, Russia has seen lively debates over the nature and logic of deterrence. These discussions have produced a wide range of expert opinions—both on the very concept of deterrence ...
... – shifting the country’s center of gravity to the Urals and Siberia – is not just extremely beneficial, but also unavoidable, as the western, European vector has been blocked for the foreseeable future by Western policy that provoked the war in Ukraine.
Now that Europe is sinking into moral and political degradation, we must commence Siberization as soon as possible.
PROBLEMS IN THE EUROPEAN DIRECTION
In order to fully set the new course of the country’s development, “Siberize” it, turn ...
The possibility of a return to extreme-era dynamics cannot be dismissed
The Ukraine conflict may well pave the way for a larger scale Russia-NATO confrontation. While hard to fathom and with everything suggesting that the scenario remains quite unlikely, it relies on nuclear deterrence as its main pillar. But just how effective ...
... 2017. For Iran, 2023. Since then, war – in its modern, diffuse form – has intensified. This is not a new Cold War. Since 2022, the West’s campaign against Russia has grown more decisive. The risk of direct nuclear confrontation with NATO over the Ukraine conflict is rising. Donald Trump’s return to the White House created a temporary window in which such a clash could be avoided, but by mid-2025, hawks in the US and Western Europe had pushed us dangerously close again.
This war involves the ...
Three scenarios for the situation in Ukraine
Since Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to power in the spring of 2019, Ukraine’s political system
has seen fundamental changes
. The ongoing transformation goes beyond formal institutional logic and is taking on more and more distinctly authoritarian ...
... ago.
In the space of just a few weeks, the leaders of the EU’s most prominent countries issued ultimatums to Russia – with no thought as to what they might do if Moscow ignored them. Unsurprisingly, the efforts of the four most vocal backers of Ukraine – Britain, Germany, France, and Poland – collapsed into rhetorical theater with no follow-through.
Estonia, never one to miss a moment for posturing, saw a group of its sailors attempt to seize a foreign ship en route to St. Petersburg. The ...
Russia’s success in confronting the West on the Ukrainian issue has turned out to be, in many ways, connected with the support it received from the countries of the World Majority
Russia’s success in confronting the West on the Ukrainian issue has turned out to be, in many ways, connected with the support it received from the countries of the World Majority. This means that all global changes inevitably lead to a more active involvement of Russia than would be desirable from the point of view of...
... often the subject of heated debate: Whether we like it or not—we have arrived in the multipolar world order.
The players of the bipolar world are still making their presence felt, often with ill-considered decisions and actions. Panama, Greenland and Ukraine—just a few examples of the last throes of US imperialism. The drastic increase in import tariffs and their partial withdrawal by the Trump administration appears to be an attempt to prevent the multipolar world order after all. One thing is ...
... agreement as genuinely final.
Yet territory was not the true cause of this conflict. The deeper issue was decades of unresolved security contradictions. ‘Demilitarization’ – so prominently featured in Russia’s original demands – encompasses both Ukraine’s neutral status and the broader limitation of its military capabilities, whether through curtailing domestic production, cutting off external supplies, or reducing existing forces.
This demand is far from cosmetic. Fulfillment would overturn ...
