When America as Ally Becomes a Source of Uncertainty
For Ukraine, the challenge of a supposed ally betraying its ideals is even starker: how to defend sovereignty when the language of power increasingly favors aggressors over victims.
Culture Keeps Us Warm: How Art Sustains Ukrainians During Wintertime Genocidal Attacks
As Russia weaponizes winter and targets infrastructure, Ukrainian culture endures. In dark homes and cold halls, art becomes resistance, therapy, and collective strength.
Greenland as a Breaking Point – America Against Its Own Alliance
In Moscow, Putin watches with cynical satisfaction; in Beijing, Xi Jinping sees confirmation that the liberal order is crumbling from within, without a single shot fired.
How Trump’s Greenland Gambit Will Influence the Kremlin’s Negotiating Strategy
Moscow is closely watching tensions rise between Europe and Trump as he lurches deeper into his imperialistic mode, calling on Denmark to cede Greenland to the US.
A Low Temperature Holodomor
Russia is attempting to freeze Ukrainians to death. It has substituted cold for the starvation of the 1930s, but the motive is just as barbaric.
Greenland & the Need for a New Internationalism
The West is history. Muscle up for a post-Western world of illiberal international disorder.
In Washington: More Chaos and Shame
Maria Corino Machado plays the primitive narcissist in the White House while Ukraine continues to stand firm and defy Trump’s bluster.
Why Putin Isn’t Interested in Ending the War
Putin’s war has become a system for managing Russia itself – manpower, prisons, loyalty, and a potentially dangerous new elite forged in a war of aggression.
How Delay and Appeasement Have Left Ukraine Freezing and in Darkness
In the case of Ukraine, Trump has not been a peacemaker, but a war prolonger, and his collusion with Putin is dragging the war on needlessly into a fifth year.
Why Russia Went to War Against Ukraine
The reason Russia is attempting to annul Ukraine as a sovereign state has little to do with NATO. The roots of the war lie in Russian imperialism that existed long before NATO
Zelensky Is Not the Last Word in Ukraine on a Peace Deal
Western leaders may near a Ukraine peace deal, but Ukrainians will decide. Polls show they want peace with security, reject territorial concessions, and distrust Putin to honor any deal.
What Can Europe Do for America?
Confrontation won’t work with Trump. A pragmatic deal over Greenland could help Europe assert itself, reinforce NATO, and keep the US invested in European security.
OPINION: The Bill for Crimea Comes Due for Putin
Crimea, a symbol of Putin neo-imperial project, has become the place that will bankrupt Putin’s political capital.
July 11, 2026