Rubio Neo-Conned Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan
Lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas; lie down with neocons, you wake up with wars, says Daniel McAdams. So goes Trump’s 28-point plan to end the Russia-Ukraine…
A Mediator’s Guide to Ukraine
The Ukraine War is an extremely dangerous war between nuclear superpowers in a world desperately in need of peace and cooperation.
Scott Ritter: The Onus Is on Biden & Putin
We are, literally, on the eve of destruction. Now is the time for the kind of political maturity leaders rarely demonstrate.
Putin Approves Annexation of Ukrainian Territories at Ceremony Friday
Russia's two houses of parliament need to ratify the annexations.
EU Parliamentarian Calls to Sanction Vanessa Beeley and All Observers of Donbass Referendums
MEP Nathalie Louiseau of France is lobbying for individual sanctions on all observers of the Russian-organized referendums in the Donbass region. She has singled out journalist Vanessa Beeley not only…
How the Ukraine War Changed Overnight
By declaring referenda in four Ukrainian regions and vowing to defend new Russian territory with all means necessary, Vladimir Putin has created a whole new war.
As Falls Russia, So Falls the World
North Korea has been driven ever closer to fellow nuclear powers Russia and China, and is poised to become a leading member of a possible future “Eurasian Union of autocracies.”
Patrick Lawrence: “The Narrative Is Coming Apart”
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost “In total, more than a thousand square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine have been liberated since the beginning of September,” Volodymyr Zelensky…
Patrick Lawrence: Unmaking History
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Every young journalist knows, and probably most newspaper readers know, too, the old thought: Journalists write the first draft of history. I like…
Putin’s Russia: People Increasingly Identify With the Soviet Union—Here’s What That Means
By Stephen Whitefield and Paul Chaisty, University of Oxford / The Conversation The view that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, wants to restore territories of the Soviet Union has been…
Patrick Lawrence: Zelensky Purge Ignored by Western Media
Zelensky’s purging of top officials as "traitors" ignored by Western media cheerleaders.
I led talks on Donbas and Crimea in the 90s. Here’s How the War Should End.
After the USSR’s breakup, the OSCE knew that the large number of Russian speakers in Ukraine would become an issue.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Exit From the Ukraine Crisis That’s Hiding in Plain Sight
The crisis over Ukraine grows simultaneously more dangerous and more absurd. There is, however, a glimmer of hope.