Category: Ukraine
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The world is reeling
While the world is still reeling from Putin’s so called special police operation in Ukraine a year ago, Diplomats were left clutching their sides in bellyaches of laughter, after the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of attacking Russia. This so called recalling of the special police operation into a farce that is reminiscent…
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One in ten
One thousand casualties per day, one in ten Russian’s know somebody who has been killed, but is the message getting through to the Russians that this an incredibly costly war for the Russian military. It was not evident to the world after Putin’s speech to the state, nor was it evident when he postured in…
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What Ukraine wants
What to make of Biden’s trip to Kiev and Putin’s speech, are just distractions from what Ukraine needs. The question has to be can Ukraine win with current losses, 100,000 either dead or injured. Russia itself is haemorrhaging manpower, 200,000 dead or wounded, a statistic of 2:1 in favour of the Ukrainians. But the argument…
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The message from Ukraine was thank you, but…..
The message from Ukraine was thank you for all your help, thank you for the artillery, thank you for the missile defence systems, but we need tanks. We are fighting not just for Ukraine, but Europe as well. We are fighting to defend the free world from Putin, President Zelensky argued in a speech to…
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Ukraine
Putin is tactically clever, he has moved his country onto a war footing after the special operation failed. He constantly adapts, out manoeuvring and moving the Ukrainian war into something other than a territorial reach to far. The initial plan failed because much to the detriment of his own beliefs that President Zelensky would flee…
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Korber Stiftung – Conference in Berlin
With Britain gone from Europe, there needs to be a coordinated voice in Europe, and the Berlin Forum, hosted by Korber Stiftung, explores the themes and concerns that are key elements to Germany’s foreign policy. Critical ideas and conceptual understanding of events in Ukraine have shaken Europe, and has challenged the essence of European hegemony because…
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Snapshot of Ukraine’s economy
Just before the war in Ukraine, I pointed out that after Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the Russian economy grew by 4%, which meant that there had been growth in the Russian economy from 2014-2020, even after the sanctions placed on the Russian economy by Europe and the United States. A growth of 4% in an…
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