There is increasingly talk in the normally slavishly militarist Western media about the need for peace in both Ukraine and Gaza, a negotiated peace based on talking with the very enemies, Palestine and Iran and Russia, that they have been assiduously demonizing for the ...
putin. what is the history between ukraine and russia? russia and ukraine have what either side might describe as a common or complicated legacy that dates back a thousand years. in the last century, ukraine, known as the breadbasket of europe, was one of the most populous and powerful repu...
Russia and Ukraine fighting the same battle, 100 years apart Another feature of the battle for Bakhmut, Mr Bell says, is the difference in styles of warfare between the Ukrainians and the Russians. "Russia has simply got untrained conscripts, 'here's a gun, fire it'. "And...
Russia chose a hot war and will get a cold one in the bargain.Ukraine follows the pattern of limited war in the nuclear age.Whatever some interpretations of Russian military doctrine might suggest, Moscow will not use nuclear weapons during the conflict. Since 1945, every leader of a nuclear...
S. administration has reasons to keep fueling the already-strained Russia-Ukraine tensions: one is to use the crisis to divert domestic attention and build momentum for the upcoming mid-term elections; the other is to revive its influence over Europe by uniting its European allies against Russia...
Ukraine’s leadership said at least 40 people had been killed so far in what it called a “full-scale war” targeting the country from the east, north and south. It said Russia’s intent was to destroy the state of Ukraine, a Western-looking democracy intent on moving out of ...
Goodhand, Jonathan, `War, peace and the places in between: Why borderlands are central.' in Whose peace? : Critical perspectives on the political economy of peacebuilding. Basingstoke [England] and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Goodhand, Jonathan. 2008. War, peace and the palace in ...
Tsaplienko is as fearless a journalist as they come. Some of Ukraine's military leaders say they're surprised he's still alive. Battle scarred and limping, he joined the 80th Air Assault Brigade last month in a forest close to Russia's border. He likes to be in the middle of the st...
Wherever there is violent conflict, boundaries and borders are taken seriously. As the quote above implies, boundaries play an ambiguous role, acting simultaneously as source of security and antagonism, inclusion and exclusion. Which boundaries become salient and on which side of the boundary one sta...
And on the world's hotspot issues like the protracted Ukraine crisis and the still-raging Palestine-Israel conflict, they have their distinctive points of view. As British scholar Martin Jacques has argued, the Global South needs the right of their civilizations to be heard and represented. ...