Ukraine

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  12/2/2022
  

  In Ukraine, "General Frost" Will Fight on Both Sides

  Military commanders in Eastern Europe have long tried to deal with the effects of bitter winter on morale and logistics. How is it likely to affect the Ukrainian counterattack against Russia? 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/28/2022
  

  The Anniversary of Ukrainian Famine Shows the Past isn't Past

  A famine 90 years ago killed four million Ukrainians—and possibly more, deaths survivors blamed on Soviet Russia. The commemoration is a rallying point of resistance to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  11/17/2022
  

  Putin's Invasion of Ukraine Won't Set Off a Nuclear Scramble

  by Eric Brewer, Nicholas L. Miller, and Tristan Volpe

  It seems that Russia's invasion of Ukraine may eventually help the cause of nuclear nonproliferation, if the United States approaches its allies with the right mix of defense assurances and aid to civilian nuclear power that may serve as a "hedge" to reassure other governments that they could develop weapons, even if they don't. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/7/2022
  

  Putin's Nuclear Threats are Warping the West's Ukraine Strategy

  by Anne Applebaum

  Nuclear bluster is a purposeful strategy to leverage fear to make NATO nations less willing to defend Ukraine and other nations neighboring Russia. How can they have a better response? 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/27/2022
  

  Small Nations, Big Feelings: America's Favored European Nations Before Ukraine

  by Madelyn Lugli

  "Feeling patriotism for a foreign country is, when you think about it, odd."

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• 11/6/2022
  

  Russian Soldiers' Calls Home Echo Moral Injury Testimony of Vietnam Vets

  by Elise Lemire

  Translations of intercepted calls from Russian soliders in Ukraine reveal guilt, shame, anger, and loss of faith in national institutions and leadership that echo the testimony of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Will these veterans help launch resistance to Russian militarism? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/1/2022
  

  Putin, Contending Ukraine Doesn't Exist, Seeks its Destruction

  by Olesya Khromeychuk

  Unfortunately for the Russian leader, despite widespread global ignorance of the substance of Ukrainian nationhood, repeated attempts to destroy it testify to its reality. 

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• 10/30/2022
  

  Between January 6 and Ukraine, Macho Men Threaten Democracy

  by Walter G. Moss

  "It would be simplistic to blame the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Putin’s misguided machismo, but it certainly is a factor."

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• SOURCE: National Interest
  10/26/2022
  

  Perspective: Using a Nuclear Weapon Would be Disastrous for Russia

  by Steve Cimbala and Lawrence J. Korb

  Russia has retained much of the Soviet-era's top-down command structure, which removes decisionmakers from both the real-world context and consequences of big decisions. This presents a danger that those leaders will misundersand the catastrophic result of a nuclear bomb. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/26/2022
  

  Putin Loyalists Steal Remains of Potemkin from Kherson

  The theft reflects contemporary Russian nationalists' view of Potemkin as the intellectual progenitor of a Greater Russia. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/24/2022
  

  Tim Snyder: Why Putin Wants the Republicans in Power

  Although the Republicans are split, it seems clear that Putin is working to boost the isolationist elements of the MAGA movement at a moment when Ukrainian forces are close to defeating Russia's invasion with international and American support. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/20/2022
  

  German Debate About Arming Ukraine is an Argument About Germany

  by Anne Applebaum

  Do Germany's lessons from the Nazi era mean that Germans should help other natins resist aggressive war, or that Germany shouldn't be involved? Germans still aren't sure. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  10/15/2022
  

  Ukraine Isn't Munich, Berlin, or Vietnam: The Limits and Dangers of Historical Analogies

  by Christopher David LaRoche

  Analogies are vital cognitive shortcuts that enable us to comprehend complexity. But their usefulness means we risk transposing biases and fallacies about the past onto how we understand the present. 

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• 10/16/2022
  

  Putin's Strategy Echoing Hitler's Mistakes on Eastern Front

  by James Thornton Harris

  Although Vladimir Putin has called the Ukrainian leadership "Nazis" to justify invasion, the longer the Ukraine war drags on the more Putin's strategic errors resemble those made by Hitler on the eastern front.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  10/8/2022
  

  Putin Could Fall, but it Might Not Help the West Much

  by Jim Sleeper

  Those speculating on the possible precarity of Putin's regime should be wary of the illiberal and authoritarian tendencies rising in the West. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/11/2022
  

  Bombing Kyiv Into Submission? History Says "Unlikely"

  The utility of bombing civilian centers has been overrated, and the strength of the backlash such bombing creates underestimated, by military strategists. 

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• 10/9/2022
  

  What the Cuban Missile Crisis Teaches Us about Ending the Ukraine War

  by Walter G. Moss

  Many people have invoked JFK's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis as a reminder of the need for toughness in international confrontation. The equally vital but less popular lesson is that creative leadership is just as important. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/28/2022
  

  Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz are Wrong about the Weakness of "Woke" Militaries

  by Phillips Payson O’Brien

  It turns out that hypermasculinity, ruthlesness and reflexive brutality are liabilities in modern warfare. Ukraine is exhibit A. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/21/2022
  

  Sergey Radchenko on Putin's Mobilization Speech

  Putin's cautious declaration of a partial mobilization reflects his increasingly desperate military situation and the growing unpopularity of the Ukraine war in Russia. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  Who and What to Believe about Ukraine?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war test our ability as citizens to be aware of our biases in search of information and understanding.