Long Way Still But Rebuilding Ukraine Through Reparations?
27 May 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine is entering its fourth month. Ukrainian President Zelenskky told the Davos 2022 World Economic Forum that Ukraine suffered a loss of more…
Putin’s Victory Day Speech: Tepid, but There’s a Rising Scapegoat
10 May 2022 President Putin marked the first Victory Day celebration since their invasion of Ukraine. Obviously, the usual pomp and circumstance of a military parade in Red Square occurred.…
Russia has Surrendered its Sovereignty
17 April 2022 We are watching a significant moment in history unfold before our eyes in Ukraine, a heroic struggle that will be spoken of for centuries. We need to…
Hypersonic Missiles and Ukrainian Air Defence Woes
22 March 2022 Russia claims that it used a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missile against a large Ukrainian munitions depot in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region. This would be the first…
Ukrainian Children and Maternity Wards Bombed and a Significant New Russian Air Force Development
9 March 2022 Eyes on Mariupol The intense shelling of the port city of Mariupol (population close to 400,000), as with many Ukrainian cities, has been going on for days.…
The Balkans: The Next Domino After Ukraine.
4 March 2022 Last week DefRep reported in the opening days of Russia’s appalling assault on Ukraine that as part of Putin’s attempt to upend the international order Moscow has…
Ukraine’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant on Fire due to Russian Shelling
3 March 2022 * Updated 4 March 2022, 0736 PST The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest of its kind in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world, is on…
The West is Morally Bankrupt and Ukraine is Paying the Price.
26 February 2022 *28 February 2022* Correction: Snake Island defenders are alive but were captured. Article corrected. As I watch Russia invade Ukraine, led by a lunatic, and justified by…
Why Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine should worry NATO as a whole
23 February 2022 Russia’s move into Ukraine should be seen as a wider and more nefarious strategy that has been in existence for 15 years – the 2007 Bronze Soldier…
ISIS-K Attacks are a Precursor to What the Spring Will Bring
19 November 2021 The attacks perpetrated by the ISIS chapter in Afghanistan, ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), have been on the rise. The head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons,…