The Battle of Kursk 2024 - Russia Matters
Aug 8, 2024 · This analysis was originally posted on Mick Ryan's Substack and is reprinted here with the author's permission.. In a 1973 lecture, Sir Michael Howard described the impact of surprise, and the necessity of military institutions to prepare their people to absorb, and adapt around, surprises on the battlefield and beyond.He described how “this is an aspect of military science which needs to be ...
BRICS Overtook G-7 in Key Components of National Power—So …
Oct 23, 2024 · As Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts the first summit of BRICS+ in Tatarstan’s capital Kazan on Oct. 22–24, it has motivated me to update my comparison of this group of countries with the G-7 in terms of components of national power as of early 2024. This comparison has reaffirmed my earlier findings that BRICS has overtaken the G-7—which some in the former want to position as a ...
Comparing Pathways to Peace in Ukraine | Russia Matters
Aug 30, 2024 · Introduction. Deep into the third year of a devastating war, early optimism that Ukraine could push Russian troops off its territory seems a distant memory, as does Russia’s early ambition to fully subjugate its obstreperous neighbor.
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3 Ideas to Explore. Ukrainian intelligence believes that Russia is gearing up for a bold assault on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, which is located 30 kilometers from the front, according to a Nov. 25 story in The Economist, entitled “Ukraine’s warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south.”Vladimir Putin’s war machine is …
How Western Curbs on Russian Oil Revenue Benefit China
Oct 3, 2024 · Russia’s decisive turn toward China—politically, economically and technologically—has been among the most notable geopolitical consequences of President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.
The Russia-Ukraine War Report Card, April 30, 2024
Feb 24, 2022 · Who’s Winning and Who’s Losing What? Territorial Control 1. Report Card* Change in control of Ukrainian territory. Since Feb. 24, 2022:. Russia: +25,000 square miles. 11% of Ukraine.
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5 days ago · The document ushers in an expansion of conditions under which Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons, but contains few surprises for those who have followed the Russian leadership’s nuclear rhetoric since the re-invasion of Ukraine.
The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine War - Russia Matters
Jun 23, 2022 · This is the full text of a speech given on June 16 by John J. Mearsheimer at the European Union Institute (EUI) and published by The National Interest under the headline "The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis." Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Russia Analytical Report, Nov. 12-18, 2024 | Russia Matters
Nov 12, 2018 · 3 Ideas to Explore. President Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia’s Kursk region with longer-range ATACMS missiles supplied by the U.S. has sparked a furious response in Russia, including warnings of WWIII and a nuclear exchange, according to BBC’s Russia editor Steve Rosenberg and Republic.ru’s contributor Timofei Panov. 1 While angry with Biden’s choice ...
Tim Walz on Russia and Ukraine
Aug 20, 2024 · Since Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as her running mate on Aug. 6, the U.S. press has published dozens of news stories on what qualities make the Minnesota governor most appealing to American voters concerned with domestic issues. Significantly less, however, could be found in American media on Walz’s record and views on foreign policy issues in general, and U.S. policies in the post-Soviet ...