It has now been seven months since Vladimir Putin launched his illegal and unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Of course, those of us familiar with Ukrainian modern history know that Putin violated Ukrainian independence before February 24th, 2022. In 2013, he sent “peacekeeping” forces to Kyiv, Maidan Square, which resulted…

Many are fleeing Russia since the call for the partial mobilization of at least 300,000 Russians. Turkey is a popular destination because Russians do not require a visa for entry. Serbia is experiencing similarly packed flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg since they too do not require a visa from…

You may have heard that a referendum is taking place in Donbas, Ukraine. The final count is meant to be revealed toward the end of September 2022. Many have been calling the recent referenda in Donbas a “sham,” violating international law and threatening the sovereignty of an independent nation. But…

You have all seen the news by now. Many seem to be leaving Russia, as Putin called for the partial mobilization of some 2.5 million Russian citizens. A similar partial mobilization was called under Stalin after Hitler broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (a non-aggression pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany)…

Russia has been losing lately. They have lost the majority of the territory they occupied in the Kharkiv region in Ukraine. But the war is not over — and perhaps it’s far from over. On Wednesday morning, 21st of September, 2022, Putin finally took to national television to inform the…

How serious is the threat to Putin’s tenure as the ruler of the Russian Federation? It’s clear that Ukraine has put Russian forces to the test in Ukraine; I discuss that in my latest post. But Russia is not ready to give up. Referenda in eastern and southern Ukraine may…

Over the last couple of weeks, Ukrainian troops have staged a remarkably unprecedented counteroffensive against the Russian invaders. They have managed to almost entirely disband the Russians in the Kharkiv oblast and at the same time apply tremendous military pressure in the Donbas and Kherson oblasts. Very few thought that…

This is the last post in my five-part series where I looked at some of the core arguments from five chapters of my book, Beyond Reason: Why We Fail at Understanding Each Other. …

My five-part series comprising arguments from my book, Beyond Reason: Why We Fail at Understanding Each Other, continues. In this post, I will glance at why the prospect of objective and universalizable truth is threatened by disinformation. And my argument is fairly simple: If we are not starting off with…