I don’t want to quote Ye or link you to a video. Actually, I urge you not to engage with his content that has been spewing on the internet. But there is a line at which we have to be public and shout from the rooftops that we refuse to…

I wanted to take some time to recommend a biography on Stalin I read at the beginning of the semester; I am doing my MA at McGill university and I read this book for my reading course on Stalinism. Oleg V. Khlevniuk’s book, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator portrays…

It has been more than nine months since Putin’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine. And we can now say with confidence that Ukraine has turned the tide with resolution — Ukraine is winning. We’re beginning to see Putin stumbling, after his failed mobilization and retreat from Kherson, among other key developments. …

One problem I have with the way some Ukrainian journalists have been complaining about the EU’s insistence to not get involved militarily is that they say that the EU has it easy in this war. And, yes, comparatively, the EU has it very easy in comparison to the residents of…

As much as we would like to think that external factors will win this war, most of us are increasingly realizing that Putin doesn’t care about sanctions, deaths, or political shaming. Sanctions harm the people more than himself and his oligarchs; he can choose to never deal with the families…

Europe is about to have its hardest winter since the 1970s. The European Union is at risk of experiencing serious economic and political upheaval. In Prague, more than 70,000 or so mobilized in Wenceslas Square to protest against the Czech government’s supportive stance toward Ukraine. Other major cities followed suit. …

Arguably, the largest development since the beginning of Putin’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine occurred just a few hours before writing this. Western intelligence sources report that Russian missiles crossed into Poland, killing two people, just 10 km out of the Ukrainian border in a village called Przewodow. Poland has called…

Since Russia’s war in Ukraine has reached a relative stalemate in recent weeks, lasting from at least September 2022, depending on who you ask, many have been turning their gaze toward the instability of Putin’s regime. But are these calls for Putin’s instability warranted? Maybe he is not standing on…

Europeans were overwhelmingly very pleased to hear about the fact that the EU granted Ukraine candidate status over the summer, in June 2022. Both politicians and the people were in support of this resolution. When I briefly spoke to the Ministry of Defense in Czechia with some friends about this…