Tag: RUSSIA

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  May 25, 2026: The War Goes on and on and on…

  May 25, 2026: The War Goes on and on and on… On May 22, a drone strike tore through a student dormitory in Starobilsk, leaving dozens of civilians dead or wounded, and Moscow wasted no time casting blame on Kyiv. In “retaliation,” the Kremlin launched one of the largest missile and drone barrages on the

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  May 18, 2026: The Boy Who Cried Sarmat

  May 18, 2026: The Boy Who Cried Sarmat On May 12, Russia test-fired the world’s largest missile, the 208-ton Sarmat ICBM. That same week, Ukrainian drones penetrated Moscow’s heavily-defended airspace to strike industrial plants and oil refineries. Against the backdrop of this asymmetry, Sergey Karaganov has returned to state television to argue that Russia must

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  Reality Always Wins | Who Russians Really Want in Charge

  In his latest Reality Always Wins post, Paul Saunders digs into a striking recent finding: 55% of economically-active Russians say they’d prefer to be governed by an AI algorithm than by their current corrupt officials. Saunders reads the result less as enthusiasm for machine rule than as a quiet protest vote against Russia’s political system—a

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  US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory: From Nixon to Trump

  What happens when a president convinces the world he might just do the unthinkable? In US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory, James D. Boys argues that projecting calculated irrationality can terrify adversaries into submission, but at enormous risk. From Nixon’s secret Cold War gambits to Trump’s chaotic tweet-driven diplomacy, Boys explores how these two

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  May 11, 2026: “The Matter Is Coming to an End”

  May 11, 2026: «The Matter Is Coming to an End» During his lengthy press conference following the May 9 Victory Day parade, Vladimir Putin slipped in an almost offhand remark that “the matter is coming to an end” — a phrase Western outlets quickly seized on as a signal that the war in Ukraine may

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