Author: John Digweed

By all appearances, the ceasefire was holding—at least in the way ceasefires often do in this region: tentatively, informally, and riddled with caveats. But yesterday, the uneasy calm shattered when...

By now, the myth of Russian invincibility is wearing thin—and not just on the battlefields of Ukraine. What we’re witnessing is something deeper, more volatile, and far more revealing: the...

By all appearances, the Russian economy is heading for the kind of cliff most regimes don’t survive. The numbers are dire, the language coming out of Moscow is alarmingly defensive,...

It’s a strange time to scroll through TikTok and stumble across Gen Z dancing in vintage World War II outfits, treating the prospect of global conflict like a quirky fashion...

When you listen to Vladimir Putin speak, it’s tempting to dismiss his words as bluster, the kind of grandiose posturing you’d expect from a man who’s clung to power for...

In a stunning reversal of battlefield dynamics, Russia’s military—once feared as the dominant airpower of the post-Soviet world—is being systematically dismantled by an opponent it underestimated from the outset: Ukraine....

Vladimir Putin’s grip on power is weakening—not in some distant future, but right now. The collapse is not theoretical, nor symbolic. It’s visible in the burning wreckage of Russian airbases,...

Despite the Kremlin’s insistence on normalcy, the Russian economy is in a state of silent collapse. That was the consensus in a recent conversation between political analyst Jason Jay Smart...

In a wide-ranging conversation between political analyst Jason Jay Smart and retired U.S. General Ben Hodges, the two discussed a growing and unexpected trend in global conflict: authoritarian regimes are...