The war in Ukraine as a symptom of a global crisis The long exchange between John Mearsheimer and Sergey Karaganov is not merely a discussion about the war in Ukraine. It is, in reality, a confrontation between two schools of strategic thought which, despite starting from different assumptions,…
Posts tagged as “geopolitical analysis”
The invisible war Moscow decided to institutionalize There comes a moment when a state stops fighting only on the battlefield and decides to turn clandestinity into a permanent function of power. For the Russia of total war, that moment seems to have a precise name: Center 795. Not…
There is a thread connecting the preparation for the Iraq war in 2002-2003 and the way the West has handled the Ukrainian conflict: the unhealthy relationship between intelligence and political decision-making. Back then, while the case for war against Saddam Hussein was being built, the CIA raised substantial…
A War That Does Not Protect Us There is one point Europe continues to avoid, as if it had become inconvenient even to name it: the attack on Iran is not merely another episode in the long hostility between the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic. It…