11+ hour, 1+ min ago   (43+ words) Monday 14 September 2026 Russia does not need to invade Poland Ukraine is therefore part of NATO’s defence Europe must become capable of saying yes without Washington The response must be greater than the test NATO without America — and therefore NATO with…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (186+ words) Thursday 10 September 2026 That is where the analogy with the 1930s becomes useful, provided that it is employed carefully. Under these circumstances the appeal of radical simplification is obvious. This may be one of the most important characteristics of the contemporary European…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (534+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 The inheritance of an empire This has produced the central paradox of Putinism. The harder Russia has tried to restore her empire, the more rapidly many of her former imperial possessions have sought protection against her. Russia is…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1027+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 Indeed, the paradox may ultimately be that Vladimir Putin’s attempt to prevent the emergence of a strong, European Ukraine has accelerated precisely that outcome. The country that will emerge from the war The arsenal of Europe Russia sought…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (21+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 From Lviv to Kyiv From volunteer to defence professional The second front: reconstruction The republic of volunteers...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1561+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 Ukraine should be prepared to compromise substantially to end this terrible war. She should not compromise upon anything that determines whether Russia can successfully start it again. That distinction ought to define the Ukrainian red lines. The value…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1558+ words) Tuesday 8 September 2026 This would amount to something approaching maximum financial pressure. It would not end the war tomorrow. But conducted intelligently, it might help make 2027 look sufficiently unpleasant in Moscow that the peace terms rejected in 2026 begin to appear considerably…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (643+ words) Monday 7 September 2026 Caritas is one of these organisations. The work of Caritas in Ukraine illustrates an important truth about modern war. A country does not survive merely because her army continues to fight. She survives because, behind the soldiers, there…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (653+ words) Monday 7 September 2026 There are two famous propositions about war and politics, and the war in Ukraine provides an unusually terrible laboratory in which to test them. The first belongs to Carl von Clausewitz: War is the continuation of politics by…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1503+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 The visitor to Kyiv The story begins remarkably early in the full-scale war. On 2 June 2022, barely three months after Russia’s invasion, Palantir chief executive Alex Karp travelled to Kyiv. He was reportedly the first chief executive of a…...