In the latest edition of Survival: Global Politics and Strategy I review excellent books by Michael Kimmage Yaroslav Trofimov Simon Shuster and Kimmo Rentula's "How Finland Survived Stalin". tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

What a story by ⁦Sune Engel Rasmussen⁩ about the drug lord who keeps the Netherlands frightened. wsj.com/world/europe/e…

DEEP DIVE: A Bloomberg News investigation takes an inside look at a vast #Iran-#Russia trading network said to be steered by the son of a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. bloomberg.com/news/features/… w Jack Wittels Archie & co. via Bloomberg Bloomberg Energy

"Chinese authorities have launched a campaign to change the term that people use to refer to Mongolian culture…The…new official term, bei jiang wenhua, meaning ‘northern frontier culture’, eliminates reference to Mongolians." Bethany 貝書穎 aspistrategist.org.au/northern-front…

Is Georgia 🇬🇪 on the verge of total rupture with the West? 🔴 I return to meet a family we helped save during the 2008 war with Russia. Their story explains how that catastrophic defeat, and the ongoing tragedy in Ukraine, drive Georgia’s turbulent politics ahead of pivotal

Congratulations to this year's Shortlisted Finalists for the #PetersonLiteraryPrize in nonfiction: Luke Harding Yaroslav Trofimov John Sweeney logvynenko Mikhail Zygar #MyroslavLaiuk #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar petersonliteraryfund.com/events-and-inf…

Russia bombs residential high-rises in Kharkiv. Many dead and injured.

Looking at 2008 photos of the Georgia 🇬🇪 war on my phone, struck by how similar it looked to occupied parts of Ukraine today — down to the white armbands civilians were forced by Russian invaders to wear, in Tkviavi or in Bucha.

Ukraine, however, is not allowed to use its U.S.-provided missiles to target the airfield from which these guided bombs are launched.

Zelensky fires the commander of Ukraine’s Air Force (who is also responsible for air defenses) a day after the loss of one of Ukraine’s few F-16 pilots and aircraft (in unclear circumstances during a Russian missile barrage Monday) becomes public. t.me/V_Zelenskiy_of…

Unbelievable story of two Colombian volunteers who fought with the International Legion in #Ukraine 🇺🇦. One their way home they had a layover in #Venezuela 🇻🇪, where they were arrested at the airport and subsequently deported to #Russia 🇷🇺 where they're now facing trial.

“We have had political differences in Georgia, sometimes very harsh, but no matter these differences, all the 🇬🇪governments were clearly pro-Western. Now this is the first time that the government is changing the geopolitical orientation of the nation.” wsj.com/world/georgia-…

Ukraine strikes back overnight with drone attacks that hit a major refinery and power plants in Moscow and nearby regions.

If you were to look at these videos three years ago, I don’t know what would be most shocking: the inability of Russian air defenses to prevent Ukraine from destroying the core of its energy infrastructure, or the fact that it’s no longer even big news (and is nearly ignored on

𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 petersonliteraryfund.com Congratulations to the finalists! Luke Harding Yaroslav Trofimov logvynenko Mikhail Zygar John Sweeney #PetersonLiteraryPrize

Today we profile Yaroslav Trofimov's Yaroslav Trofimov book Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence, which was shortlisted for the 2024 Peterson Literary Prize for nonfiction. In this book, two-time Pulitzer-Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, chief