March 1, 2022 Having been a soldier and correspondent in 14 wars, I’m trying to see through the inevitable fog of war that beclouds the current conflict in Ukraine. This is no easy task. Moscow has done a poor job of explaining its position and scared the hell out of […]
February 20, 2022 World War III? Or a bad, expensive joke? Russia has declared a nuclear test alert. The Ukraine crisis is beginning to become very scary. When the old Soviet Union broke up, I and other moderates called for the former Moscow-dominated states of East Europe to become neutral. […]
January 25, 2022 Amid surging tensions over Ukraine, the head of Germany’s navy had the courage to voice Europe’s fears over this totally unnecessary, contrived crisis. In a speech to an Indian think tank, Vice-admiral Kay-Achim Schonbach proposed the Western powers ‘respect’ Russian leader Vladimir Putin and accept that Crimea […]
