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The European Union’s Evolving Military Capability
January 27, 2023 | By Veronika Hornyák

Twenty years has passed since the EU established its first military missions in 2003, but progress has not been easy.
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January 27, 2023 | By Joel Hickman

With heavy combat operations about to intensify in Ukraine, will Germany’s Leopard 2 tank prove the decisive factor in defeating Russia?

Russia’s Return to Gulag Economics
January 27, 2023 | By Irina Borogan, Andrei Soldatov

Putin’s regime is seeking inspiration from the Stalin era to fill huge gaps in the labor force.

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US Victory Within Reach — Don’t Throw Away Ukraine’s Sacrifice Now

The Biden Administration needs to sharpen its public outreach ahead of a testing period on support for Ukraine.

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Morocco Breaks Africa’s Neutrality with Arms for Ukraine — Reports

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Morocco has become the first African state to provide military assistance to Ukraine, according to French, Czech, and Ukrainian reports.

December 21, 2022
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The European Union’s Evolving Military Capability
January 27, 2023
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Photo: The 14 Leopard battle tanks will be delivered to Ukraine by the end of March, training for Marder infantry fighting vehicles will begin imminently. Credit: @GermanyinUSA via Twitter. https://twitter.com/GermanyinUSA/status/1618715502171365380
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Russia’s Return to Gulag Economics
January 27, 2023
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Photo: A protester holds a placard with words 'Russians Are Against Putin And The War'. Members of the local Russian diaspora in Krakow join the global anti-war demonstration of all free Russians and protest against the war with Ukraine at the Adam Mickiewicz monument in the Main Square in Krakow. On Sunday, June 12, 2022, in Krakow, Poland. Credit: Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto
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January 26, 2023
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How Western Tanks Will Make a Difference in Ukraine
January 26, 2023
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Photo: Young boy waits for his mother as she takes out the luggage from the train from Kherson to Khmelnytskyi at Khmelnytskyi train station, December 19, 2022, in Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. Credit: Artur Widak/NurPhoto
Behind the Lines: Russia Steps up Ukrainian Deportations
January 25, 2023
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Photo: Ukrainian hryvnia banknotes are seen in a photo illustration shot in Kiev, Ukraine, August 6, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin/Ullustration/File Photo
Rebuilding Ukraine: A Historic Plan for Congress
January 25, 2023
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Photo: A mural depicting Wagner private military group is seen on a wall in Belgrade, Serbia, January 18, 2023. Credit: REUTERS/Marko Djurica
Wagner and the Serbs
January 25, 2023
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Photo: Estonia helps with the training of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Credit: @GeneralStaffUA via Twitter. https://twitter.com/GeneralStaffUA/status/1571441062715031553/photo/3
Mighty Baltics Lead the NATO Pack
January 25, 2023
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Photo: Travellers from Russia drive after crossing the border to Georgia at the at the Zemo Larsi/Verkhny Lars station, Georgia September 26, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze
Georgia’s High-Risk Balancing Act
January 24, 2023
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Photo: The main weapon of the Leopard 2 main battle tank is the 120 mm smoothbore gun. Credit: Bundeswehr/Jörg Koch https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/ausruestung-technik-bundeswehr/landsysteme-bundeswehr/leopard-2
Germany to Crocodile: Eat Me Last
January 23, 2023
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Photo: Power-generating windmill turbines are seen at an offshore wind farm, Kriegers Flak, in the Baltic Sea between Denmark, Sweden and Germany, September 6, 2021. Credit: Ritzau Scanpix/Olafur Steinar Gestsson/via REUTERS
Predators Will Circle Baltic Power Farms
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Photo: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands in front of a German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun Flakpanzer Gepard during a visit of the training program for Ukrainian soldiers on the Gepard anti-aircraft tank in Putlos near Oldenburg, Germany August 25, 2022. Credit: Axel Heimken/Pool via REUTERS
Germany: Exporting Irresponsibility
January 21, 2023
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Photo: Women cry as they take part in a rally demanding international leaders to organize a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of Ukrainian military and civilians from Mariupol, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in central Kyiv, Ukraine April 30, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Our Debt to Ukraine — Payback Time
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Credit: Workers look at a drilling rig at a well pad of the Rosneft-owned Prirazlomnoye oil field outside the West Siberian city of Nefteyugansk, Russia, August 4, 2016. Credit: REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo
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January 17, 2023
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HNLMS BRUINVIS debalasting during submarine rescue exercise DYNAMIC MONARCH, 19 May, 2014. Credit: Credit: Flt.SGT ARTIGUES/FRAF/NATO
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Photo: Cadets of a military academy attend the funeral of Dmitry Menshikov, a mercenary for the private Russian military company Wagner Group, killed during the military conflict in Ukraine, in the Alley of Heroes at a cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia December 24, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Igor Russak
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Photo: Visit to 230th combined-arms military exercise area Obuz-Lesnovsky. Credit: President of the Republic of Belarus website. https://president.gov.by/en/photos-for-press
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Photo: Ukrainian servicemen fire an anti-aircraft gun towards Russian positions on a frontline near the town of Bakhmut, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine January 15, 2023. Credit: REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak
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Photo: Black Sea Oil & Gas delivers first gas from the MGD Project. Credit: Black Sea Oil and Gas. https://www.blackseaog.com/black-sea-oil-gas-delivers-first-gas-from-the-mgd-project/
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Photo: A person shows a passport to a Russian law enforcement officer during a rally, after opposition activists called for street protests against the mobilisation of reservists ordered by President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, Russia September 24, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHER
Kremlin Crosshairs Focus on Exiles
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Photo: Employees work on the newly erected monument of grand prince Vladimir I, who initiated the christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988AD, with towers of the Kremlin seen in the background, in central Moscow, Russia, November 2, 2016. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
UKRAINE = RUSSIA? NYET
January 13, 2023
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Photo: A vandalised election poster of Rafal Trzaskowski, the current Mayor of Warsaw and Civic Platform's candidate for Presidency of Poland, seen in Krakow. Poland's outgoing president Andrzej Duda failed to win an outright majority in last Sunday's 1st round of presidential election and is set to face Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a July 12th run-off. On July 04, 2020, in Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. Credit: Artur Widak/NurPhoto
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Photo: On January 31, 2020 in Dęblin, Mariusz Błaszczak, the Minister of National Defense signed a contract for the purchase of 32 multi-role F-35 aircraft for the Polish Air Force. Credit: Polish Ministry of National Defence via Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/2inkSaD
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Photo: 200 Ukrainian Hryvnias banknote with the image of Lesya Ukrainka and other Ukrainian hryvnia banknotes. Credit: Karol Serewis / SOPA Images/Sipa USA
Behind the Lines: Ukrainian Currency Seized
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Photo: A man watches workers removing debris of a destroyed building purported to be a vocational college used as temporary accommodation for Russian soldiers, 63 of whom were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike as stated the previous day by Russia's Defence Ministry, in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Makiivka (Makeyevka), Russian-controlled Ukraine, January 3, 2023. Credit: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
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Photo: A Ukrainian servicewoman fires a 2S7 Pion self-propelled gun at a position, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, on a frontline in Kherson region, Ukraine November 9, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi
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Photo: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (President of Türkiye) from the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of Heads of State and Government. Credit: NATO. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/photos_197230.htm
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Photo: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia conducts the Orthodox Christmas service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, January 6, 2023. Credit: REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
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Photo: APM Terminals Poti in Georgia. Credit: APM Terminals via Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/2iXJLRN
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Photo: Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin, November 28, 2022. Credit: akorda.kz
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Photo: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine enters the United States House Chamber to address a joint session of the US Congress in the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Credit: Cliff Owen / CNP/Sipa USA
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NAFO’s Fellas Must Evolve
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Photo: Members of the volunteer organisation Chaplain Patrol drive Valentyna, 70, to the Pokrovsk train station after she was evacuated from Bakhmut, en route to meet her son in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 13, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Ukraine — What Will 2023 Bring?
January 4, 2023
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Photo: LNG Pipeline in Lithuania. Credit: @MinEnergyLT via Twitter. https://twitter.com/MinEnergyLT/status/1527537099678810113/photo/1
The Baltics — a Ship to Weather the Energy Storm
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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a candle as he attends the Orthodox Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia April 23, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
In the Name of God, Go
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People take photos the Christmas tree at the Sofiyska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 19, 2022. Credit: Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto
A Year of Victory
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Photo: U.S. Army Sgt. Tamayo Ezekiel (right) and U.S. Army Pfc. Colby McCormick (left), Army Patriot Launching Station Enhanced Operators, raise the MIM-104 Patriot launching station Jul. 14, 2021, at Camp Growl in Queensland, Australia, during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2021. Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Alyssa Chuluda via dvids
US Victory Within Reach — Don’t Throw Away Ukraine’s Sacrifice Now
December 23, 2022
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Photo: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Joe Biden in the White House. Credit: @POTUS via Twitter https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1605667817558261761/photo/1
Ukraine’s Success Is America’s Success, Zelenskyy Tells Washington
December 23, 2022
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Photo: Participants of a memorial ceremony including members of the Youth Army movement take part in the funeral of 38 pro-Russian soldiers, who were killed amid the conflict with Ukrainian armed forces, at a cemetery in Luhansk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, November 11, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Leader Loss: Russian Junior Officer Casualties
December 23, 2022
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Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with U.S. President Joe Biden after their meeting at the White House in Washington on December 21, 2022. Credit: Photo by Yuri Gripas/ABACAPRESS.COM.
Zelenskyy to the GOP: Stand With Us
December 22, 2022
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Photo: Rally-concert “People's Choice. Together forever". Credit: Kremlin.ru http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69470/photos
Putin’s End-of-Year Message — Embrace the Forever War
December 22, 2022
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Photo: Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping. Credit: Federal Government/Imo https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/media-center/federal-chancellor-scholz-china-2140022
Germany’s Risky Sino Romance
December 22, 2022
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Behind the Lines
December 21, 2022
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Photo: A Moroccan T-72M MBT after it's upgraded by the Czech company Excalibur. Credit @TheDeadDistrict via Twitter. https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1601255975037517825/photo/3
Morocco Breaks Africa’s Neutrality with Arms for Ukraine — Reports
December 21, 2022
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Photo: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks on as he is surrounded by Ukrainian servicemen as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Bucha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Marko Djurica
It’s Complicated
December 21, 2022
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Photo: Kosovo: Multinational Battle Group West Italian soldiers of the Multinational Battel Group West lined up in front and with raised shields during a phase of crowd control training. Credit: Italian Ministry of Defense via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/238Akrg
Italy Seeks to Calm the Balkan Cockpit
December 14, 2022
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Photo: TurkStream natural gas pipeline. Credit: Turkish Directorate of Communications via Twitter https://twitter.com/Communications/status/1214813376817324032/photo/1
Beware of (Russian) Hubs Bearing Gifts
December 14, 2022
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Photo: Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russian broadcaster RT, meets with journalists, with the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour seen in the background, in Moscow, Russia, October 17, 2016. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
A Kurdish-Zionist-ISIS-Nazi-Gay Plot to Capture the Planet? Er, No
December 14, 2022
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Photo: A Latvian (L) flag flutters in the wind next to a Russian flag near a hotel in Daugavpils March 21, 2014. In the former Soviet republics of Latvia and Estonia, there is unease over events in Crimea, which was formally annexed by Moscow last week on the pretext of safeguarding its Russian minorities. In the Latvian town of Daugavpils, where a Russian Tzarist-era fortress and barracks meet grey Soviet-era apartment blocks, you are more likely to be greeted in Russian than Latvian, with 51 percent of the city's residents being Russians. Credit: Picture taken March 21, 2014. To match Insight UKRAINE-CRISIS/RUSSIA REUTERS/Ints Kalnins.
Why Latvia Must Engage its Russian Minority
December 13, 2022
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Photo: The EU Commission and Germany as G7 Presidency invite you to an expert conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine in Berlin. Credit: Federal Government/Hartmann https://www.bundeskanzler.de/bk-de/mediathek/ukraine-konferenz-wiederaufbau-2137608
The Zeitenwende – a Health Check
December 13, 2022
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Photo: Russian university students conduct military training at the Ryazan Guards School of the Airborne Forces in Moscow. Credit: Russia's Defense Ministry/Thursday Feb 17, 2022.
Can Belarus Avoid Putin’s War?
December 12, 2022
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Photo: Moscow, Russia. 2 November 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a gala event to mark the centenary of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia known as the GRU at the Russian Army Theatre Credit: Planetpix/Alamy Live News
Assassins vs. Spies
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Photo: Ukrainian servicemen fire with a Bureviy multiple launch rocket system at a position in Donetsk region, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine November 29, 2022. Credit: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko via REUTERS
The Only Path to Peace
December 11, 2022
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Photo: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov. Credit: @jensstoltenberg via Twitter https://twitter.com/jensstoltenberg/status/1580275079262322691/photo/1
NATO: A Patriotic Response to Save Ukraine
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Photo: Banner of a Russian bank in Kherson city center posted during the occupation by the the Russian army of the city. Credit: Celestino Arce/NurPhoto
Behind the Lines
December 8, 2022
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Photo: Alain Pilloux, EBRD vice-president visiting Chisinau. Credit: Government of Moldova via twitter https://twitter.com/olgarosca/status/1153313259178668033
Moldova Accepts the Price for Energy Independence
December 7, 2022
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Photo: Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) arrives in Minsk, Belarus, on Feb 3, 2022 where he will inspect the progress of the joint military exercises. Russia is massing nuclear-capable missiles along with 30,000 troops in Belarus, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO general secretary warns, amid fears of a huge refugee crisis if Ukraine is invaded. Credit: EYEPRESS MEDIA via Reuters
Is Belarus Preparing to join Russia’s War? Maybe
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Photo: A view shows a logo in the office of the media outlet TV Rain (Dozhd) in Moscow, Russia September 2, 2021. Russia's justice ministry recently declared TV Rain a "foreign agent", the designation used by the government to label foreign-funded organizations it says are engaged in political activity. Credit: REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Self-Harming: the West’s Media Policy for Russia
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Photos: New members of the Territorial Defence Forces train to operate RPG-7 anti-tank launcher during military exercises amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 9, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko.
Putin’s War in Ukraine: It’s Essential Not to Talk
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Photo: Mari Meladze, 18, poses near Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia in the village of Odzisi, Georgia, August 19, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Daro Sulakauri
Georgia Fatigue? Time to Wake Up
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Photo: Russian reservists recruited during the partial mobilisation of troops line up as they receive gear before departing to the zone of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in the Rostov region, Russia October 31, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Sergey Pivovarov
Russia’s Covert Mobilization to Feed the Frontline
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Photo: "Soap", 30, a soldier with the 58th Independent Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Army catches a drone while testing it, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, near Bakhmut, Ukraine, November 25, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Leah Millis
The Miniaturization of Force
December 6, 2022
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Photo: President Michel visits Kazakhstan President Michel attends the Central Asia leaders meeting. Credit: European Union Website. https://newsroom.consilium.europa.eu/permalink/p148146
The EU Returns to Central Asia
December 6, 2022
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Photo: US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron meet at the White House in Washington DC. Credit: @POTUS https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1598504733056155648
Liberty, Equality, Vanity
December 4, 2022
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Photo: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in events on the occasion of the Day of Defenders of Ukraine. Credit: President of Ukraine via Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/2nTHXH3
Russia’s Imperial Farce
December 1, 2022
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Photo: Jens Stoltenberg at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, following the explosion in Poland. Credit: @jensstoltenberg via Twitter. https://twitter.com/jensstoltenberg/status/1592892468978421760/photo/1
Next Time a Missile Hits Poland…
December 1, 2022
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Photo: The person plays on the flute in the center of Lviv during a blackout after a massive Russian missile attack on Ukrainian power infrastructure, Ukraine, November 15, 2022 Credit: Photo by Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto
Ukraine’s War Against the Dark
December 1, 2022
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Photo: Firefighters work to extinguish fire following recent shelling at an oil storage in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the town of Shakhtarsk, October 27, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
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November 29, 2022
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Photo: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wears a football scarf depicting "Greater Hungary". It shows parts of Romania and Ukraine as Hungarian territory. Credit: Orbán Viktor via Facebook. https://fb.watch/h60sKT4n43/
EU Tests Orbán’s Strongman Skills
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Photo: Pallets of ammunition are loaded onto an 86th Airlift Wing C-130J Super Hercules on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Aug. 7, 2022. Air Mobility Command's global air mobility support system is critical to the Department of Defense’s ability to rapidly fulfill Ukraine’s priority security assistance requests. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Emma Quirk via dvids
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Photo: Street with anti-tank obstacle defense during a blackout after a Russian missile attack on Ukrainian power infrastructure in Kyiv, Ukraine, November, 2022. Credit: Photo by Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto
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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before an extended-format meeting of heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit (SCO) member states in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Credit: Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS
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Photo: Ukrainian servicemen ride a 2S7 Pion self-propelled gun, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near a frontline in Kherson region, Ukraine November 9, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi
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Photo: European Council President Charles Michel meets with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, October 26,2022. Credit: European Council.
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Photo: Police officers restrain participants of an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan, Armenia May 3, 2022. Credit: Vahram Baghdasaryan/Photolure via REUTERS.
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Photo: Ukrainian servicemen fire a 130 mm towed field gun M-46 on a front line, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near Soledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, in this handout image released November 10, 2022. Credit: Iryna Rybakova/Press Service of the 93rd Independent Kholodnyi Yar Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout
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Photo: Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov at the sixth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 12, 2022. This is the the sixth such meeting of defense leaders from around the world since Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. Credit: DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley
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November 18, 2022
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Photo: Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping. Credit: Federal Government/Imo https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/media-center/federal-chancellor-scholz-china-2140022
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Photo: President Joe Biden and President of the European Commission Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen at the G20 Summit in Indonesia. Credit: @POTUS via Twitter https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1593038717299888128.
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November 17, 2022
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Photo: Russian T-80BV tank on fire. Credit: OTU "Pivnich", Military unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine via Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=463092205554584
Doomed to Failure — Russia’s Efforts to Restore its Military Muscle
November 15, 2022
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Photo: Graphic picturing The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov. Credit: Sarah Krajewski/CEPA.
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
November 15, 2022
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Photo: Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi addressing the 22nd SCO Summit, September 16, 2022. Credit: President of the Islamic Republic of Iran website https://president.ir/en/139499.
Few-Friends Russia Embraces Iran
November 14, 2022
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Photo: Handout photo shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky taking part in the flag laying ceremony during his visit to the newly liberated city of Kherson, following the retreat of Russian forces from the strategic hub. Kherson, Ukraine, November 14, 2022. Credit: Photo by Ukrainian Presidency via ABACAPRESS.COM
Putin Runs out of Options
November 14, 2022
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Photo: Children celebrate after Russia's retreat from Kherson, in central Kherson, Ukraine November 13, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko.
Three Fronts
November 13, 2022
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Photo: Dark windows in residential blocks during a power cut amid the Russian destruction of Ukrainian power infrastructure in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 27, 2022. Credit: Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto
Putin Weaponizes Winter
November 9, 2022
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Photo: A man wearing a camouflage uniform walks out of PMC Wagner Centre, which is a project implemented by the businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Evgeny Prigozhin, during the official opening of the office block in Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 4, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Igor Russak
Putin’s Chef Turns Handyman
November 9, 2022
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Photo: Joint Terminal Attack Controllers from the Latvian National Armed Forces conduct close air support training with A-10s from the 107th Fighter Squadron. Credit: Staff Sgt. Jacob Cessna, US Air National Guard
A Security Partnership Act for the Baltics?
November 9, 2022
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Photo: A volunteer places a cross with a number to a grave of one of unidentified people killed by Russian troops, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, during a mass burial ceremony in the town of Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine September 2, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Vladyslav Musiienko
Russia Fears Return of a Criminal Army
November 7, 2022
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Photo: An Ukrainian boy attends a demonstration of solidarity with Ukraine in Krakow, Poland on October 1st, 2022. Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto
War of Words
November 6, 2022
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Photo: Estonian Defense Forces launch a javelin anti-tank missile. Credit: MOD Estonia via Twitter. https://twitter.com/MoD_Estonia/status/1499044293104840706/photo/1
Arm the Baltics and Keep Malign Neighbors at Bay
November 2, 2022
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Photo: Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022. Credit: IRGC/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
Iran Battles Turkish Influence in South Caucasus
November 1, 2022
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Photo: Joint appeal with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, for the formation of German-Ukrainian town twinning. Credit: Jesco Denzel via the website of the President of Germany. https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Termine/DE/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/2022/10/221025-Reise-Ukraine.html#-gallery
Germany’s Belated Awakening
October 31, 2022
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Photo: Rome, 23/10/2022 - After receiving military honours, the President of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, reviews the Guard of Honour lined up in the courtyard of Palazzo Chigi. Credit: Italian Government website. https://www.governo.it/en/media/inauguration-ceremony-giorgia-meloni-s-government-palazzo-chigi/20746
Italy’s New Government: Five things to Remember
October 31, 2022
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Photo: Vendors count Russian ruble banknotes for tax at a market in Omsk, Russia October 29, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko
Russia’s Costly War Saps its Regions
October 28, 2022
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Photo: Russian nuclear missiles. Credit: Andy Cat @akatyanin via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/PGEKTReynKk
Foreign Outreach Belies Putin’s Nuclear Threats
October 28, 2022
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Photo: ballistic missiles being launched into the air as Russia's strategic nuclear forces took part in drills. Credit: @MoreeuwL via Twitter. https://twitter.com/ChaudharyParvez/status/1585435573183209473
Russia’s Garbled Nuclear Missile Message
October 28, 2022
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Photo: Polish Border Control. Credit: @Straz_Graniczna via Twitter https://twitter.com/Straz_Graniczna/status/1584062657534885888/photo/1
Baltics Bring Down the Shutters on Free Migration
October 27, 2022
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Western Progressives and Reactionaries for Putin
October 27, 2022
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Photo: Odessa, Ukraine, 2022/04/14. Barricades and fortifications forbid the access to a street in the city center. Residents in Odessa fear to be the target of a Russian attack since the Russian navy ship Moskva was sunk by Ukrainian missiles off Odessa s coast. Credit: Photograph by Valeria Mongelli / Hans Lucas. Odessa, Ukraine, 2022/04/14.
Sirens and Flaming Shots — Life in Wartime Odesa
October 26, 2022
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Photo: Briefing on radiation security threats by the chief of nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov. Credit: MoD Russia via Telegram. https://t.me/mod_russia_en/4684
Dirty Bomb — What’s Russia’s Game?
October 26, 2022
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