Rise of the dimwit vodka dumpers
The virtue signalers are out in full force over Russia
Ukraine
Sunday
Friday
Ukraine and the art of viral war
Thanks to social media, the conflict feels totally one-sided to observers in the West
Lindsey Graham unites the world
Against him, after calling for Putin’s assassination on national television
Ukraine won’t join the European Union any time soon
Joining the bloc is a long and tedious process unlikely to be fast-tracked
Thursday
Fasting this Lent for the people of Ukraine
Let’s not forget many Ukrainians are fasting too, even as war rages around them
Putin’s Stalinist playbook
The Russian leader has eschewed Lenin in favor of a more familiar figure
Russia’s war is not a Trump redux
Trump has nothing to do with Putin, or Ukraine, which have nothing to do with American democracy
Pro-Ukraine citizens clash with authorities in Georgia
Public resentment could reach a boiling point in the Caucasus
Wednesday
The Russian Orthodox Church eyes Ukraine
Putin’s government is waging not just a military campaign but a spiritual one
The Ukraine invasion is nothing compared to Iraq
Or Iran or Afghanistan or…
Putin understands America’s moral decay
He and Xi Jinping think we’re weak and dissolving from within. Could they be right?
Is Europe a continent? Does it matter?
The ‘continent’ is a lot more than what Nikole Hannah-Jones considers a racist ‘dog whistle’
Tuesday
Putin is making the EU great again
Achieving the impossible: perhaps there’s a silver lining to this awful mess
Even Hungary has soured on Vladimir Putin
Amid the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s Eastern European ‘allies’ are recoiling
Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry in a time of war
Those attacking the Ukrainian-American poet for making light of crisis are misreading him
What does Ukraine really mean for Taiwan?
There has been no serious debate over whether Taiwan, a rapidly aging society, can defend itself
Monday
The GOP isn’t quitting on Trump
Nearly two thirds of CPAC attendees want him to be the 2024 nominee
Putin’s endgame is preserving ‘his’ Russia
And his invasion of Ukraine shows how far he’s willing to go to achieve it
The Ukraine invasion is the first social media war
And Volodymyr Zelensky is its star
And now the dumbest takes about Ukraine
From Bill Kristol to Nikole Hannah-Jones, Twitter’s many geopolitical strategists have been busy
