Fragile, vibrant, modern Ukraine faces being overrun by 190,000 Russian troops, driven by an autocrat frustrated at the loss of Russia’s one-time sphere of influence
By Eddie Hobbs What is Putin’s big Disruption Strategy? To find out I’ve been engaging with geopolitical experts. I don’t dwell here upon the effectiveness of the mounting responses to Putin’s aggression. He faces a coalition of overlapping opponents: the EU, UK, NATO, USA – many countries and multinational corporations. The military strategy of […]
78March/April 2022And whether or not Ireland likes it, on convergence. Two years ago this is what he told the Economistabout Europe: “So, frstly, Europe is gradually losing track of its history… Europe has forgotten that it is a community, by increasingly thinking of itself as a market, with expansion as its end purpose. This is […]
76March/April 2022Fragile, vibrant, modern Ukraine faces being overrun by 190,000 Russian troops, driven by an autocrat frustrated at the loss of Russia’s one-time sphere of infuenceBy Michael SmithINTERNATIONALUkraineUkraine may have been a backwater, romanticised originally as the land of the Cossacks, until recently though it is the second biggest country in Europe (after Russia of […]
Ukraine: Ireland to Russia’s UK Fragile, vibrant, modern Ukraine is being overrun by 190,000 Russian troops, driven by an autocrat frustrated at the loss of its one-time sphere. By Michael Smith. Ukraine Ukraine may have been a backwater until recently but it is the second biggest country in Europe (after Russia of […]