Ukraine’s only option is security self-sufficiency
Russian president Vladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine voluntarily. The West’s sanctions are not immediately crippling Russia
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Analyses & Alternatives
Ukraine War: The Battle of Bulgaria
The Russian Ambassador is now bound to leave Bulgaria. It should be sooner rather than later. For the gloves are
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Chiren UGS – Love me tender?
The recent tender for the expansion of the Chiren UGS envisages investment of hundreds of millions of leva – and
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“Explanting” Russia
Ronald Reagan and the art of containment The closer we get to the hotter spots of the battle for Ukraine,
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Putin to weaponize emigration?
Russia is a problem when aggressive and Putinised. But it’s no less of a challenge when it is isolated, sanctioned
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Russia loses in every scenario in Ukraine
Through his bad judgment, Putin has already closed pretty much any visible “exit ramps”. The situation calls for a diligently thought out diplomatic strategy, to avert a lasting and irreversible regional or worldwide catastrophe.
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How long before the West intervenes in Ukraine?
Photo credit: © Reuters “The enemy had the audacity to fire on us while we were peacefully bombing his cities”
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A regime change in Moscow?
Will the madman in the Kremlin press the nuclear button? Vladimir Putin is losing the war. Or, at least, there
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Déjà vu – Churchills or Chamberlains?
Do the West’s leaders not realise that Yalta-2 is even now being written? If they do, they ought to be
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The shape of things to come – contain or appease ?
A view from Sofia on the legacy of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis Painting: Caesar Crosses the Rubicon, 1875, Adolphe Yvon Like
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