Category: Ukraine War

After the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, the alliance took on a wider role. NATO forces — made up of troops volunteered by member states — operated as…

However compelling it may be to use any available weapon to protect one’s homeland, nations in the rules-based international order have increasingly sought to draw a red line against use…

The US president is facing criticism over his decision to send the controversial weapons to Ukraine.

Five former prisoners of war have left Turkey to return to Ukraine, escorted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.       

Chris Hipkins said the weapons were “indiscriminate, they cause huge damage to innocent people, potentially, and they can have a long-lasting effect as well”. The White House had been made…

The weapons have a record of killing civilians – and the president said sending them was a difficult decision.

The United States has decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help its military push back Russian forces entrenched along the front lines. (July 7)       

President Joe Biden’s administration has decided to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine for the war against Russia, even though the United Nations urges the warring countries to avoid using them.…

Yves here. Depressing, but not entirely surprising. Military Keynesianism is making arming Ukraine less costly than it seems due to its impact on GDP growth. But this beneficial-only-in-the-eyes-of-economists spending does…

Elizabeth Gilbert makes a “course correction” by pulling her latest book due to the war in Ukraine.