01 Apr2022

Power, not ideology, drives Putin’s war in Ukraine

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Today in The Australian

That the 20th century was an age of tyrants who were all the more murderous for being ideologically driven hardly needs to be said.

 

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25 Mar2022

War in Ukraine: Putin won’t stop until he is made to stop

Posted in Op eds

Today in The Australian

Wars, history shows, rarely end before the net costs to each of the warring parties of continuing the hostilities manifestly exceed those they can expect to bear by settling. Unfortunately, that condition still seems far from being met in Ukraine.

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18 Mar2022

Why Putin is in strife with his unjust war

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Today in The Australian

As the Russian army grinds ahead in its efforts to make a desert and call it peace, the invasion of Ukraine has proven to be anything but the smoothly executed “special operation” Vladimir Putin announced three weeks ago.

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11 Mar2022

Putin seizes on wavering will of the West

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Today in The Australian

 

In September 1968, just weeks after Soviet tanks had crushed the Prague Spring, Dean Rusk, the secretary of state in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, reported to cabinet that the invasion had given NATO “a new lease of life”.


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04 Mar2022

NATO was no trigger for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

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Today in The Australian

It was all too predictable: Russia’s tanks had scarcely begun to roll into Ukraine before claims appeared in the Twittersphere that the invasion was the West’s own fault.

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25 Feb2022

Putin falsifies history to justify Ukraine invasion

Posted in Op eds

Today in The Australian


“It is a fact,” Vladimir Putin claimed in his address to the Russian people seeking to justify Russia’s attack on Ukraine, “that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, communist Russia.” 

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