Author Archives: Michael Wehle

I saw the terrible wrath of the place, saw it obliterate hundreds of thousands of people with names and ethnicity and religion like mine, knew for certain that there were deep ugly cracks in the bedrock of this thing called … Continue reading →

Leonid Ragozin, Jacobin: The question that looms largest is whether, by helping Ukraine, the West is promoting its declared values, like democracy and human rights — or simply pursuing an imperialist geopolitical project in which members of the Russian opposition, but … Continue reading →

Geoffrey Roberts: What is the alternative for European states to keeping the war going for as long as possible and sustaining the Zelensky administration? The alternative is a negotiated settlement that will be damaging for Ukraine and politically and economically … Continue reading →

Volodymyr Ishchenko, X: Understanding the war not as arising out of systemic contradictions that determined objective interests cutting across the whole post-Soviet space and globally, but out of the idiosyncrasies of a very narrow clique or just Putin alone, facilitated … Continue reading →

Die Zeit:

Sometimes I read the news and I feel like a kid again.