By Stephen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 28 February 2025 (IDN) — Because events at the White House with President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky were so dramatic, I thought it would, perhaps, be useful to take a moment to discuss […]
Ukraine War: UN Health Agency Sounds Alarm
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | 25 February 2025 (IDN) — While European leaders travelled to Kyiv on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, assuring President Zelensky of the continued flow of money and weapons, and President Emmanuel Macron of France pleaded with President Trump in Washington not to ignore Europe while brokering a […]
Ukraine War Calls for A Scale-Up in Support to Women and Girls
By Caroline Mwanga NEW YORK | 19 February 2025 (IDN) — Ahead of 24 February marking the third anniversary of Russia’s all-out assault on Ukraine, the United Nations has warned that the war is having a devastating effect on women and girls, with 1,869,000 internally displaced, almost 6.7 million women in need of humanitarian assistance, […]
US-Russia Meeting in Riyadh Successful, More to Follow
Meeting Atmosphere Professional, Not Ideological By Stephen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 18 February 2025 (IDN) — Both the Russian and the US side say that the high level diplomatic meeting held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the morning of February […]
Ukraine War: Despite European Concern, Trump’s Peace Initiative is a Gamechanger
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 15 February 2025 (IDN) — As we approach the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a monumental shift is taking place that might just lead to the end of this calamitous war. This is not a breakthrough on the battlefield, but a […]
Europe Gasping for Air as Trump Makes His Ukraine Move
No NATO Membership for Ukraine, No US Troops By Stephen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 12 February 2025 (IDN) — European leaders who have been strongly supporting keeping the Ukraine war going have been dealt a serious blow by President Trump […]
Message To the US and Russia: Don’t Think About Nuclear War
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 11 February 2025 (IDN) — War over Ukraine? It mustn’t be. Some of us believed that at the end of the Cold War in 1991 American and Soviet nuclear rockets would be left to rust and rot in their silos. Indeed, we actually saw Ukraine, where the Soviets made […]
Europe Ignores the Risk of Economic Nightmare as Ukraine Attacks TurkStream Pipeline
By Stephen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 13 January 2025 (IDN) — The Ukrainians sent nine drones to attack a natural gas compressor station in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia. The compressor station was part of the TurkStream pipeline. All […]
Ukraine War: Neutrality Remains the Key to Peace
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies NEW YORK | 13 January 2025 (IDN) — President-elect Trump said on January 9 that he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. He said “Putin wants to meet,” because “we have to get that war over with.” So what […]
Is the World Ending War — Despite Ukraine?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 7 January 2025 (IDN) — An ugly cloud of pessimism hands over many parts of the world. War that seemed to be in retreat, has returned with a vengeance with the second largest military in world, Russia’s, battling a very under-resourced neighbour, Ukraine. It’s getting a lot of people […]