The War Won’t End Until Putin Loses
Offering the Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future aggression. Read More Here
Category: Russia
Putin’s next power play is a parade
On May 9, Russia will mark the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II as it does every year. Ukrainian and Western officials expect Russian President Vladimir Putin to seize the opportunity of a day steeped in patriotic fervour to escalate the war in Ukraine. Read More Here
Why Russia’s Economy Is Holding On
Despite predictions of doom for the heavily sanctioned Russian economy, nearly two months into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, his country’s oil exports to Europe and other have actually risen, and its financial sector is so far avoiding a serious liquidity crisis. Read More Here
The Month That Changed A Century
In little more than a month, Russian President Vladimir Putin has resurrected the threat of territorial conquest and nuclear war, jolted Western Europe awake from its long postwar torpor, and put the capstone on two decades of U.S. misdirection by defying American power and influence. Read More Here
Putin’s Afghanistan
For those who remember late Soviet history, there is a familiar analog to these events: the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. As with the war in Ukraine, the invasion of Afghanistan was driven by the fear that Moscow was losing a crucial piece of its sphere of influence. Read More Here
The Toll Of Economic War
The Russian-Ukrainian war of 2022 is not just a major geopolitical event but also a geoeconomic turning point. Western sanctions are the toughest measures ever imposed against a state of Russia’s size and power. Read More Here
Developing economies must act now to dampen the shocks from the Ukraine conflict
The war in Ukraine could not have come at a worse time for the global economy—when the recovery from the pandemic-induced contraction had begun to falter, inflation was surging, central banks in the world’s largest economies were gearing up to hike interest rates, and financial markets were gyrating over a formidable constellation of uncertainties. Read More Here
War in Ukraine will cripple global food markets
Today Russia and Ukraine, respectively the largest and fifth-largest wheat exporters, together account for 29% of international annual sales. Uncertainties around the sowing season in the two countries coupled with low global stocks will further increase already-high prices. Read More Here
The Unfreezable Asset: Gold, Sanctions, And Russia
Can President Vladimir Putin’s gold hoard help the Russian economy to weather biting financial sanctions? Though there are limits to the yellow metal’s usefulness, it can function as an economic lifeline for an isolated economy. Read More Here
Putin The Gambler
Although many observers continued to assume that he measures the risks and rewards of particular actions as they do, Putin has grown more and more willing to take risks as he has come to believe that doing so pays off. Read More Here
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