CHECHEN PLAYBOOKPutin May Use Chechen War Playbook in Ukraine By Ksenia Sokolyanskaya Published 9 March 2022 The Russian military campaign in Ukraine has been slower than expected, and Vladimir Putin may turn to the indiscriminate tactics of the wars in Chechnya that turned Chechen cities to rubble in the 1990s and early 2000s, human rights

AERIAL SUPPORTCalls Mount for West to Impose No-Fly Zone, Give Jets to Ukraine By Jamie Dettmer Published 9 March 2022 Poland surprised the United States by offering to donate its Soviet-era MiG-29 warplanes to Ukraine in exchange for advanced U.S. fighter jets to be transferred to Poland. The Polish government didn’t get the green light

NUCLEAR RISKSCan Ukraine Be Saved Without Triggering a Nuclear Response? By Brendan Nicholson Published 9 March 2022 Worries about the war in Ukraine are deepened by the prospect that if, against the odds, Russian forces are brought to the point of defeat, Putin will launch a ‘battlefield’ or ‘tactical’ nuclear weapon to destroy the forces

ENDING THE WARUkraine: What Will End the War? Here’s What Research Says By Douglas B. Atkinson Published 9 March 2022 The fog of war can obscure our view of who is winning, who is losing, and how long all of this will last. While no one can provide definitive answers, academic research on war gives

NUCLEAR RISKSWhat Are the Risks at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant? By Ajit Niranjan Published 9 March 2022 Threat of a nuclear catastrophe is low. But experts fear for safety of workers who have been unable to rotate off shift. Communications with the site are down and electricity has reportedly been lost. In late February Russian troops invading Ukraine occupied the

PROPAGANDARussia Shows the Limits of Propaganda By Will Duffield Published 9 March 2022 Beyond the outer fringes of Western politics, neither Russia’s contrived casus belli nor its wartime information operation have been taken seriously in Europe or America. Despite widespread concerns about the influence of English‐language Russian state media such as Russia Today and Sputnik, Russian

OUR PICKSHow Does This End? | What If Russia Loses? | Red Sky in the Morning, and more Published 9 March 2022 ·  The Ukraine Dilemma ·  How Does This End? ·  It’s Time to Ask: What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like? ·  Preventing a Wider European Conflict ·  How the War in Ukraine Could Get Much Worse

OUR PICKS: UKRAINE WAR – NUCLEAR RISKSPutin & Nukes | Attacks on Nuclear Plants | Immediate Nuclear Danger, and more Published 9 March 2022 ·  ‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes ·  How International Law Applies to Attacks on Nuclear and Associated Facilities in Ukraine ·  On Russia’s Shelling of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

NUCLEAR THREATSRussian Attack on, Takeover of Ukraine Plant Ramps Up Nuclear Threat By Christina Pazzanese Published 7 March 2022 Russia’s attack last Friday on a nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has heightened concerns of a nuclear catastrophe in the region, and not only as a result of unintended leaks or possible future attacks on

CHINA WATCHChina Expands Influence in Central America By Jie Xi Published 7 March 2022 With a library here, a power station there, China is using aid and investment to increase its presence in Central America, posing a challenge to the United States’ 2-century-old diplomatic dominance in the region. With a library here, a power station there,