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Berkeley Kid

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UC Berkeley educated, business owner, living in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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www.iiss.org/online-analy...

iiss.orgUkraine: The War Europe Is Not FightingEurope’s reluctance to recognise that it is already Russia’s target amounts to a strategic vulnerability that Moscow is positioned to exploit.

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26 June 2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o... read for free: archive.is/ufMCg

nytimes.comOpinion | Putin Has Lost Something Worse Than a War

Berkeley Kid

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21 June 2025

www.wsj.com/world/nuclea... Good article. read for free: archive.is/eHDkp

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9 June 2025

foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/09/u...

foreignpolicy.comUkraine’s Narrow Path to Victory Without TrumpHow Kyiv and Europe can defeat Russia on their own.

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9 June 2025

thehill.com/opinion/5303...

thehill.comPutin’s growing anxiety mirrors Russia’s failures on the battlefieldUkraine is transforming into a technology-driven army, with drones accounting for up to 80 percent of Russian casualties, while Putin’s desperation grows as his economy falters and his regime…

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9 June 2025

foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/03/r...

foreignpolicy.comPutin Is a Gambler, not a Grand MasterThe Russian president has abandoned real strategy for a single goal.

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30 May 2025

thehill.com/opinion/inte...

thehill.comTime is not on Russia’s side in UkraineThere’s more to the story than numbers of men, money and materiel. Leadership, morale, tactics, strategy, quality of weapons and other unquantifiable factors play an important, and perhaps even dec…

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30 May 2025

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...

atlanticcouncil.orgWelcome to the long war: Why a Ukraine deal was never realisticThere is no deal to be had with Russia on Ukraine. There never has been, and there never will be.

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30 May 2025

www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/delu...

foreignaffairs.comThe Delusions of Peacemaking in UkraineKyiv won’t compromise on its sovereignty because it isn’t facing defeat.

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23 May 2025

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

atlanticcouncil.orgPutin aims to destroy Ukraine and has zero interest in a compromise peaceRussia’s ongoing campaign to destroy Ukraine as a state and as a nation is taking place in front of the watching world and makes a complete mockery of US-led efforts to broker some kind of compromise ...

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20 May 2025

foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/19/r...

foreignpolicy.comRussia Has Started Losing the War in UkraineThe military tide may have turned against Putin.

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11 May 2025

Good article. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/10/e...

edition.cnn.comUkraine ceasefire call is aimed at forcing Putin to reveal his war goals to Trump | CNNIt was a proposal that the Kremlin could neither outright reject nor accept, intended to force it into an awkward choice, revealing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s true appetite for his brutal war ...

Berkeley Kid

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26 Mar 2025

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

atlanticcouncil.orgUkraine’s growing military strength is an underrated factor in peace talksAny discussion on the future course of the war against Russia and the terms of any peace deal must take into account the fact that Ukraine is a now major military power in its own right, writes Serhii...

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23 Mar 2025

carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...

carnegieendowment.orgTrump’s Push for Peace in Ukraine Is Doomed to FailThe conflict between Ukraine and Russia is far more intractable than Trump seems to realize, and history suggests the U.S. leader will quickly lose interest.

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6 Mar 2025

time.com/7265176/trum...

time.comNever, Never Underestimate UkraineMy country is not a Banana Republic that will simply bend to President Trump's wishes, writes Illia Ponomarenko.

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6 Mar 2025

www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

foreignaffairs.comUkraine Without AmericaHow Kyiv can persist in the face of a hostile Washington.

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1 Mar 2025

Good article. www.politico.eu/article/emma...

politico.euMacron’s told-you-so momentTrump vindicated the French president on self-reliant defense. But with Putin looming, the hard work starts now for Europe.

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27 Feb 2025

Bankrupt Russia please. www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

politico.euWhy Putin is finally negotiatingMoscow could soon struggle to finance the war, and fiscal breathing room may well be what the Russian leader’s looking for.

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26 Feb 2025

time.com/7261449/puti...

time.comWhat CEOs Know about Putin that Stumps Donald TrumpPutin is desperate for U.S. businesses to return to stave off his economic collapse, write Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

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17 Feb 2025

Yikes. www.justsecurity.org/105451/trump...

justsecurity.orgTrump’s Endgame for the War in UkraineAn overview of how bargains between Trump and Putin may play out and leave impoverished the vital interests of Ukraine.

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12 Feb 2025

www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/puti... If a cease-fire is reached that does not address this continuing Russian threat, lasting peace and stability will remain elusive.

foreignaffairs.comPutin’s UkraineThe end of war and the price of Russian occupation.

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10 Feb 2025

“Putin’s assault on southeastern Ukraine will reap only the spoilage of conquest, not its spoils, providing a cautionary lesson to other would-be expansionists.” www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/russ...

foreignaffairs.comRussia’s Costly Conquest in UkraineWhen expansion yields few gains.

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31 Jan 2025

www.thebulwark.com/p/bad-things...

thebulwark.com‘Bad Things Happened’: Trump Still Doesn’t Understand the Ukraine WarAnd in his eagerness to cut a deal to end it, he may give Putin the lifeline he so desperately needs.

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31 Jan 2025

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

washingtonpost.comWith Trump’s return, Ukraine renews push to seize Russia’s frozen billionsWith U.S. military aid to Ukraine in doubt, Zelensky hopes to convince Trump to get the Europeans on side for confiscating Russia’s frozen assets.

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31 Jan 2025

www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

understandingwar.orgInstitute for the Study of WarThe Kremlin is in the endgame of a decades’ long strategic effort to de facto annex Belarus — an effort which will permanently augment Russia’s military and economic capabilities to pursue its revanch...

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30 Jan 2025

thehill.com/opinion/nati...

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29 Jan 2025

kyivindependent.com/trump-must-c...

kyivindependent.comTrump must call Putin’s bluff on Ukraine talksRussian President Vladimir Putin is starting 2025 with a bang. In a nod to U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire for a settlement in Ukraine, the Kremlin has announced its readiness for negotiations “w...

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Igor Sushko

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28 Jan 2025

💥 A single Ukrainian Leopard 2 tank wiped out a Russian armored column.

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27 Jan 2025

www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/...

pravda.com.uaDictatorships can fight, but they always lose in the endToday marks exactly 80 years since the liberation of one of the largest Nazi death camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim. The camp was created by the authoritarian regime of a brutal dictator who want...

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27 Jan 2025

thehill.com/opinion/inte...

thehill.comA truce with Russia could lead to ultimate Ukrainian victoryThe collapse of the Russian regime is more real than many experts think.

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24 Jan 2025

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

telegraph.co.ukTrump just gave Putin a wake-up callFar from cosying up to the Kremlin, the president’s latest threats have sparked deep concern in Moscow

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Igor Sushko

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23 Jan 2025

As President Trump continues to pile on daily threats to destroy Russian economy, Hungary's Orban suddenly finds himself pissing against the wind and immediately stops, backing down from his threat to block EU sanctions against Russia. www.politico.eu/article/hung...

politico.euHungary wobbles on sanctions threat after Trump calls out PutinViktor Orbán has flirted with killing the EU’s Russia sanctions. But he didn’t get the ally he might have expected in Donald Trump.

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23 Jan 2025

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

washingtonpost.comOpinion | America must continue to arm Ukraine — without U.S. taxpayer dollarsIt’s time to transition Kyiv from aid recipient to defense consumer.

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