BLOG Post #455: Giving Putin All He Wants 24 Mar 2025 Putin’s Real Agenda One thing seems clear to me about these talks: Vladimir Putin is in an enviable position to get what he wants—maybe not all of what he wants,…
BLOG Post #379: The Coup that Wasn’t 30 Jun 202329 Jun 2023 A Narrow and Costly Escape Tensions between the Russian defense ministry and the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, had been running high for months, mainly because of…
BLOG Post #351: Predictions of a Ukraine Victory are Premature 29 Sep 202229 Sep 2022 For the podcast of this blog, see the archive at https://wordpress.com/post/melgurtov.com/2247 Putin Under Fire Something extraordinary is happening in the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Putin is taking a…
BLOG Post #336: Loose Lips Can Sink Peace 9 May 20228 May 2022 During World War II, US sailors were warned: Loose lips sink ships. A similar warning should have gone out to all US officials in recent days—and the President should…
BLOG Post #328: Putin’s Nightmare 4 Mar 20224 Mar 2022 Audio version available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/53431/37-putins-nightmare.mp3. Three Silver Linings In the midst of a crisis with great loss of life and property, it might be unseemly to suggest that there are…
BLOG Post #320: Putin’s Democracy Problem: Civil Society and Ukraine 11 Dec 2021 Vladimir Putin is trying to accomplish two very dangerous tasks at once: the destruction of civil society in Russia, and the withering away of international support for a democratic Ukraine.…
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