The UK isn’t prepared for Russia’s new energy war
Almost none of the Tory leadership candidates want to talk about the strategic conflict Europe is embroiled in.
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Germany’s impending energy crisis is no reason for it to abandon Ukraine
It is both wrong and dangerous to write off the German economic model
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Why the Russian military should be very worried
As Ukraine targets ammunition depots, Putin’s forces may be approaching a crisis point.
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Driving through Ukraine, I am confronted by the end of the world
Jews who were once bombed by the Nazis now face assault by the Russians. They are numb with grief.
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Can Ukraine win the war with Russia?
As Russia takes the city of Lysychansk, Ukraine needs to develop momentum with its better, Western-sourced weapons.
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The ethical dilemma of rebuilding Ukraine after the war
A Marshall Plan will have to defeat the country’s corruption first.
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The banality of Vladimir Putin
A new biography of the Russian president details the extraordinary rise of an unremarkable man who learned how to exercise…
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Brexit and the war in Ukraine have stymied UK climate action
The UK government will use climate finance to support the war in Ukraine.
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Who’s arming Ukraine?
The US and the UK have supplied the most military aid since the start of Russia’s invasion.
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Is this the end of the Ukrainian moment?
European unity, strong in the first weeks of Russia’s war in Ukraine, will need reinforcement if it’s to be sustained.
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Russia’s threat to the global financial order is also our chance to build a new one
Is the international economic system unravelling, or is this a moment of transformation?
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Interest rates are fuelling a debt crisis in the developing world
With more than half of low-income countries at or near debt distress, Western governments should immediately loosen the terms of…
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Russia must lose this war
To ask the Ukrainians to stop fighting and negotiate is to invite a reinvasion as soon as Putin has rebuilt…
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Russia’s army is fighting Ukraine the way it was designed to
The Kremenchuk strike shows Moscow will indiscriminately bomb Ukrainian cities.
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How Putin prepared elite troops for Ukraine
A deadly crackdown on an uprising in Kazakhstan in January held lessons for the invasion of Ukraine the following month.
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Nato unity faces scrutiny as defences to protect the Baltic states ramp up
The war in Ukraine will dominate this week’s summit in Madrid, including the admission of Finland and Sweden as members.
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Paralysis in Moscow: why Putin persists with his strategy
The Russian president realises he must pick his fights carefully. Just as well, because the challenges keep coming.
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First revolution, then war: Ukraine’s long fight for a European future
As Ukraine seeks to join the EU, an activist’s death symbolises his country’s struggle to leave Russia’s orbit.
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Europe’s gas dash risks leaving African countries high and dry
Africa should be wary of Europe’s sudden rush to diversify its oil and gas suppliers.
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A new age of global war
Europe believed it had banished war for good. But Russia’s aggression in Ukraine shows we must prepare for armed conflict…
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