Ukraine War

Diplomacy Is the Only Way Out of the Russia-Ukraine War

By Katrina vanden Heuvel and James W. Carden*

This article is distributed by Globetrotter in partnership with ACURA.

NEW YORK, 24 Feb 2023 (IDN) — As 2023 unfolds, we fear that American policy will continue to be characterized by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia.

Throughout the course of the war, the Biden administration has slowly, steadily, even stealthily increased America’s involvement. Calls from Kiev for more and more weapons have, at every turn, been met with President Biden’s acquiescence.

: UN Bureau; THE WORLD; Ukraine War; 24 February 2023

Image: Ukrainian soldiers install the state flag on Snake Island, in the Black Sea. The Ukrainian military returned the flag of Ukraine to island, which had been under the control of Russian troops for some time. (Ukrainian Defence Ministry Press Office via AP)

Time for Russia to End Continuing War Against Ukraine

The restoration of peace and international law is necessary

By Alyn Ware and Julius Brede

HAMBURG, 23 Feb 2023 (IDN) — The World Future Council is shocked and deeply saddened by Russia’s continuing invasion of Ukraine, which commenced one year ago, and by Russia’s grievous violations of international law in the war and their illegal annexation of Ukrainian territory.

: Opinion Editor; OPINION; 23 February 2023

Image: Nuclear missile SS-18 Satan fully designed and manufactured in Ukraine at Yuzhmash (cropped). C BY 2.5

War in Ukraine and ICBMs: The Untold Story of How They Could Blow Up the World

By Norman Solomon*

SAN FRANCISCO, 22 Feb 2023 (IDN) — Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, media coverage of the war hasn’t included even the slightest mention of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Yet the war has boosted the chances that ICBMs will set off a global holocaust.

: UN Bureau; OPINION; 22 February 2023

Image: Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow, Russia, 21 February 2023. /CFP

Putin's Decision to "Suspend" New START Dangerous

By J C Suresh

TORONTO | WASHINGTON, 21 Feb 2023 (IDN) — The Arms Control Association, an independent, membership-based organization, has strongly criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to suspend implementation of the last remaining treaty limiting the world's two largest nuclear arsenals, the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

: J C Suresh; THE WORLD; Ukraine War; 21 February 2023

Image: Supporters of Ukraine protest outside the United Nations shortly after Russia’s invasion last year. Credit: Arul Louis

As Russian Invasion Enters its Second Year, the UN Remains Paralysed

By Arul Louis

The writer is a New York-based non-resident senior fellow of the Society for Policy Studies, a New Delhi-based think tank. He can be contacted @arulouis.

UNITED NATIONS, 20 Feb 2023 (IDN) — Paralysed by its own Charter and structure, the world organisation that is charged with preventing wars confronts an existential challenge from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

: UN Bureau; UN INSIDER; 20 February 2023

Image source: Deutsche Welle, a German public, state-owned international broadcaster

Ukraine Needs to Learn About US-Russia Proxy Wars

By Jeffrey D. Sachs

This article was published in JDS and is being republished with the author's permission.

NEW YORK, 19 Feb 2023 (IDN) — The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world slips further into global conflict, our economic hopes and our very survival could go up in flames. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to a mere 90 seconds to midnight.

: Opinion Editor; OPINION; 19 February 2023

Image: Ukraine has said Russia would need to completely remove its forces for talks to take place. Credit: Reuters File Photo

The Crude Instinct of Solving Problems by Warfare

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*

LUND, Sweden (IDN) — “We showed weakness and weak people are beaten,” said President Vladimir Putin in September 2004, surveying the wreckage of the battle-scarred school in Beslan in Russia after Chechnyan terrorists had tried to hold children hostage and the army was sent in. Hundreds of children died, probably unnecessarily.

: Jonathan Power; OPINION; 14 February 2023

Image: Shared by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, this picture shows a TV tower, near the Memorial complex blown by Russian forces. Credit: MFA_Ukraine/Twitter. Source: Republicworld.com

Ukraine: A Full-Scale Attack on Labour Rights

By Georgii Sandul

The writer is a lawyer and the director of the NGO Labour Initiatives. International Politics and Society, the Global and European Policy Unit of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin, published this article.

KYIV (IDN) — We, Ukrainians, are all living in a state of war. Along with Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukrainians are facing another threat: since March, we have also experienced a full-scale attack on the labour rights of all working people in Ukraine.

: Opinion Editor; THE WORLD; Ukraine War; 10 February 2023

Image: A scene from Russia-Ukraine War. Credit: Anadolu Agency (AA)

Is Europe Sliding into Third World War?

By Boaventura de Sousa Santos*

COIMBRA, Portugal (IDN) — A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of deaths in warfare for the last hundred years (not to go back any further and include the deaths suffered by Europe during religious wars and the deaths inflicted by Europeans on peoples subjected to colonialism) is heading for a new war.

: Opinion Editor; THE WORLD; Ukraine War; 05 February 2023

Crossing Russia's Red Lines on NATO Expansion

U.S. Officials Were Aware of the Risks

Viewpoint by Branko Marcetic

This article is distributed by Globetrotter in partnership with the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord. Branko Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.

CHICAGO (IDN) — Nearly a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink of, in President Joe Biden’s own words, “Armageddon.” Alongside the literal battlefield, there has been a similarly bitter intellectual battle over the war’s causes.