It’s not fair to blame the war in Ukraine on Ukraine’s failure to honour the Minsk II agreement. Russia had no intention of honouring it either.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a class action suit against the Massachusetts’ Dept of Public Health for installing spyware on millions of Android phones without their users' consent. Its excuse? Covid.
How likely is it that Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine? Not very likely, says Ian Rons, who can envisage only negative consequences for Putin if he goes nuclear.
Those who thought the war in Ukraine was unwinnable and the best option was to offer Putin the Donetsk and Luhansk in return for peace have been proved wrong. It now looks as though Ukraine can expel the invader.
If fears of NATO expansion don’t sound like a solid principle for Russia to stand on, then don’t worry, Russia has other ones – a myriad of factitious grievances tailored to the prejudices of any given audience.
The arrest of Harry Miller for trying to prevent the arrest of an ex-soldier for posting an image highlighting the authoritarian subtext of the Pride flag shows how political the police have become.
Is the Ukrainian Government's recently published 'blacklist' of its critics really an attack on the free press? Ian Rons doesn't think so. After all, the First Amendment wouldn't prevent the U.S. Government doing the same.
Is the ‘Global Good Crisis’ real or just another symptom of Ukrainian Derangement Syndrome? Ian Rons examines the facts and concludes that when it comes to wheat exports, we probably don’t need to worry.
Dr. Ivan Katchanovski claims the protestors killed in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution were shot by neo-Nazi snipers. But a forensic analysis of the ballistics suggests otherwise.
Retired Swiss intelligence officer Jacques Baud is often cited as a reliable source about what's really going on in Ukraine. (Putin was provoked, the Ukrainian military is full of Nazis, etc.) But how reliable is he?
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