Ukraine War

[Prefatory Note: The following post was published in modified form in CounterPunch on September 30 2022. Its essential claim is that the ‘Vietnam Syndrome’ exerted a desirable downward pressure on hawkish war making tendencies for a period of almost 20 years after the Vietnam War came to end. For those in the political elite in and […]

[Prefatory Note: The following interview was previously published in September by the online Global Governance Forum. My responses to the questions posed by Aslı Bâli have been somewhat updated to take account of intervening developments. Aslı was my last PhD student at Princeton, has emerged as a star of the UCLA School of Law in recent […]

President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the heads of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kyiv, Lviv, and Ternopil oblasts.The president dismissed Artem Bondarenko from the post of head of the SBU Department in the Lviv oblast. Serhiy Zayats is no longer the head of the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kyiv and […]

The last part of this piece’s byline is the most important. The West is destroying its own economy by way of Russia, and it is doing so in full knowledge of the outcome. “You will own nothing, and you will be happy.” – Claus Schwab Remember this? Well, Russia is not interested in the Great Reset. […]

[Prefatory Note The following letter appeared in the prominent German weekly, ZEIT, last week. It is written from a European perspective, calling for a ceasefire followed by bilateral negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. The organizers and the signers are almost totally drawn from the higher echelons of German intellectual and academic life. The letter does not […]

Journalist Chris Mehan says that Zelensky and his underlings have been lying nonstop about every aspect of the war from the very beginning in an attempt to con the West into World War III. What really makes this story truly noteworthy is that Denisova was actually punished.

[Prefatory Note: The following post was published in a somewhat modified form in COUTERPUNCH, May 20, 2022. Its main theme is the contrasting normative logics derived from law (Westphalian logic)  on one side, and power politics (geopolitical logic) on the other side. The regulatory guidance of law derives from agreement and interpretation, and that of power politics, […]

[Prefatory Note: A slightly modified version was published in CounterPunch, 4/29/2022; the recent acknowledgement that U.S. goals are, at best, secondarily related to the wellbeing of Ukraine, and primarily by the dangerously regressive goals of taking on challengers to the major premise of unipolarity, which has guided U.S. grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. […]

Western media reports Russian forces secretly buried up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians in "mass graves" . However, Journalist Eva Bartlett provided video showing grave diggers refuting the Western claims designed to demonize Russia and stir up support for war.

[Prefatory Note: I post once more on the Ukraine War, emphasizing its geopolitical manipulation at the expense of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, and all around the world who are suffering from its spillover effect of higher prices and scarcer supplies of food, energy, fertilizer, and other goods and services. Stopping the Geopolitical War being […]