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Grasping the Chance of Victory in Ukraine
+ freedom and hope in Estonia + the Wende in the Zeitenwende + Turkey
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Timothy Garton Ash
Europe and Freedom
Debates with Ypi, Applebaum, Snyder, Mounk, Krastev, Slaughter, Fukuyama et al - & a crucial Turkish election
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April 2023
Bernard-Henri Macron
plus Waiting for U-Day, Europe as Postimperial Empire, and upcoming...
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The state of the (European) union
+ Is its centre moving eastward? + Ukraine & the decolonisation of the Western mind
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March 2023
A curious experience
Plus: Angela Merkel - sleepwalker? The Crimea question. Putin - war criminal & Xi's gracious host
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Breturn?
plus our new polling with ECFR, 'Homelands', & a year of war in Ukraine
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February 2023
Ukraine after one year of Putin's full-scale war
My report & photos from Kyiv (and come join me to discuss my new book Homelands)
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In memoriam Yevhen, a soldier of Ukraine
Plus NYRB essay, 'Scholzing' and the spectre of President le Pen
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January 2023
Leopards for Ukraine after all
A brief note on Germany doing the right thing in the end
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The tragedy of Scholz's failure over Leopards for Ukraine
Contradictory, inconsistent, historically insensitive, morally problematic, disingenuous and counter-productive (but otherwise, just fine...)
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Germany has a special historical responsibility towards Ukraine
And should lead a coordinated European 'Leopard Plan' to send modern battle tanks to the embattled east European democracy. Now.
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What if Uncle Sam has dementia?
Deep worries about US, Tanks for Ukraine, A new Czech president
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