George Robertson: Why Russia fears the European Union
The former Nato secretary general on his conversations with Vladimir Putin.
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How Mike Johnson defied the Trumpists in Congress over Ukraine
The US Senate has approved a bill for $95bn worth of foreign aid – thanks to the Republican speaker of…
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Ukraine is Europe’s problem now
Germany expects a long war of attrition in Ukraine. That is a war Putin is likely to win.
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Natalia Ponomarchuk: “War has its sounds. I recognise them wherever they appear”
The Ukrainian conductor on fleeing Kyiv, Mendelssohn and why “war shows the true faces of people”.
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The German SPD’s foolish attachment to Putin’s Russia
Olaf Scholz’s centre-left party refuses to abandon its nostalgic ties to Moscow – and is paying a heavy political price.
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Kyiv’s recurring grief
Travelling through Ukraine, it’s clear that the country cannot escape its past.
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The ugly truth about Russia’s missing money
Western democracies are giving Vladimir Putin so much cash that he’s having to hide it.
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The West is revealing its hand to Putin
Emmanuel Macron’s threats to send ground troops to Ukraine only exposes Europe’s deepening divisions over the war.
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The West underestimated Russia
There will be no total victory for Ukraine, but Kyiv’s allies can help halt the Russian advance.
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The slipperiness of ceasefire
Why the path to peace is shorter in Gaza than Ukraine.
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The best New Statesman Ideas essays of 2023
Our pick of the finest writing from the past year.
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What Putin learned from Hitler
The two dictators considered themselves engaged in a life-and-death struggle with Western imperialism – and retaliated with their own plans…
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History offers Ukraine slender hope for a decisive victory
The wars between Finland and Soviet Russia in the 1940s hold lessons on how peace might be achieved today.
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Death of a warlord
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s assassination won’t help Russia’s flailing war effort in Ukraine.
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Casualties of the counteroffensive
In the summer’s vicious fight for territory, Ukraine is suffering heavy losses. But wounded soldiers are determined to return to…
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Why the EU cannot admit Ukraine as a member
Until the European Union undergoes deep structural change, the door will remain shut.
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What realists get wrong about Ukraine’s counteroffensive
Critics such as John Mearsheimer are wrong to present the war as a simple artillery duel in which the advantage…
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The truth about Nigel Farage’s bank accounts
What’s behind the apparently sinister de-banking of the Reform UK president – and why is the Prime Minister involved?
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It is naive to think that Vladimir Putin’s fall is imminent
Failed coups often have few major consequences, and the Wagner Group’s mutiny may not alter the Ukraine war’s outcome.
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Mutiny of the mercenaries
Prigozhin’s putsch has cast doubt on the future of Russia’s war.
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