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David Tait 11/27/25 David Tait 11/27/25

A Ruble for Your Peace?

A US-brokered “peace” that rewards Russian aggression at Ukraine’s expense is not pragmatism but appeasement, and history shows such deals only embolden dictators.

David Tait 9/24/25 David Tait 9/24/25

Are We Back on Course with Ukraine?

Has Trump’s flip-flopping nature finally flipped the right way at last? Could it be that, after wasting 9 months on isolationist utopia, the US president is finally seeing the optimism that could change the course of the Russian-Ukrainian War?