Manuel Hinds May 10, 2022 THE CHANGE IN THE CHARACTER OF THE UKRAINIAN WAR As the character of the war in Ukraine shifts from what everybody expected, first a walk-in to Kyiv of the Russian forces or, later, a pulverization of the Ukrainian forces in the Donbas, to a true war with uncertain outcomes, many…

Manuel Hinds May 2022 The objective of the world order created at the end of World War II was to establish a liberal framework for the development of the entire world. This order collapsed with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What should be done to replace it? Even before the invasion, many powerful societies had…

With his decision to invade Ukraine, and with the incredibly savage way in which he is doing it, Vladimir Putin seems to have made the same mistake that Japan made in 1941 with its attack on Pearl Harbor. The circumstances were very similar. In that year, Japan attacked the United States, a much larger and…