Jamie Dettmer

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  • Mar 27, 2024
    Don’t think that social media memes and clever stunts will topple Putin. Only a defeat in Ukraine can do that.  
  • Mar 25, 2024
    The echo of gunfire and grenade blasts had hardly subsided on Friday before Russian and Ukrainian officials started trading accusations, blaming each other for the massacre at a...
  • Mar 4, 2024
    The first strike in Israel’s campaign to hunt down those responsible for the Oct. 7 attacks is likely to have already taken place.  
  • Feb 26, 2024
    Stuck in a “grin & bear period it” period, the country’s now facing a Russia that’s organized for protracted war and a West that isn’t.  
  • Feb 21, 2024
    The sad truth is the absence of any serious mass opposition to Putin inside Russia — let alone to his war in Ukraine — speaks volumes.  
  • Feb 8, 2024
    Nineteenth-century Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle believed that “The History of the world is but the Biography of great men.” But it isn’t always...
  • Feb 5, 2024
    U.S. President Joe Biden is getting drawn into a game of whack-a-mole eagerly engineered by Iran.