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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Jon Finer argues that a just and durable peace in #Ukraine cannot come from pressuring Kyiv alone.
A lasting settlement must also involve pressure on #Russia to make concessions.
Watch the full conversation now on YouTube ⬇️
Link in the comments.
💭 Iran at War: The Russian Angle
@hannanotte.bsky.social examines Iran’s deterrence strategy, which relied on #nuclear threshold status, ballistic #missiles, and #proxy forces.
If that strategy ultimately failed, what lessons does it hold for nuclear hedging and nonproliferation going forward?
🔴 The Long View
Historian Maurice Casey reflects on a deeper lesson from the #Soviet experience.
Alongside greed and the pursuit of power, human history also reveals a persistent desire to build a better world.
Full conversation linked in the comments ⬇️
💭 #Iran at War: The Russian Angle
@nicolegrajewski.bsky.social explains why the Russia–Iran relationship is not an alliance.
It is a partnership shaped by shared interests, regime security concerns, and significant limits rooted in historical mistrust.
Full conversation linked below ⬇️
🔴 #Siberia has long been imagined in Russian culture in two radically different ways.
A place of exile and brutality.
Or a frontier of freedom and opportunity.
Sophie Pinkham explains ⬇️
💭 #Iran at War: The Russian Angle
@hannanotte.bsky.social explains how #Russia localized production of #Shahed drones and can now produce them at scale.
She also discusses how a prolonged Middle East conflict could affect supply chains and political attention around #Ukraine.
Link in comments ⬇️
⚪️ Happening tomorrow
💭 Iran at War: The Russian Angle
@nicolegrajewski.bsky.social explains how tensions involving #Iran could affect #Russia’s broader interests in the Gulf, where Moscow’s economic ties to GCC states often exceed its ties to Tehran.
Full conversation in the comments ⬇️
⚫ The Russia File
Alexander Herzen’s legacy is being revisited and contested in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Kathleen Parthé examines how history and dissent intersect in contemporary political discourse.
Read:
www.kennaninstitute.org/articles/ale...
⚪ Origins of the War
Ambassador Daniel Fried of @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social joins us to examine the deep origins of #Russia’s 2022 invasion of #Ukraine.
🗓 March 4 | ⏰ 11 AM ET
Register:
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
💭 Iran at War: The Russian Angle
A major war against #Iran raises urgent questions about Russia’s role in the Middle East.
@hannanotte.bsky.social and @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social
assess the broader implications.
Register:
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
⚪️ Happening Tomorrow
⚫️ The Russia File
Joseph Dresen argues that while recent U.S. policy shifts may appear beneficial for Moscow, #Russia’s long-term strategic position is weakening.
Full article:
www.kennaninstitute.org/articles/tru...
⚪ Yaroslav Hrytsak on early partition discussions: annexing territory from Odessa to Kharkiv if #Ukraine moved West.
A segment on long-term strategic thinking behind the war.
Full discussion in the comments.
🔴 Happening Tomorrow
Watch the full conversation on our YoutTube channel: youtu.be/dDj-ZmqWJVU?...
⚪ Former National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, on #NATO, #Ukraine, and whether war could have been averted.
He argues there were diplomatic options. #Putin did not test them.
Full discussion in the comments ⬇️
🔴 The Long View #013
How did #Nazi Germany’s war against Soviet #Russia shape the #Holocaust?
Jochen Hellbeck discusses newly declassified archives and the ideological roots of annihilation on the Eastern Front.
March 5 | 11:00 AM ET
Register ⬇️
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📺 Watch full episode: youtu.be/E2qIW0uzOX4?...
🔴 Soviet domestic #workers were not confined to one role.
Labor shortages and legal protections created leverage and mobility across sectors.
Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel 📺
🔴 POWs as a “captive audience.”
@susangrunewald.bsky.social explains how Allied denazification efforts included reeducation programs in German POW camps, including those run by the Soviet Union.
Explore the full recording on our YouTube channel
⚫ #Cheburashka’s revival is more than nostalgia.
Maxim Trudolyubov examines how children’s entertainment, state cultural funding, and the avoidance of political reality intersect in today’s #Russia
Read the full essay:
www.kennaninstitute.org/articles/che...
