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The Ukraine war enters its fifth year and there are no signs that the fighting will end anytime soon.
Polling in Russia suggests strong support for President Vladimir Putin. Yet below the surface, popular sentiment is more mixed.
James Rodgers talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about why Russia turned its back on the west.
The expiration of the New START treaty has the US and Russia poised to increase the number of their deployed strategic nuclear weapons, pushing the world into dangerous territory.
The US president has reportedly told Volodymyr Zelensky he musty hold an election by May 2026.
The US president’s plan for Ukraine looks far-fetched and one-sided – but it might buy Volodymyr Zelensky and his allies valuable time.
Little or no progress on a ceasefire as Ukraine suffers its coldest winter in a decade.
Any end to the fighting in Ukraine looks as far away as ever.
Kyiv is being told to give up territory which forms its main barrier preventing Russia from sweeping across Ukraine.
Video evidence flatly contradicts the Trump administration’s account of Alex Pretti’s death.
Orwell is feted for the farsightedness of his geopolitical vision as long ago as the 1940s. But a lot of writers were thinking along similar lines.
Russian forces are still battling over territory in eastern Ukraine after 1,418 days of war.
President Donald Trump’s threats against independent media and free speech look a lot like the actions of autocrats elsewhere intent on undermining the institutions meant to keep them in check.
US wound down its presence in Greenland at the end of the cold war. Now it wants to beef it up again.
It’s a blatant breach of international law which which will encourage Russia and China to follow suit.
The US intervention in Venezuela makes it clear NZ’s ‘softly softly’ foreign policy isn’t a feasible long-term response to a shifting world order.
To placate pro-Moscow governments in Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia, the EU had to include an ‘opt-out’ clause for its support for Ukraine.
Over a turbulent year, all roads have led to Doald Trump.
Russia can still sustain the war in Ukraine, but only by passing more of the cost on to households and firms.
Museveni’s iron grip on the Ugandan military makes it difficult to imagine a peaceful transfer of power.



















