Brian Whitmore, Assistant Professor of Practice at UTA’s McDowell Center and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, spoke at the 2023 #CONNEXIONS Conference at the University of Texas at Austin on April 11-12. Continue reading
As he invades and menaces his neighbors; and trolls and threatens the West, Vladimir Putin has often been compared to a cartoonish villain – an image he appears to embrace, cultivate, and relish. Continue reading
In the wake of humiliating military setbacks in northeastern Ukraine, Vladimir Putin implicitly threatens the West with nuclear blackmail and calls up 300,000 reservists to replenish his depleted troops on the battlefield. Continue reading
The axis of autocrats in Eastern Europe is also an axis of war criminals. Continue reading
Vladimir Putin will travel next week to one of the only countries in Europe where he is still welcome in order to meet with one of his few remaining international allies. Continue reading
With war raging in Ukraine’s east and south, there are mounting concerns that the threat to the country’s north and west, including the capital Kyiv, could soon return. Continue reading
The axis of autocrats in Eastern Europe is also an axis of war criminals.
Russian air and missile strikes from Belarusian territory and airspace hit a Ukrainian kindergarten and an apartment complex on June 25. The attacks killed a 37-year-old man and injured his wife and seven-year-old daughter. Additionally, according to Ukraine’s northern military command, at least 20 rockets launched from Belarus struck the village of Desna, 70 kilometers north of Kyiv in the Chernihiv region. Continue reading
Vladimir Putin will travel next week to one of the only countries in Europe where he is still welcome in order to meet with one of his few remaining international allies. Continue reading
Belarus is becoming the lynchpin of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to expand the war in Ukraine. Continue reading
He allowed Russia to use Belarusian territory as a platform to attack Ukraine and permitted Moscow to deploy nuclear-capable missiles near the Ukrainian border. He hijacked a European airliner and manufactured a migrant crisis. And he has carried out a brutal crackdown on dissent that includes the torture of opposition figures.
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