Tag: Russia
Posted on October 8, 2023
We Have No Songs for Great Halls and Evil Times
The past few weeks have been heartbreaking. Russia continues its unjust invasion of Ukraine, purposefully targeting civilians in an effort to break the Ukrainian’s spirit. Azerbaijan launched another attack against Armenia. And just last night, Hamas crossed from …
Posted on July 2, 2023
Big Trouble in Little Moscow: Wagner, Prigozhin, and Putin
In one of the more mindboggling turns of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I get to write the following sentence: a former caterer-turned-mercenary-warlord led an armed insurrection against the Russian government. His Wagner forces got within a few hundred …
Posted on November 6, 2022
Russia, Iran, and Autocratic Friendship Circles
I live my life by a simple set of rules. Rule Number One? Don’t go to jail. It’s not relevant to today’s Wandering, but it always bears repeating. Rules Number Two and Three, however, are germane: read, and …
Updated on April 10, 2022
Ukraine, Russia, and the Armchair Battalions
It’s an odd feeling, living in a stretch of time you know will get a paragraph in future history textbooks. With an equal measure of lies and tanks, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine on 24 February 2022. It …
