https://znetwork.org/category/place/europe/ukraine/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:49:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/europe/ukraine/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-europe-reassert-itself-after-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-europe-reassert-itself-after-ukraine/#respond Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:14:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294688 Washington’s 2025 strike on Iran, the raid to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in early 2026, and its renewed interest in acquiring Greenland have clarified the country’s international priorities. Meanwhile, securing Ukraine’s independence, once a defining rallying cry of the liberal world order, has slipped to a second-tier concern, but remains central for Europe. Equally pressing for the continent is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-europe-reassert-itself-after-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/european-russophobia-and-europes-rejection-of-peace-a-two-century-failure/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/european-russophobia-and-europes-rejection-of-peace-a-two-century-failure/#respond Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:38:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292724 Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections have proven profoundly self-defeating. From the nineteenth century to the present, Russia’s security concerns have been treated not as legitimate interests to be negotiated within a broader European order, but as moral transgressions to be resisted, contained, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/european-russophobia-and-europes-rejection-of-peace-a-two-century-failure/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-a-peace-from-below-in-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-a-peace-from-below-in-ukraine/#respond Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:41:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292640 The Trump administration now looks closer than ever to stopping the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Until now, the US president had failed to fulfill his promise, but American diplomacy has gained two new advantages: the Russian army has achieved certain successes, and Ukraine has been engulfed in a political crisis that made President Volodymyr [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-a-peace-from-below-in-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-original-28-point-peace-plan-is-the-least-bad-option-for-ukraine-and-for-europe-as-a-whole/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-original-28-point-peace-plan-is-the-least-bad-option-for-ukraine-and-for-europe-as-a-whole/#respond Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:48:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292619 US President Donald Trump has made it very clear that he is an enemy of Europe. His  administration’s recent National Security Strategy contained deranged and racist raving  about Europe facing “civilizational erasure” due to immigration from the Middle East  and Africa, while also calling for interference in Europe’s internal affairs by propping up  far-right elements [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-original-28-point-peace-plan-is-the-least-bad-option-for-ukraine-and-for-europe-as-a-whole/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/if-trump-is-serious-about-peace-marco-rubio-has-to-go/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/if-trump-is-serious-about-peace-marco-rubio-has-to-go/#respond Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:58:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292166 Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional, and his foreign policy is a disaster. The United States remains mired in ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and now Trump is careening blindly into new wars in Latin America.  [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/if-trump-is-serious-about-peace-marco-rubio-has-to-go/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-imaginary-peace-president/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-imaginary-peace-president/#respond Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292029 One of the most common claims about the Trump 45 administration is that “He didn’t start any new wars.” This is demonstrably FALSE. During his first term, Trump became the ultimate causal agent for every one of the current conflicts with Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela. He not only maintained the trajectory of these conflicts [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-imaginary-peace-president/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-europe-betraying-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-europe-betraying-ukraine/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291948 In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko explore how EU leaders are undermining Ukraine to justify their plans to re-arm Europe. If EU leaders won’t send troops and won’t negotiate, whom does their “solidarity” really serve? And why are some in Brussels worried that peace itself would threaten their new militarisation agenda?]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-europe-betraying-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazas-vs-ukraines-capitulations-the-triumph-of-western-propaganda/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazas-vs-ukraines-capitulations-the-triumph-of-western-propaganda/#respond Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:44:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291848 Let us compare how leading Nordic European papers report on the “capitulation plan” imposed on the US-subordinated state Ukraine, and the magnificent “Peace Plan” on our victim, Gaza and the Palestinians. It is a stunning exercise in hypocrisy. After two years of attack and genocide by an illegal occupier, the West and its attack dog, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazas-vs-ukraines-capitulations-the-triumph-of-western-propaganda/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-cant-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-cant-end-the-war-in-ukraine/#respond Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:40:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291785 Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia’s top oil companies, but the United States still can’t stop the war in Ukraine. NATO’s goals cannot be met, as the world is increasingly multipolar and Western power is declining. To discuss in this episode of Geopolitical Economy Hour, geopolitical economist Radhika Desai analyzes the conflict with journalist Anatol [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-cant-end-the-war-in-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-neocon-realist-war-over-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-neocon-realist-war-over-ukraine/#respond Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:44:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291769 Donald Trump made some revealing remarks to the media as he flew to Florida for Thanksgiving on Wednesday. Asked if he thought Ukraine is being asked to give too much land to Russia in his proposal to end the war, Trump responded: “It’s clearly up to the Russians. It’s moving in one direction. … That’s land that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-neocon-realist-war-over-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europes-leaders-have-no-strategy-for-peace/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europes-leaders-have-no-strategy-for-peace/#respond Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291748 It is by now clear that European leaders prefer the war in Ukraine to continue, that they fear peace (a “quick” one anyway), that many believe Europe is already at war and seem “gung ho” to turn it into a shooting war, and that they are obsessed with inflicting defeat on Russia. Far less clear is why they think this way. Amid the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europes-leaders-have-no-strategy-for-peace/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-eus-ukraine-strategy-the-worst-foreign-policy-blunder-in-european-history-since-wwii/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-eus-ukraine-strategy-the-worst-foreign-policy-blunder-in-european-history-since-wwii/#respond Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291655 For more than three and a half years now, Ukraine – and with it the so-called ‘West’ – have been paralyzed by a dreadful, protracted war of attrition against Russia, and Europe is collectively heading into a hurtful military, political and economic defeat. This article reveals a series of pitfalls of European diplomacy allowing the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-eus-ukraine-strategy-the-worst-foreign-policy-blunder-in-european-history-since-wwii/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-28-pt-ukraine-war-plan/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-28-pt-ukraine-war-plan/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291627 This past week President Trump proposed a 28 Pt. plan to Russia and Ukraine as a basis for negotiations to end the current Ukraine-Russia war, now approaching its fourth year.  What’s behind the Trump proposal? Is it a further revelation of verbal understandings agreed to between Trump and Putin last August in Anchorage, Alaska? Or [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-28-pt-ukraine-war-plan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-trumps-reported-28-point-plan-for-ukraine-deliver-is-peace-within-reach/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-trumps-reported-28-point-plan-for-ukraine-deliver-is-peace-within-reach/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:03:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291544 The Trump administration’s stance on the Ukraine war is quite the roller-coaster. Initially, the Russo-Ukraine war would end “within 24 hours.” According to Donald Trump, President Zelenskyy is “a dictator without elections” who is “gambling with World War III” — in February. Following this, “talks are proceeding very well” and “many elements of a final [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-trumps-reported-28-point-plan-for-ukraine-deliver-is-peace-within-reach/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-the-economist-wants-europe-to-spend-400-billion-more-on-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-the-economist-wants-europe-to-spend-400-billion-more-on-ukraine/#respond Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290965 Federalizing the EU, not the political fantasy of defeating Russia, is the real goal, which requires another four years of proxy warfare and at least another $400 billion to complete. The Economist argued that the EU and the UK should meet Ukraine’s estimated $390 billion financing needs over the next four years. In their words, “Another [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-the-economist-wants-europe-to-spend-400-billion-more-on-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democrats-have-let-republicans-become-the-peace-party/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democrats-have-let-republicans-become-the-peace-party/#respond Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:26:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290084 When Donald Trump announced that he had helped broker an end to Israel’s onslaught in Gaza, it marked the achievement of a goal many anti-war activists had been struggling towards for two years. Few were bothered by the fact that it was Trump who ultimately presided over the cessation of violence; the goal was always [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democrats-have-let-republicans-become-the-peace-party/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-call-for-a-democratic-alternative-to-ending-the-ukraine-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-call-for-a-democratic-alternative-to-ending-the-ukraine-war/#respond Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:25:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288068 A year ago, I wrote an article entitled, “A Ukrainian-Russian Border Plebiscite? Anyone Got a Better Idea?” I hate to repeat myself, but unfortunately, one Trump-Putin and two Trump-Zelensky meetings later, I think we can safely conclude that the answer to the question posed was “No.” To reprise, do I think it likely that future negotiations will [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-call-for-a-democratic-alternative-to-ending-the-ukraine-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-do-we-know-about-zelensky-and-the-seven-dwarfs-visit-to-the-white-house/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-do-we-know-about-zelensky-and-the-seven-dwarfs-visit-to-the-white-house/#respond Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:30:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287651 With the usual qualifier that I could be entirely wrong, my sense is that both the Alaska Summit and Monday’s meeting at the White House were reality checks. They revealed that Putin was finally able to convince the “collective Trump” (Gilbert Doctorow’s term), that the war in Ukraine did not begin with the Russian invasion [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-do-we-know-about-zelensky-and-the-seven-dwarfs-visit-to-the-white-house/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287579 Completely absent in any of the governmental efforts for the last three and a half years to end the war on Ukraine is the issue of self-determination as it relates concretely to where the on-the-ground war and the huge percentage of casualties are primarily happening. The principle of nations having the right to make decisions [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ukraine-3/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ukraine-3/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287594 This post initially included a corridor photo which was fake. My fault, but that made no difference at all to the argument. It will definitely be good if the war in Ukraine draws to a close. Too many have died or been maimed, too many civilian assets have been destroyed. However the cynicism with which [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ukraine-3/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zelensky-leaves-washington-with-trumps-security-guarantees-but-are-they-enough/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zelensky-leaves-washington-with-trumps-security-guarantees-but-are-they-enough/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287499 The last time Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House earlier this year, he was berated by Donald Trump. On Monday, he returned with European leaders by his side. He emerged with some signs of progress on a peace deal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine. The presence of the European leaders no doubt had a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zelensky-leaves-washington-with-trumps-security-guarantees-but-are-they-enough/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-russia-talks-the-choice-between-peace-and-escalation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-russia-talks-the-choice-between-peace-and-escalation/#respond Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:15:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287408 Donald Trump came into office promising to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Now, six months later, his high stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska may have put the United States and Russia on a new path toward peace, or, if this initiative fails, could trigger an even more dangerous escalation, with [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-russia-talks-the-choice-between-peace-and-escalation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/open-letter-presidents-trump-and-putin-must-seize-the-moment-in-alaska/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/open-letter-presidents-trump-and-putin-must-seize-the-moment-in-alaska/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287347 This week’s summit between Presidents Trump and Putin in Alaska is an opportunity for Russia and the West to negotiate a peaceful settlement in Ukraine. There will be no perfect solution—for any settlement to resemble a just peace, each side will necessarily have to come away dissatisfied. We believe the more urgent goal of stopping [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/open-letter-presidents-trump-and-putin-must-seize-the-moment-in-alaska/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/putin-trump-meeting-endgame-or-pr-event/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/putin-trump-meeting-endgame-or-pr-event/#respond Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:26:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287176 Putin and Trump last week agreed to meet at a location in Alaska. Indications are the meeting will occur as soon as August 15, 2025 or soon after. In other words, in just days. Or perhaps a week or so at most. If we’re to believe the US media, the meeting is about Trump and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/putin-trump-meeting-endgame-or-pr-event/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-are-the-chances-for-peace-in-ukraine-right-now/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-are-the-chances-for-peace-in-ukraine-right-now/#respond Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:03:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286088 David Goeßmann: The talks a few weeks ago between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul came to nothing. What are the chances for peace? Anatol Lieven: I see no prospect for an end to the war at present. Russia and Ukraine remain far apart on peace terms, and the Trump administration has not put forward a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-are-the-chances-for-peace-in-ukraine-right-now/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-spider-man-sequence-one-second-closer-to-doomsday/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-spider-man-sequence-one-second-closer-to-doomsday/#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284590 In 2022, I was invited to participate in a book project that gathered leading scientists worldwide to address a topic that already seemed critically urgent: managing the nuclear order. In this context, we organised several online debates. As one of the few participants from the global (or European) periphery, I dared to ask: What order? Where do [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-spider-man-sequence-one-second-closer-to-doomsday/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-niemoller-moment-more-on-being-cancelled-post-keynesian-style/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-niemoller-moment-more-on-being-cancelled-post-keynesian-style/#respond Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284497 Last week I e-mailed a note titled “Goodbye pluralism: cancelled Post Keynesian style” which detailed my suspension by the Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES). That suspension unjustly sanctioned me for an earlier e-mail announcement of my article “The Ukraine war and Europe’s deepening march of folly”. The PKES has now responded, claiming I violated its list-serve rules. I [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-niemoller-moment-more-on-being-cancelled-post-keynesian-style/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-ukraine-to-greenland-are-trumps-geopolitical-ambitions-driven-by-mining/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-ukraine-to-greenland-are-trumps-geopolitical-ambitions-driven-by-mining/#respond Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:41:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284436 The clean energy transition that the Biden administration touted as the focus of its industrial policy required large amounts of mineral inputs. Batteries for electric vehicles depend on lithium, solar panels contain gallium and molybdenum, and powerful magnets in wind turbines can’t be built without rare earth elements. Biden’s landmark legislation, such as the 2022 [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-ukraine-to-greenland-are-trumps-geopolitical-ambitions-driven-by-mining/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-failed-istanbul-2-0-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-russia-no-takers-for-peace-at-this-point-war-to-continue/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-failed-istanbul-2-0-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-russia-no-takers-for-peace-at-this-point-war-to-continue/#respond Sat, 24 May 2025 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284143 Istanbul 2.0: A pre-meditated choreography of failure The long-anticipated negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, held once again in Istanbul on Friday 16 May (although initially scheduled for Thursday 15 May), have now effectively collapsed, as many expected they indeed would. The diplomatic theatre that unfolded bore less resemblance to a serious attempt at [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-failed-istanbul-2-0-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-russia-no-takers-for-peace-at-this-point-war-to-continue/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-and-europes-retreat-from-allied-unity-in-the-victory-over-nazi-fascism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-and-europes-retreat-from-allied-unity-in-the-victory-over-nazi-fascism/#comments Fri, 09 May 2025 09:27:25 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283516 Europeans have sunk so low that the European Union leadership warned EU heads of government against participating in Moscow’s May 9 celebrations this Friday of the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.  Nor is the EU inviting Russia to take part in anniversary events related to the liberation [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-and-europes-retreat-from-allied-unity-in-the-victory-over-nazi-fascism/feed/ 1