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Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine is failing badly
The disastrous planning, the underestimation of Ukraine's forces and the West's willingness to supply and advise them, the poor tactics — the world will be studying Putin's catastrophic failure for decades, writes JOHN WIGHT
Women take a picture with an artwork on a building destroyed by fighting in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, November 13, 2022. The painting appears to have been made by British street artist Banksy, who confirmed on his Instagram account that he made another mural in the village that depicts a gymnast
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
WITH the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine now back in Ukrainian hands, there is no longer any hiding place for Putin or his general staff when it comes to the disastrous state of Russia’s military campaign after nine months.
It has revealed the Russian military machine to be substandard on land, at sea and in the air, dispelling the illusion of superpower status when it comes to its conventional armed forces.
Whether the ill-fated attempt to mount a lightning strike and circle Kiev at the outset of the conflict, resulting in significant losses of men and materiel; whether the sinking of the Moskva, flagship of the much-heralded Russian Black Sea Fleet in April; whether the rout suffered by Russian forces in the north-east around Kharkiv in September, losing thousands of square kilometres of territory in a matter of a weeks and leaving behind intact tonnes of equipment in the process; or whether now the grievous (from a Russian perspective) loss of Kherson, the only regional capital to have fallen under Russian control; all of it will haunt the Kremlin for years to come — and justifiably so.
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