The Tradition of Terror Continues
THOMAS M. GREGG The NKVD’s wartime record foreshadowed Russian atrocities in Ukraine
Europe
FRENCH TOAST
DAVID BERLINSKI, PARIS “France Hasn’t Said its Last Word” (La France n’a pas dit son dernier mot) by Éric Zemmour, Ed. Rubempré, September 2021.
SORROWS OF THE SÜRGÜNLIK
AMBASSADOR CALLISTA L. GINGRICH, WASHINGTON, DC The persecution and perseverance of the Crimean Tatars continues. The war in Ukraine will determine whether their culture and identity survives.
A SYRIAN’S ADVICE TO UKRAINIANS
Adnan Hadad joined the Syrian revolution because he wanted to live freely in his own country. He’s now an exile in Paris. He understands what Ukrainians are now experiencing—and how much worse it can get—in a way most people can’t. Claire Berlinski spoke to him about Syria, Ukraine, Putin, Obama, Biden, red lines, US foreign policy, and how the world decides what it cares about.
THIS IS OUR WAR
NICOLAS TENZER, PARIS If we don’t fight it now, we will lose it—like all the previous ones
WHAT MAKES UKRAINIANS SPECIAL?
CHRISTINE QUIRK, NICE Nothing, writes Christine Quirk, who has been watching Ukrainians do the hard work of figuring out how to be a democracy. We can do it, too.
PARIAH MISSILES
BERTIL LINTNER, CHIANG MAI Myanmar and North Korea have quietly restored military ties and are working to produce guided, ballistic, and submarine-launched missiles in Myanmar.
THE QUAD IN FOCUS
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI Something’s cooking in Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Central to any new geopolitical calculus in the region is India, whose strengths and weaknesses have never been in sharper focus.
THE THINGS WE DON’T KNOW
ROBIN HÄGGBLOM, HELSINKI It’s easy to think we have a better idea what’s happening in Ukraine than we really do.
KAHN’S LADDER
JOSHUA TREVIÑO, AUSTIN The need for American escalation dominance.