I will postpone any comments on the current grain dispute between Ukraine and Poland until the election in Poland is over.

I especially like the false dilemma between "either commit everything to a costly all-out offensive" or "admit defeat, entrench, and wait Russia out."

Most freelance commentators are now firmly in the “nothing will ever happen with the Ukrainian counteroffensive” territory. Same as last year around the same time.

While we would all want the sanctions against Russia to be airtight, even the current flawed system weakens the aggressor's ability to wage war—parallel imports, sanction-busting, etc., are costly and less efficient. Still, the global community should continue to tighten the sanctions regime.

The Western press' view on the current Ukrainian counteroffensive seems to suffer from bipolar disorder, going from "Russians will fold immediately" to "it's obvious now that Ukraine will not achieve anything." Both approaches are wholly based on emotions sold as expertise.

Hi everyone! Finally, I got into this BlueSky app. My Twitter is https://twitter.com/vox_voices I hope we all will gradually move here, although, with new social networks, you never know.