Under the Sun“ A monthly column of random, historical vignettes... The post Putin & Napoleon: A True Story of Overreach, ...

On March 13, 2025, a public hearing was held in the budget committee of the German Bundestag on the planned amendment to the ...

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

A Russian strategist said small FPV drones had made infantry weapons such as machine guns and mortars obsolete. A US expert ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

A former convict-turned-restaurateur, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s humble origins gave way to an astonishing, if unlikely, ascent.

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

Member of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Natalya Nikonorova stressed that European countries’ ...

saying that some people “want to return to the times of Napoleon, forgetting how it ended” — a reference to the emperor’s failed invasion of Russia in 1812. Macron responded by calling Putin “an ...

It has been three years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the conflict has had a profound effect on the Russian weapons industry, causing its arms exports to plummet. The ...

Tensions flare as Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked Emmanuel Macron’s nuclear shield proposal for Europe, warning that some people forget how Napoleon’s reign ended. This came after Macron ...

In a fiery response to Macron’s proposal for a European nuclear shield, Putin mocked the French president, referencing Napoleon’s disastrous Russian invasion. Macron’s plan to extend France ...