The Battle of Tsushima, 1905, painting by Tōjō Shōtarō. By Tōjō Shōtarō – Public domain. The Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) was a pivotal conflict in modern history and is regarded as one of the first‘total wars’. It came to be described as‘World War Zero’, marking Japan’s rise as a world power whilst also exposing ... Read more
Photo: Semyon Skrepetsky (Simon Skrepetsky) / Facebook The 44-year-old Russian cartoonist Robert Kuzovkov, who used the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky, was shot dead on the street on the morning of Monday 15 June in Biała Podlaska, in eastern Poland, near the border with Belarus. Kuzovkov was shot five times in the head, chest and ... Read more
The rebellion of the Wagner group. Cartoon of 25/06/2023 in CTXT Within 24 hours, the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, attempted to ride Putin's coattails in retaliation for alleged Russian attacks on his positions in Ukraine and threatened to go into martial mode in Moscow. He called the move a "march ... Read more
A year of war in Ukraine. Cartoon from 25 February 2023 in CTXT. As an analyst of international conflicts I have no future, when the invasion of Ukraine began I said (or rather I wanted to believe) that it would all be over before the summer. Although I am not usually very optimistic, ... Read more
Every day I give the war a "spin" by looking here and there. I go between agencies so as not to get bogged down in watertight positions and I go around different media that call themselves independent and try to be so, and there are days when I have a similar sensation, saving ... Read more
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