Sitemap - 2025 - Phillips’s Newsletter
Weekend Update #140: The US Cuts Ukraine Off: If Only Comrade Stalin Knew!
Will Trump Change His Mind On Aiding Ukraine?
NATO’s New Defence Spending Pledge Is a Distraction
"Daddy" Just Accelerated The Killing Of Ukrainians
The US should pull out of the Middle East
Weekend Update #139: The NATO "Daddy" Summit And The Martyrdom Of Ukraine
The Weirdest Air Campaign In History
An Interview With Andriy Zagorodnyuk
So Trump Bombed Iran--Thankfully, Wars Always End In A Day
Weekend Update #138: Do Not Forget About Ukraine
If Trump Will Not Join The War, What Then?
The Conscription Comeback and the Social Contract
The Israel-Iran Air War: Destruction Vs Coercion
Weekend Update #137: The Two Weeks Are Up--But Instead Of Sanctions There Are Kisses
Air "Supremacy" Seems To Have Been Achieved--Its Results Could Be Dramatic
Putin Has Won: The US Government Now Speaks His Narrative
Why I Believe That The US Government Is Helping Russia Kill Ukrainians
The Escalation Debate Strikes Back
Weekend Update #136: The War In A Nutshell
Chat With Adam Kinzinger: The Trump Skeptics Are Back
Trump Might Be Feeling Pressure For Protecting Putin--But Not From Those Who Matter
European Support For Ukraine Remains Solid and Germany Is Stepping Up
Weekend Update#135 (Update): The Ukrainians Just Pulled Off The Most Successful Operation Of The War
Is the President of the USA acting like an "Agent of Influence" for Putin?
A Senior Republican Speaks: Part 3
Weekend Update #134: The Week When Everything and Nothing Changed
With The War Set To Continue These Are The Issues To Watch
Ukraine’s Integration Into the European Defence Industrial Base
Did Trump Just Pull A "Houthi" on Russia-Ukraine?
Weekend Update #133: The Istanbul Talks
Playing Along in Trump’s Ceasefire Charade
Well, Putin Certainly Believes Trump Is Full Of Sh@t
The Right Way To Deal With Trump
Weekend Update #132: How Long Will Europeans Smile As Trump Humiliates Them?
Trump's Great Service To Putin
Episode 28: Drones and Defensive War; Is Trump Pivoting To Help Ukraine?
What Germany’s Merz Mayhem Tells About Power Dynamics in Europe
The Perils Of A European Pivot To China
Weekend Update #131: Was This The Week Putin Miscalculated?
First Ukraine Was Collapsing, Now Ukraine "Can't Win"...
Weekend Update #130: "Concessions" That Are Not Concessions
Europe Has Failed, But Ukraine Might Still Save It
The Trump "Final" Proposal For Ukraine
What Happens If Trump Does Say He's "Done" With The War?
Weekend Update #129: The Lost Opportunity--We Are Seeing Why Trump's Election Mattered So Much
We Are Getting Closer To The Great Crisis
Trump Is Helping Putin Kill Ukrainians
Losing A War Before It Started
Weekend Update #128: The Third Year: A Test Of Modern War
Sentiment Can Be Overrated--Trust Cannot
How The USA Aided Ukraine Not To Win A War
Episode 27. The Battlefield, Trump, Europe and Ukraine
Weekend Update #127: Cavoli Testifies On The War--Yes ATACMS Mattered And Other Issues
How To Make US Rivals Stronger: 101
How The USA Aided Ukraine Explains A Great Deal
Weekend Update #126: What Putin Probably Means
Deal With Trump Like Canada and Greenland
Ukraine Was Just Knifed In The Back
The Story Of The Year For Many Reasons
Weekend Update #125: The Trump-Putin Call; Stop Being Shocked!
A Ceasefire Wont End The War, Only Change It
US Popular Opinion And War: A Crucial Change
Weekend Update #124: Trump and Putin Are Still Together
Hope Is A Bad Thing, Maybe The Worst Of Things
Another Chat With Adam Kinzinger
The Trump/Putin Plan For Ukraine
Weekend Update #123, Part 2: A European Response Primer
Weekend Update #123: The Week The USA Started Killing Ukrainians
We Have Witnessed A Historic Failure of Leadership
Did You Know History Would Be Different If Zelensky Had Worn A Tie?
What Europe Should Have Done To Prepare For With Trump
Weekend Update #122: Trump Opens His Mouth and Putin Comes Out
Episode 26. Trump Cannot Be Trusted and What That Means: The State of the War
Just Say Thank You and Shut Up
Why is Europe Staying in an Abusive Relationship?
A Year of Ukrainian "Collapse" Narratives:
More Mafia State Alignment and Merz Declares Independence
Weekend Update #121: The Mafia State Takes Over the USA
The Self-Defeating Machismo of a "Transactional" Foreign Policy
The US Has Taken Sides--Against Democracy
Trump and Putin: Aligning over Ukrainian Elections
Weekend Update#120: The US Changes Sides?
This Is Not Appeasement, It Is Worse
The Trump Plan Has Been Basically The Same For 6 Months
De-Mechanizing and De-Populating the Front Line
Conversation with Adam Kinzinger
Trump And The Dirty Little Secret of US Power
Damaging US Relationships for Nothing
Episode 25. Trump and Ukraine, The Battlefield, Ranged Strike
Weekend Update #118: The Trump Administration’s Talking Points are Straight from Moscow
Taiwan is "Strategic" and its Fate will Determine the Future of the Asia-Pacific Region
The US Seems to Be Deliberately Weakening its Global Position
Weekend Update #117: OK, the War was not Ended on Tuesday--So what Now?
Davos Impressions and Ukraine: Dealing with a Cult
Experience Davos From Your Own Living Room
Trump Rescuing Tik-Tok; Can the USA be Bothered to Save Itself?
Weekend Update #116: One Day Until A New World: Case Study on Sanctions
He Could Not Even Wait Until The Inauguration
The Second Truth: The Unhealthy Aristocracizing of US Politics
The Best Way to Appeal to Trump?
Weekend Update #115: Trump is Openly Operating Under Russian Reflexive Control
Where are the Realists Defending Trump?
MAGA has Built a Castle of Lies, But it is Grounded on Two Truths
Weekend Update #114: The Year that Confirmed Russia Can Be Beaten