Press play to take heed to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. Going through re-election in Could or June, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is keenly conscious that his political fortunes depend upon a fast and decisive response to Monday’s earthquake and its aftershocks that devastated cities in southern Turkey and killed hundreds. …

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “A vulgar low Irishman, [who] sings a good song, drinks anyone’s brandy and water, and smokes as many cigars as a Jolly Good Fellow. He is just the sort of chap to get information, particularly out of youngsters.” These had been the …

What a distinction a conflict makes.  The Ukrainians’ months-long marketing campaign to safe German-made Leopard 2 tanks and American-made M1 Abrams attests to how battle tanks are as soon as once more being recognized as key floor elements in combined-arms warfare. Solely two years in the past, international locations just like the U.Okay. have been …

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. It seems it’s solely a matter of time earlier than the Kremlin orders one other draft to replenish its depleted ranks and make up for the battlefield failings of its command. This week, Norway’s military chief mentioned Russia has already suffered staggering …

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Western nations started imposing financial and commercial sanctions on Russia immediately after its invasion of Ukraine began. Their goal was to not only punish Russia and disrupt President Vladimir Putin’s war machine, but there was hope that the resulting economic hardship might …

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. If Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes a quick reshuffle of generals can revive the fortunes of his faltering campaign in Ukraine and quell bitter turf wars among his commanders, he’s likely to be disappointed. After only three months as …

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.   “We have to learn and learn,” Russian political commissar Pavel Kalitov confided in his journal in September 1942. “For a start, we must stop being so careless.”   His words foreshadow the complaints of pro-war Russian critics today, fervent in the face …

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. There’s one factor Western and Russian navy strategists agree on — crowding numerous primarily new conscripts inside a constructing inside vary of Ukrainian missiles in order that they might see within the new 12 months was a deadly error. “They need to …

Press play to take heed to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to mine his nation’s historical past, appropriating useless czars and different notable figures for his most well-liked nationwide narrative — and his picks might be …