Quatre ans après l'invasion russe à grande échelle, Taras Bilous — historien socialiste, rédacteur de la revue Commons : Journal of Social Criticism et soldat dans les forces armées ukrainiennes — livre une analyse lucide des perspectives de paix. Bilous soutient que si la société ukrainienne, y compris l'armée, est de plus en plus favorable à un gel du conflit, les négociations menées par Trump se sont avérées contre-productives, cédant du terrain à la Russie sans obtenir de concessions (…)

Four years into Russia's full-scale invasion, Taras Bilous — a socialist historian, editor of Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, and serving soldier in the Ukrainian armed forces — offers a clear-eyed assessment of the prospects for peace. Bilous argues that while Ukrainian society, including the army, increasingly favours freezing the conflict, Trump's negotiations have been counterproductive, surrendering leverage to Russia without securing meaningful concessions. He warns that a bad (…)

The Liberal Democratic Party's landslide in the 8 February lower house elections masks a fragile consensus: barely one in five eligible voters backed the LDP, real wages have fallen for four consecutive years, and the geopolitical gamble with Beijing and Seoul carries escalating risks. The 8 February elections for the Japanese lower house delivered Sanae Takaichi a result without precedent in the history of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The LDP won 316 seats out of 465, surpassing (…)