Lev Stesin
ARTICLES BY: Lev Stesin
After Ukraine and Iran, NATO Must Change
The war with Iran -- along with the Ukraine war -- have exposed wide cracks in NATO. The political and economic realities have changed dramatically...
The Molotov Pact — and Why Putin Will Never Accept Peace with Ukraine
On August 24, 1939 -- almost exactly 86 years ago -- Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed the...
President Trump’s Iran Attack Did Not Increase Deterrence on the World Stage
The US strike on Iran was a surprising military and political development. It went completely against President Trump’s long held beliefs and publicly declared intentions...
Why Do Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE Need All Those American Weapons?
During last week’s visit to the Middle East, President Trump signed a number of arms deals with some of the richest countries in the region...
A Threat From Russia: The Wounded Maestro of Chaos May Strike Back
Russia is wounded. It is bleeding and embarrassed. For a country with a history of asserting and reasserting its pride, a diminished standing is not...
Israeli Protests Were Decades in the Making; Now the Country Must Determine Its Future
The dramatic events in Israel are not just the result of proposed judicial reforms. They are not caused by the bill to eliminate application of...
Elon Musk, George Soros, and Modern Antisemitism
On Monday, May 15, Elon Musk attacked George Soros in a tweet. Musk often attacks everything and everyone -- with China being a notable exception....
The Jewish Political Right Is Betraying Ukraine
When it comes to the war in Ukraine, the Jewish political right is showing its intellectual exhaustion, fueled by the dumbing-down years of the culture...
The Kremlin’s Eternal ‘Jewish Question’
On Tuesday, July 5, The Jerusalem Post reported that the Russian government had sent a letter to the Jewish Agency regarding its activities in the...
Anti-Zionism: the Modern Antisemitism
What is antisemitism? Despite many recent and more seasoned articles, and as many long scientific papers written over the years on the subject, all have...
Fearing Putin’s ‘Liberation’ of Belarus
Most observers agree that the autocratic president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, appears to be on his way out, and that Russia will play a key...
Why NATO Must Survive
Seventy years ago, at the dawn of the Cold War, NATO was forged as a pan-Atlantic alliance to resist Soviet aggression. From its outset, the US...
History Is Misremembered by Left and Right
Contemporary Jewish discourse is full of nostalgia for the glorious, not-so-distant past. Reading through newspapers or listening to speeches at conferences and public gatherings, one...
