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The Chakhoyan Dispatch

The world’s future depends on Ukraine’s victory. This publication unpacks the geopolitical and economic forces shaping the fight

By Andrew Chakhoyan

Peace through strength means: Russia must lose and Ukraine must win. No other path to durable peace exists.

Performative pacifism doesn't prevent violence. It invites it.

Europe keeps trying to crack the Russian riddle: Why invade neighbors? Why the war crimes? But the answer hides in plain sight.

The Kremlin’s legitimacy rests on aggression towards neighbors and subjugation at home. Until that logic is shattered, peace is impossible.

Moscow’s war is coming home, and the May 9 'victory cult' spectacle that used to whip the people of Russia into frenzy now looks less like triumph.

Moscow can't beat the West on the battlefield. So it's waging a different kind of war.

Stop othering Ukraine or you'll soon be othered by Russia.

Behind the façade of strength lies economic decay, demographic collapse, and military overreach. Russia isn’t rising — it’s rotting.