Morten Hammeken is a Danish historian and author. He specializes in online disinformation and contemporary European politics, and he edits the weekly newsletter EuropaNyt.
The Russian state has forced many antiwar leftists into exile, cutting them off from ordinary Russians. But activists are well aware that change in Russia must come from within, mobilizing ordinary people around their own interests.
Three years since a coup restored full military rule in Myanmar, armed rebels are on the offensive. The country’s civil war is often painted in terms of ethnic strife — yet the opposition forces alone uphold the hope of an inclusive democracy.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fed calls for the West to radically step up its own military spending. An arms race only increases the risk of a conflict between China and the US — a global disaster that we must do everything in our power to prevent.