Fabian Hoffman

Nov 22, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | Anastasiia Lapatina |Fabian Hoffman |Jen Patja

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With After more than a year of pleas from Kyiv, the U.S. finally let Ukraine use Western long-range weapons for attacks inside Russia. Lawfare Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Fabian Hoffman, a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo, to talk about the strategic and tactical effects of such attacks, what’s behind the timing of this decision, and why it took so long for the U.S. to finally change course.

Sep 27, 2024 | thespectator.com | Boris Johnson |Claire Lowdon |Jacob Heilbrunn |Fabian Hoffman

KyivThe young amputee had a question. We were sitting once again in the rehab center in Kyiv, and I was looking at the same sort of injuries I saw last year: the missing limbs, the cranial scars, the withered hands and feet that no longer obeyed their owners’ commands. The difference was that Vladimir Putin’s carnage had been inflicted on a new group of Ukrainians — noticeably younger than last year’s victims, and now including a woman.

Sep 27, 2024 | thespectator.com | Jacob Heilbrunn |Fabian Hoffman |Owen Matthews |Michael Evans

Reacting to Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, earlier this week, Donald Trump reiterated his long-standing ambition to bring Russia’s war in Ukraine to a quick negotiated settlement instead of continuing with open-ended military support to Kyiv.

Sep 27, 2024 | thespectator.com | Jacob Heilbrunn |Alexander Larman |Fabian Hoffman |Amber Duke

They were the odd couple, one lumbering in his trademark oversized Brioni suit, the other ripped in his olive green military attire. The two had been engaged in a kind of mano-a-mano verbal combat before their official meeting in Manhattan at Trump Tower. It was getting ugly.

Sep 27, 2024 | thespectator.com | Deborah Ross |Thunderdome Kamala |Ben Domenech |Fabian Hoffman

Megalopolis, which draws parallels between the fall of the Roman empire and modern-day America, is a film by Francis Ford Coppola — and it couldn’t, in fact, be more by Francis Ford Coppola if it tried. He wrote, produced, directed and self-financed it ($120 million; ouch) and even found the time to be its greatest fan. On the film review sharing platform Letterboxd he has awarded it five stars. Way to go, Francis. We’re behind you even though, to be honest, you lost us quite early on.