Jade McGlynn

Ukraine, United Kingdom

Senior Research Associate at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Writer at Jade’s Substack

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Blueprints

2 weeks ago | smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com | Jade McGlynn

In 2021, the Russian Federation released its National Security Strategy, followed in 2023 by its Foreign Policy Concept. At the time—especially in 2021—one might have dismissed these documents as paranoid, backward-looking, or self-aggrandising. But they were not relics.
Question de conscience : des trêves et des vérités • desk russie

3 weeks ago | desk-russie.eu | Jade McGlynn

Cet article de l’historienne militaire britannique a été publié juste avant la conversation téléphonique entre Donald Trump et Vladimir Poutine, mais l’accord sur la trêve limitée – qui comprend l’arrêt mutuel des frappes sur les structures énergétiques et l’arrêt des hostilités en mer Noire – ne change en rien le raisonnement de la chercheuse : qui croira-t-on en cas de violation de la trêve (celle-ci ou une autre) ? L’administration américaine sera-t-elle objective ? Rien n’est moins sûr.
Consciousness

1 month ago | smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com | Jade McGlynn

Some wars are about territory, others about power. Sometimes it seems like this war is about everything, but that might reflect my own engagement with it. Either way, as we have seen since late January, this war is also about consciousness—about how reality is interpreted, manipulated, and ultimately shaped. The ceasefire talks in Jeddah are no exception. Ukraine has signalled it is willing to accept an American proposal for a 30-day truce.
Despatch from Kharkiv

2 months ago | smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com | Jade McGlynn

Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote this piece for Engelsberg Ideas on the mood in Kharkiv on the two-year anniversary of the full-scale war. Reading it now is a pretty useful way to understand how European nations got into this mess. We don’t have another year to waste. We didn’t even have that year to waste. Written in Kharkiv. 24 Feb, 2024In Kharkiv, ordinary people didn’t do much to mark the two year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Sovereignty.

2 months ago | smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com | Jade McGlynn

The war in Ukraine is, at its core, a battle over sovereignty. Not just in the legal sense, but in the raw, unfiltered reality of power and survival. It is a war over who gets to decide Ukraine’s future—Ukraine itself, or an external force imposing its will through military occupation, coercion, and exhaustion. While Ukraine fights, it is Europe (for these purposes:EU+EEA+UK) that has already lost.
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

2 months ago | smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com | Jade McGlynn

Before February 2022, I remember laughing at reports that Oleg Tsaryov was being considered for a senior position in a Kremlin-imposed puppet government in Ukraine. It seemed absurd—Tsaryov was a has-been, irrelevant since 2014, and so illegitimate in Ukrainian eyes that his appointment would have been farcical.
Extraction

2 months ago | smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com | Jade McGlynn

Russian propaganda presents a neat and tidy story of occupation. At home, the Kremlin tells Russians that the occupied territories were always Russian, that Ukrainian ownership was an illegitimate blip in history. In the occupied territories themselves, the message is that life is better now under Russian rule—shiny new buildings, restored infrastructure, a return to “normality.” And for Western audiences, the message is even simpler: nothing to see here.
Pouchkine au-dessus des fosses communes

2 months ago | desk-russie.eu | Jade McGlynn

Les Russes parlent souvent de l’ « annulation » de la culture russe en Ukraine à cause de la russophobie du régime ukrainien. Selon l’autrice, ce discours du pouvoir russe est plutôt une tentative de dissimuler ses crimes de guerre et de justifier les politiques de russification. La réaction contre la culture russe en Ukraine doit être comprise comme une réponse au fait que le Kremlin (et ses prédécesseurs) ont eux-mêmes associé cette culture à leur impérialisme et au génocide en Ukraine.
(Ab)Normalisation

2 months ago | smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com | Jade McGlynn

Increasingly, I find it pointless to contribute to the policy debate around Ukraine in the UK. It’s not that there aren’t excellent roadmaps, policy papers, or analyses—there are. But none of it matters when there is no political will to engage with the reality of Russia’s war, let alone its consequences. The government won’t take the necessary steps, and I have no idea how to make them. Many colleagues here and in other European countries feel the same.
Les morts-vivants

2 months ago | desk-russie.eu | Jade McGlynn

En Ukraine, des gens meurent au front et sous les bombes : militaires, ambulanciers, travailleurs humanitaires, poètes et simples civils. À Kharkiv, les tombes creusées à l’avance attendent les prochains corps. Et que de disparus dont on ne connaît pas le sort : morts ou détenus dans des prisons, torturés ou encore kidnappés, comme tant d’enfants. Faisons-nous assez pour ne pas être hantés par ces destins ?

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