Category: Yurii Kopynets

The first part of this study focused on the origins and logic of Israel’s security model — from its historical foundations and the formation of a survival culture to the principles of a mobilization army, the role of reserves, technological superiority, and the doctrine of preemptive action.

Russia’s war against Ukraine has changed not only the European security landscape — it has also raised fundamental questions for humanity about values, freedom, and the very nature of the international order....

In Part One, we showed how imperial myths—from the appropriation of the legacy of Rus’ to Soviet falsifications of the Holodomor and the war—turned the past into a weapon against Ukraine. Next comes how this weapon works today: why putin needs history and what props up his aggression.

In the Russian-Ukrainian war unfolding before our eyes, the weapons are not only shells. Today, ideas kill. It is not only cities that are being destroyed—memory is being erased, the past is being distorted, archives are being burned, language is being wiped out. In this war, the history of Ukraine is not a school subject and not the pages of a textbook. It is another front...

Sometimes it seems that war is only about bullets, tanks, drone attacks, and endless reports from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But in reality, it has long been waged not only in the trenches. The war of the 21st century has many fronts — informational, emotional, symbolic. And on each of these fronts, Ukraine, without choosing to, has become the object of constant scrutiny...

The world today has changed not only technologically but also fundamentally in terms of information. People no longer search for news—it finds them. The TikTok algorithm feeds us “truth” in one-and-a-half-minute videos, while Facebook already “knows” what interests us even before we realize it ourselves. All of this is convenient and fast, but at the same time—very dangerous.

Undeniably, disinformation is one of the key threats to the modern global order, especially in the context of hybrid warfare. This type of conflict combines traditional military actions with information attacks, cyber threats, and other non-conventional methods of influence.

Europe today is a continent attempting to learn to live without illusions. Indeed, the entire world finds itself at a crossroads of significant changes, transformations not limited solely to the economy or social structures but extending profoundly into global security.

After the leadership change in the United States, the country’s policy on security issues in Europe underwent drastic changes. In particular, the states...