Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos is an UnHerd columnist and a former war reporter.

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America is abandoning Syria’s Kurds Turkish troops are gathering on the border as the West turns away

20 Dec 2024

How Britain ignored its ethnic conflict

20 Dec 2024

How Syria will shape Europe’s future

14 Dec 2024

Why Syria is back at war

06 Dec 2024

Will Putin escalate in Ukraine?

27 Nov 2024

Gladiator II: the perfect film for America’s declining empire Ridley Scott's sequel depicts a Rome which is decadent and immoral

16 Nov 2024

Welcome back to 1945

12 Nov 2024

Was Robert Jenrick the one that got away? Kemi Badenoch is the continuity candidate

02 Nov 2024

Labour’s blueprint for decline

31 Oct 2024

Unlike Lebanon and Gaza, Israel takes a cautious line with Iran Each individual strike is carefully calibrated to sidestep all-out conflict

28 Oct 2024

Returning Syrian refugees could reconcile Assad with Europe A Brussels-Damascus rapprochement is on the cards

13 Oct 2024

Britain has learned nothing from Palestine

05 Oct 2024

Israeli invasion could play into Hezbollah’s hands Netanyahu must consider his next step carefully

01 Oct 2024

Starmer’s relaunch was cursed

25 Sep 2024

The war for the Irish language

19 Sep 2024

Labour is surrendering Britain’s national security interests Keir Starmer should not let Harland & Wolff fall into administration

18 Sep 2024

Labour should ignore its immigration extremists

09 Sep 2024

Kursk shows Ukraine has no plan for victory Kyiv is running out of options — and Zelensky knows it

08 Sep 2024

Inside Belfast’s Sandy Row riot A working-class Loyalist community has become a hub of unrest

04 Aug 2024

Britain’s riots spread to Belfast Unrest in Northern Ireland has drawn together unlikely bedfellows

04 Aug 2024

How Britain ignored its ethnic conflict

03 Aug 2024

The man who defended Orientalism

31 Jul 2024

IDF chaos could accelerate Netanyahu’s downfall Domestic problems are quickly overshadowing tensions with Lebanon

30 Jul 2024

Searching for Britain’s JD Vance

24 Jul 2024

Ireland’s anti-immigration protests are turning more violent Yesterday's disorder in Coolock proves the issue is far from defused

16 Jul 2024

Labour’s war on North Sea oil threatens British security In a dangerous new world, we should exploit our natural resources

13 Jul 2024

How snobbery killed suburbia

13 Jul 2024

Nato summit will test Labour’s ‘realist’ foreign policy Pivoting away from the Indo-Pacific is a crucial first step

08 Jul 2024

Is the Turkey-Syria border the next Middle East flashpoint? A wave of pogroms has destabilised the area

03 Jul 2024

Tribal Britain won’t be governed

02 Jul 2024

Britain should stay out of an Israel-Lebanon war Netanyahu's US allies are stumbling into another regional catastrophe

24 Jun 2024

How will the Ukraine war end?

21 Jun 2024

After Gaza, Israel turns its sights on Lebanon Preparations are already underway for military action in the north

07 Jun 2024

Where is Britain’s grand strategy?

06 Jun 2024

Why modern British homes are getting mouldy The latest green efforts to retrofit insulation are making things worse

31 May 2024

Is Israel’s war cabinet about to break down? Benny Gantz is the latest government figure to criticise Netanyahu

19 May 2024

The Right’s new parties won’t save Britain

16 May 2024

The real aim of Russia’s Kharkiv campaign Capturing Ukraine's second city may not be Putin's objective

13 May 2024

How Eurovision became a carnival of nationalism

11 May 2024

Ireland’s populist insurgency

08 May 2024

Ukraine is running out of battlefield options Russian advances have exposed an exhausted defensive line

01 May 2024

Will the English ever revolt?

29 Apr 2024

Is a new migration crisis brewing on Ireland’s border? The government is struggling to respond to new protests

28 Apr 2024

The fatal flaw in David Lammy’s progressive realism

22 Apr 2024

What Thatcher can teach the pro-Israel Right

15 Apr 2024

When will Iran strike Israel? Tehran officials believe they have no choice

13 Apr 2024

How to weaponise the BBC

02 Apr 2024

Where next for Ireland’s populist rebellion? Horseback protestors took to the streets of north Dublin this weekend

26 Mar 2024

Moscow attack: Putin sees Ukraine and Isis as same threat European dynamics have shifted markedly in the last decade

24 Mar 2024

The gravediggers of British conservatism

22 Mar 2024

Will Britain lose World War Three?

01 Feb 2024

The Gaza war draws its first American blood How will Joe Biden respond to the deaths of three US troops in the Middle East?

28 Jan 2024

How realists sacrificed their morality

22 Jan 2024

Can a wider war in the Middle East still be prevented? Every actor in the conflict has been surprisingly controlled in their attacks

20 Jan 2024

Peace in Ukraine has never seemed further away

15 Jan 2024

The world should fear 2024

02 Jan 2024

My part in Vice’s downfall

27 Dec 2023

Did Israel kill too many civilians to win the war? The scale of fatalities has become too severe even for allies

19 Dec 2023

The truth about the ethnic cleansing in Gaza

18 Dec 2023

Did social media activism hurt the Ukrainian cause? State-sponsored boosterism created a bubble of unrealistic expectations

15 Dec 2023

How to decolonise Britain

11 Dec 2023

America is trapped in the Middle East As the Gaza conflict intensifies, Joe Biden has no good options left

05 Dec 2023

Will Ireland’s populist unrest come to Britain? The Tories have presided over a seismic demographic change

24 Nov 2023

Ridley Scott: our Anglo-Saxon Maximus

22 Nov 2023

David Cameron destroyed the Tories

15 Nov 2023

The post-America war has begun

10 Nov 2023

Remembrance Day angst is 2003 all over again Debates over this weekend's Palestine protest are bringing back old discourse

08 Nov 2023

Hezbollah is staying out of the Gaza war — for now Nasrallah's speech has only delayed a regional catastrophe

03 Nov 2023

The genius of the World at War

30 Oct 2023

Israel has no good options left Rapidly shifting international dynamics have boxed Benjamin Netanyahu in

28 Oct 2023

Israel is no longer Britain’s war

21 Oct 2023

Joe Biden’s legacy hinges on Gaza The President's Israel visit comes at a pivotal moment

18 Oct 2023

There is no liberal answer to the Israel-Palestine conflict The West's moral framework does not apply to ethnic disputes

09 Oct 2023

Who will save us from boarding-house Britain?

09 Oct 2023

Nato is weakening America

27 Sep 2023

Is Ireland drifting to the Right? A populist backlash is brewing

26 Sep 2023

Will Dominic Cummings destroy Westminster?

20 Sep 2023

Will Lampedusa split the EU? The continent has been failing on migration for too long

19 Sep 2023

US and Russia find common ground in Syria Both countries want to keep the conflict in the Middle East frozen

06 Sep 2023

Why is Britain so depressed?

04 Sep 2023

The Age of the Museum is over

29 Aug 2023

Russia’s African operation is spinning out of control Wagner forces may have overreached in Mali

23 Aug 2023

Does Ukraine need to compromise?

22 Aug 2023

Labour is right to reject Sadiq Khan’s eco-austerity The only way to hit Net Zero targets is to raise living standards first

23 Jul 2023

Britain is Europe’s liberal outcast

22 Jul 2023

Nato offers Ukraine the worst of all worlds Half a promise is worse than no promise at all

12 Jul 2023

Britain’s forgotten European empire

10 Jul 2023

Right-wing street fighters take on French rioters Radical youth movements are mobilising across the nation

05 Jul 2023

Why I’ve given up on the Conservatives

03 Jul 2023

The Prigozhin roadshow isn’t over

26 Jun 2023

Europe’s centre-right is the new migration mainstream Border control has become depoliticised in the EU

23 Jun 2023

Boris Johnson should destroy the Tories

16 Jun 2023

In Kurdish Syria, European Isis jihadists finally face trial The issue has been forgotten and the local authorities have lost patience

14 Jun 2023

How Aleksandr Dugin influences the West

12 Jun 2023

Rishi Sunak deserves praise for his foreign policy The PM is forging a more realistic and pragmatic role for the UK

09 Jun 2023

Is anyone at home in Northern Ireland?

05 Jun 2023

The violence in Kosovo could embolden Putin Tensions between Serbs and Albanians have invited a swift US response

02 Jun 2023

The Arab Spring exposed America’s weakness

31 May 2023

Erdoğan’s free but unfair election is a warning to the West The Turkish leader's playbook is spreading across Europe

29 May 2023