Hope for Ukraine Is Not a Strategy
The strongest part of President Biden’s State of the Union address was the section on the war in Ukraine. Biden condemned the Russian invasion. He welcomed the Ukrainian ambassador. He led Congress…
Beware wishful thinking when it comes to the Ukraine crisis
Here is what I would like to happen in Ukraine: Outraged by Russia’s aggression, armed Ukrainians in both the country’s military and its spontaneously formed civilian militias are able to fight hard enough in all…
Elections Have Consequences, And 2020’s Was War
here is a plethora of misinformation in corporate media on the potential World War III. Shocking, I know. Let’s clear a few things up: Vladimir Putin hasn’t lost. The West…
Sanctions Are Not Enough
Ever since last year, when Vladimir Putin began preparing for an invasion of Ukraine, President Biden has tried to deter him. Biden tried to reason with the Russian autocrat. He…
As the West Putters and Ponders, Putin Pounces
No one who has been paying attention can honestly say they were surprised the Russians invaded Ukraine. Oh, it’s possible to have been shocked by the timing or because what is…
Putin Can’t Be Appeased
Vladimir Putin has deployed some 100,000 troops to Russia’s border with Ukraine. He has moved fighter jets and antiaircraft defenses into neighboring Belarus. He has around 6,000 soldiers, as well…
How Democracies Perish
“Democracy needs champions,” President Biden said on December 9 as he called to order his summit of democracies. It sure does. Yet Biden has a funny way of championing it.…
The Belarus Uprising: A Repeat of Ukraine?
America’s great power competitors, China and Russia, are pushing back against the free world. China’s arc stretches from Hong Kong and the South China Sea through the Himalaya border with…
Ukraine On Life Support
The innumerable pathways of history to successes or failures are richly paved with a plethora of knowledgeable, yet in many cases erroneous 20/20 hindsights by contemporary as well as future…
Ukraine’s Opening
There are uncountable narratives when it comes to the actual and perceived domestic as well as international predicaments of the newly independent state of Ukraine. As a rule, known facts…
We Are All Ukrainians
Ironies pile up. Both participants in the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky are outsiders whose fame catapulted them to high office. Foreign policy experts…
Mischief or Misfud? Barr Calls Reveal Ongoing Investigation, Not Incrimination
Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on the allegations that Attorney General Bill Barr is now somehow “implicated” in the Ukraine controversy because he spoke with counterparts in…
Sanctioned Iranian Airlines Ferrying Illicit Weapons to Tehran
by Adam Kredo • Washington Free Beacon Two airlines sanctioned by the United States for enabling Iran’s global terrorist operations appear to have played a central role in moving illicit…
Crusaders and Appeasers
By Charles Krauthammer • The Washington Post His secretary of defense says, “The world is exploding all over.” His attorney general says that the threat of…
A Feeble Stance on Russian Aggression
by Laurie Ann Mylroie, Ph.D. Despite Ukraine’s September 5 cease-fire, a “protracted conflict” continues in the East, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights warned Wednesday. Over 3,600 people have…