Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Russia Retakes Bakhmut (VIDEO)

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At the Wall Street Journal , " Bakhmut Is Largely Under Russian Control, Says Ukrainian General ": Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy say...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Luke Harding, Invasion

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At Amazon, Luke Harding, Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival .
Sunday, April 9, 2023

We Are In a Jacobin Revolution of the Sort That in 1793-94 Nearly Destroyed France

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From Victor Davis Hanson, " Our French Revolution ."
Friday, March 31, 2023

White House Calls on Russia to Release Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich

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A journalists worse nightmare. At WSJ, " Biden Calls on Russia to Release Journal Reporter ": WASHINGTON—President Biden urged Rus...
Thursday, March 9, 2023

Has Ukraine Exposed the Russian Military as a Paper Tiger?

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At the National Interest , " While Russia may have large amounts of Cold War hardware, the military's performance in Ukraine indica...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Epic Tank Battles in Ukraine

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Interesting piece. At the New York Times , " In an Epic Battle of Tanks, Russia Was Routed, Repeating Earlier Mistakes ": A three-...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The Conversation About Ukraine Is Cracking Apart

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From Stephen Walt, at Foreign Policy , " What government officials are saying in public, and private, is fascinating—and full of contra...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The War Is Right And Just. But Is It Prudent?

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From Andrew Sullivan, " A year later, the end-game of the war in Ukraine is dangerously murky ": There are so many ways in which t...

What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Nuclear Weapons

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From Nina Tannenwald, at Foreign Affairs , " The Bomb in the Background ": In a major speech this week, Russian President Vladimir...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Tank Deliveries Could Mark Turning Point in War

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I'm interested to see how this plays out.  At Der Spiegel , " There is enormous relief in Kyiv that, after months of hesitation, th...
Monday, February 6, 2023

The U.K.'s Government-Run Healthcare Service Is in Crisis

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Is Britain's National Institute of Health held up as a model of compassionate, government-provided health care? It's often held up a...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Biden Trades a Terrorist Gun-Dealer Who Plotted to Kill Americans to Get Back Drug Smoking WNBA Flake; Gives Up Trying to Get Back the Marine Russia's Kept in Prison for Four Years

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Previously: " American Brittney Griner Released in Prisoner Swap ." And quite something of a follow-up, at AoSHQ, " Biden'...

American Brittney Griner Released in Prisoner Swap

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American Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine imprisoned four years at some remote penal colony in outback Russia, was left behind. At the Los ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Entering Sixth Month of War, Ukraine Faces Thorny Dilemmas (VIDEO)

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At the Los Angeles Times , " Entering a sixth month of war, Ukraine faces thorny dilemmas ": KYIV, Ukraine — The explosion is inva...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Cities Die in Eastern Ukraine (VIDEO)

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This ongoing war, keeps going.  At the Los Angeles Times , " Under relentless Russian bombardment, Severodonetsk and other eastern Ukra...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Brings Back Mexico's Nationalization of the Economy

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This never ends well for Mexico, and especially not for U.S. taxpayers, who always get stuck with the bill when the U.S. government rushes i...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Russia’s War on Ukraine at 100 Days Has No End in Sight, Threatening Global Costs

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Putin sure has some staying power, because this cluster must be causing some inside assessments of his leadership and power. Somebody's ...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

The Western Citizen is Dying? (VIDEO)

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At the Friedman Center in Israel, Victor Davis Hanson discusses his new book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Glob...

More Cracks in the Western Front

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Following-up, " Cracks Show in Western Front Against Russia's War in Ukraine ." At WSJ , " Ukraine’s Allies Split on Heav...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Cracks Show in Western Front Against Russia's War in Ukraine

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Yeah, I'll bet.  Problem is Ukraine won't make it without Western help, so if "the West" wants to preserve Ukrainian indep...