After the USSR peacefully dissolved and Ukraine regained its independence, Ukraine gave up the former USSR’s nuclear weapons within its territory. Thereafter, The US, the UK, and — wait for it — the Russian Federation signed a memorandum promising to...
Robert F. Worth at The Atlantic, in The Clash of the Patriarchs, reports on how Patriarch Kirill is precipitating a potential schism in the Orthodox Church: In late august of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to...
MATTHEW OMOLESKY at The American Spectator outlines the extreme and even fatal folly of Putin’s extremely Useful Idiots. Excerpt: The persistence of pro-Kremlin sentiments on either pole of the American political spectrum, even after more than two years of...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, speaker.gov, public domain As Greg Sargent of The New Republic observes of Speaker Johnson’s world-historic stand for Ukraine: It was a remarkable moment: After introducing a package of bills that includes military aid to Ukraine,...
Eli Lake, at The Free Press, pillories Tucker Carlson for his obsequiousness toward tyrants, very much including Putin, and connivances with fascist crackpots. Excerpt: … Really bad. But what was most appalling was Tucker’s descent into moral relativism, his...
