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by | Mar 3, 2023

A Spanish socialist high official has told me that I often use my articles in The American Spectator to insult my government, which makes me an unpatriotic person. I have been quite clear on this matter: I do not insult,…

by | Feb 26, 2023

On Feb. 7, 2022, as Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s border, President Joe Biden held a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. One of the topics raised by reporters was Europe’s massive dependence on natural gas transmitted through…

by | Jan 13, 2023

The U.K. and Poland have confirmed that they are planning on sending Ukraine modern tanks, a development that would be a major boon to the Ukrainian war effort. Poland intends to send German-developed Leopard tanks, while the U.K. plans to…

by | Jan 5, 2023

Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Edited by Noah Isenberg; translated by Shelley Frisch (Princeton University Press, 224 pages, $19 paperback) How did Billy Wilder (1906-2002) become the Hollywood legend who created such film classics…

by | Dec 10, 2022

World War II ended almost 80 years ago. Much of Europe was in ruins. Germany and the Soviet Union probably suffered the most from the fighting. Perhaps Poland the most from the occupation. In a just world, the aggressors —…

by | Nov 15, 2022

Sunday. Here I am in Greenville, South Carolina, at the Westin Poinsett. I’m here for the wedding of my son, Tommy, to his fiancée Bri. They’re both in their mid-30s. She works hard as a caregiver for a “special needs”…

by | Oct 22, 2022

In the Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, a group of German “scientists” who are “concerned” — read deranged — about the “climate emergency” — glued their hands to the floor of the Porsche exhibit hall in Wolfsburg,…

by | Sep 28, 2022

On Monday, Danish and Swedish seismologists measured what they say were explosions along the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which bring Russian gas to Germany and the rest of Western Europe. Those explosions released and probably will continue to…

by | Jun 21, 2022

Germany and other European countries are facing the prospect of returning to coal and rationing gas supplies. On Monday, Germany’s economic minister Robert Habeck announced that Germany is planning to increase its gas storage capacity and considering reactivating coal-fired power…

by | Apr 24, 2022

Many pundits are prattling about the future of the NATO alliance. They proscribe revitalization of the alliance through more military exercises close to Russian territory and the achievement of strategic victory over Russia without confrontation. One column that appeared recently…

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