Recently, scholar Mark Galeotti published “Peace, Partition or Stalemate,” which assesses prospective scenarios for how the war started by Russian President Vladimir Putin might end. The peace outcome will almost certainly entail that Russia keep some of its gains in…
What, if anything, is in President Biden’s mind when he makes statements such as those he made last week? Biden has declined to send Polish MiG-29s to Ukraine, which they need badly, because he believes it would be an escalation…
Blessedly out of touch with everything for a week or so, I see that the situation in the east is much improved, freedom-wise. Ukraine is winning. The prez has reversed his defeatist assessment, or his sense of where the wind…
So how did that work when Joe Biden announced that Vladmir Putin is a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power” only for Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to follow up with a pay-no-attention-to-the angry-old-guy-shouting-at-the-clouds correction. According to Blinken, the United…
For the third time in just over a century, America may emerge as the biggest winner of a war in Europe. The years preceding February 2022 were fraught with uncertainty over the future of American power. Once-stalwart European allies were…
Not even the famed Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who was a Soviet stooge, and the equally fabled German conductor Herbert von Karajan, who was a Nazi fellow traveller, were “canceled” in the West the way Russian artists, athletes, performers, and…
The prolific British historian Niall Ferguson, writing in Bloomberg News, concludes that the Biden administration “is making a colossal mistake thinking that it can protract the war in Ukraine, bleed Russia dry, topple Putin and signal to China to keep…
Oh, Hunter. You have to be pretty clueless to leave a computer full of compromising information in a computer repair store and never go back to pick it up. That only happened to me once, with an ex-girlfriend; she now…
Tuesday Let’s face facts. Let’s look at something grim and terrifying. Comrade Putin is an aggressive dictator of a nation with above 6,000 nuclear warheads. He recognizes no limits on his cruelty and his ambition. He’s apparently not feeling well…
