What are we watching in Ukraine? Is the Russian invasion a blundering failure by a desperate tyrant? Or is it possible that Vladimir Putin was correct in his estimate that Western democracies have become weak, decadent, and cowardly, so that…
“All across my country, in big cities and small towns, Ukrainian flags fly from American homes,” President Joe Biden told a crowd in Warsaw, Poland, last Tuesday. The remark is irksome because, as a progressive, Biden represents the political wing of…
President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Ukrainian premier Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv earlier this week was an unmistakable sign of solidarity with Ukraine on the one-year anniversary of Russian kingpin Vladimir Putin’s reckless, unjust invasion. To the extent Biden’s aim…
The dark shattered wicked winter silence waits at the door like death. What will remain of this winter will be the words and how you said them. – Serhiy Zhadan, “The Dark Shattered Wicked Winter” (2015) The Budynok Slovo, or…
In this episode of The Spectacle, Scott McKay and Melissa Mackenzie discuss Scott’s dog Bingle and the joy of an old dog. They move on to talking about impending wars and rumors of wars. The U.S. government shooting down weather…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s words are usually aimed at Western leaders as well as to the Russian people. Those words, threatening to the West and attempting to raise a nationalistic fervor among Russians, sometimes threaten both audiences. He has, for…
Odesa May 6, 1900 (Old Style) The crowd in Katerynynska Square grows larger with each passing moment, fed by a continuous stream of pedestrians making their way down Katerynynska Street, or up the sandstone steps of the Primorsky Stairs, toward…
WASHINGTON — I have been following the pledging of combat tanks to Ukraine by the European allies. It is impressive. I do not think it is an exaggeration to claim that Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine has roused all…
The United States agreed to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine this week. The aid comes in coordination with the United Kingdom’s announcement that it will send 12 Challenger 2 tanks and Germany’s donation of 14 Leopard 2 tanks….
