Washington — Back in the days when George H.W. Bush resided in the White House, he told me rather cryptically that I would be getting an invitation to the White House. A few days later I had luncheon with his…
Tomorrow, Aug. 24, is Ukraine’s independence day, when it celebrates its 1991 independence from the Soviet Union. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he expects Russian forces to do something especially nasty on that day. Aug. 24 is also…
Washington — We have not seen the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, riding around the Russian countryside on horseback and shirtless lately, have we? In fact, much of the time he is photographed seated at the end of a very long…
The case of WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner continues to escalate. It is rapidly becoming a big deal in U.S.-Russian relations. On Thursday, a Russian judge convicted Griner of drug possession and smuggling and sentenced her to nine years in…
With friends like President Joe Biden, you don’t need many enemies. Biden made his bid to become the most militarily incompetent American president in history during the Afghan fiasco last August. He may lock in that distinction with his lukewarm…
Russia’s invasion of a sovereign Ukraine is a stark echo of the Cold War: A formerly Soviet-dominated country tries to make its own way in the world, its putative success highlighting for Russians a different path forward to peace and…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has now passed the 100-day mark with no end in sight. Fighting is intense in the eastern Donbas region while Russian forces try to interdict weapons shipments coming in from Poland and other nations. Russia occupies…
President Joe Biden recently signed into law a massive $40 billion “emergency” measure allocating additional U.S. aid to Ukraine. That $40 billion sum, which includes $20 billion in direct military assistance, $8 billion in general economic support, $5 billion directed…
Conventional wisdom has it that the Russo-Ukrainian War will devolve into a stalemate in the east and south, but conventional wisdom has proven wrong in so many cases that we should not be surprised if the unexpected happens again. Although…
