Bucha is a small town 20 miles from Kyiv. Last year, my girlfriend and I took a walk in a cozy park there. Generally, many Kyiv residents went to Bucha on weekends to get a break from the capital’s noise….
Since the onset of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were generally regarded as weapons of last resort. They were kept in reserve and their role was solely as a strategic deterrent. In the case of the superpowers, these weapons gave…
In the Netflix series The Last Kingdom, based on a series of Bernard Cornwall novels, the protagonist’s motto is “reputation is everything.” Nowhere is that truer than in the world of international power politics; this is particularly important in times of…
In 1946, diplomat and scholar George Kennan wrote a document that woke up the American government to the need to resist Russian post-war expansion. For more than three years, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had been the vital ally of America…
On the precipice of the regime-defining 2020 presidential election, Facebook and Twitter committed their “Pearl Harbor attack” against the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and in dutiful favor of the regnant regime’s favored candidate, Joe Biden. In an October move that…
“‘Don’t Worry, Xi, It Only Hurts When I Laugh,’” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, March 29, 2022.
The number of Russian combat deaths in Ukraine is striking, perhaps already exceeding the total dead in 10 years of war in Afghanistan from 1979-89. A NATO official has estimated that 7,000-15,000 Russians have been killed in Ukraine and that…
One of the surprises in the war in Ukraine has been the sheer number of Russian losses. A NATO official said Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since the invasion was launched in late February. That…
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…
