So here we are in a shooting war with Russia. We are supplying the weapons, and the Ukrainians are doing the fighting and dying. But make no mistake. In addition to arming the Ukrainians, by our sanctions, we have declared…
“What’s really happening in Ukraine?” This question has hit my inbox ever since Russia moved troops to the Ukrainian border. Friends look to me because much of my career has centered on Ukraine: I was a U.S. Army Russian linguist,…
Is Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ignoring Joe Biden? It certainly feels that way. Ever since Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline in June as a gesture to the environmental lobbyists and banned imports of Russian oil as…
I have been trying to figure out how Ukraine counterattacks Russia. Admittedly, I am no expert in military strategy but I have spent 50 years as a litigator and law professor. Litigation is symbolic combat, and some of the same…
“Putin at the Long Table,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator, March 16, 2022.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its global impact will go down in history as one of the greatest self-inflicted wounds and debacles in modern history. Poorly calculated, self-defeating, and lacking moral conscience, it defies the very definition of an advanced…
Russian armies are on the road to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, even as the United States and its European allies provide and pledge to provide more military equipment to Ukraine’s military. At the other end of Eurasia, China publicly…
It was late in the evening of May 24, 2014, and the Tatar activist Ervin Ibragimov was taking a stroll through the picturesque streets of his central Crimean hometown of Bakhchysarai. Whether he needed some time alone with his thoughts,…
Israel has so far pursued a non-interventionist response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but that hard line may soon change as the nation faces mounting pressure from the West to act. In a sign of change to come, Israeli…
