ODESSA, UKRAINE — Vladimir Putin is taking full advantage of the expanding war in the Middle East to launch a major offensive in Ukraine, coordinating ground assaults along the front with missile and drone strikes against main cities, as the…
WASHINGTON — Well, we finally got to see the funny side of Vladimir Putin, the usually dour president of Russia. Vladi is not known for joking around a lot. Ask Yevgeny Prigozhin, if you can find him. But seriously, Vladimir…
The current Western worldview has slowly relapsed back to the cozy “rules-based international order” shared by the intelligentsia of the Great Powers before 1914. According to that perspective, diplomacy was too sophisticated, the global economy too interwoven, technology too advanced,…
WASHINGTON — While verifying the authenticity of quotes in my new book, How Do We Get Out of Here? Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator—From Bobby Kennedy to Donald Trump, I was brought to a…
Keep your eyes on Pope Francis the next few days. You may have noticed two dominant stories on the pope this week. One concerns his visit to Mongolia, arriving on Aug. 31 and staying through the weekend, returning to Rome…
On Aug. 24, 1991, Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Despite Moscow’s recent efforts to reabsorb it, Kyiv marked that anniversary by replanting its blue and yellow flag in the soil of occupied Crimea. Details of the operation…
Aug. 15, 2023 — Another day, another cosmic horror courtesy of the so-called “Russian world.” The setting this time is Velikiye Luki, the second-largest town in Pskov Oblast, where a solemn ceremony is being held on the sprawling grounds of…
According to reports coming in from Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, who just weeks ago dramatically challenged Vladimir Putin, threatening to march to the Kremlin to remove the Russian leader, is dead in a plane crash just…
