by jpitney | Dec 20, 2025 | Europe, Foreign Policy, Russia
Ron Nehring at FlashReport: There is an active effort underway, amplified daily by our foreign adversaries, to split the Western alliance by driving wedges between the United States and Europe. This is not new. Since NATO’s founding in 1949, Russia’s central...
by jpitney | Nov 22, 2025 | Russia, Ukraine
David J. Kramer, Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute and Vice President, George W. Bush Presidential Center: U.S. and Russian officials reportedly have drafted a 28-point peace plan meant to end the war Russia started in Ukraine. Based on media accounts, the...
by jpitney | Aug 17, 2025 | Canada, Foreign Policy, Mexico, Reagan, Russia, Trade
Ronald Reagan’s Announcement of Candidacy, November 13, 1979: On the foreign front, the decade of the 1980s will place severe pressures upon the United States and its allies. We can expect to be tested in ways calculated to try our patience, to confound...
by jpitney | Jun 1, 2025 | Military, Russia, Ukraine
BREAKING: Ukraine launches the largest attack against the Russian Air Force of this war. Drones smuggled into Russia have struck Russia’s strategic bombers at airfields deep in Russia. Up to 40 planes destroyed, including several A-50 (AEW&C) & Tu-95 &...
by jpitney | Mar 17, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
Last year, Jay Nordlinger wrote at NRO: Many years ago, as the Soviet Union was expiring and Eastern Europe was shaking free, Lech Wałęsa was asked what the “radios” — Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty — had meant to Poland. He answered, “Would there be an earth...
by jpitney | Mar 3, 2025 | Congress, Foreign Policy, Russia, Ukraine, Volunteering
Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, January 23, 1941. Subject: the Lend-Lease Bill: [LUTHER JOHNSON, D-TX] Which side are you on? Colonel LINDBERGH. On neither side, except our own. Mr. JOHNSON. Do you think it would be to the best interests of the United...
