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...
by jpitney | Mar 1, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Russia, Ukraine
Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1987: Our Nation offers the world a vision of inalienable political, religious, and economic rights. This vision has always been shared among peoples subjugated by Soviet imperialism; and so has resistance, ever the catalyst of liberty. Today,...
by jpitney | Feb 25, 2025 | Reagan, Russia
The President’s News Conference January 29, 1981 Now, as long as they do that and as long as they, at the same time, have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves...
by jpitney | Feb 19, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Reagan, Russia
Ronald Reagan, 1983: It was C. S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable “Screwtape Letters,” wrote: “The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and...
