by jpitney | Apr 1, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia
David Bauder at AP: The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time in a year whether the risks of reporting there during wartime are too great. The Journal and...
by jpitney | Mar 8, 2023 | Reagan, Russia
On March 8, 1983, President Reagan spoke to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, He expressed his views on the Soviet Union, famously calling it an “evil empire.” He defended the Judeo-Christian traditions against the Soviet Union’s...
by jpitney | Dec 22, 2022 | Civic Education, Congress, Patriotism, Russia, Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spoke to Congress last night: We have artillery, yes. Thank you. We have it. Is it enough? Honestly, not really. To ensure Bakhmut is not just a stronghold that holds back the Russian Army, but for the Russian Army to...
by jpitney | Nov 27, 2022 | Russia, Ukraine
Raphael S. Cohen and Gian Gentile at RAND: At this particular moment, diplomacy cannot end the war in Ukraine, simply because Russian and Ukrainian interests do not yet overlap. The Ukrainians, understandably, want their country back. They want reparations for the...
by jpitney | Nov 16, 2022 | Reagan, Russia, Ukraine
On January 29, 1981, President Reagan described the leaders of the USSR. His words still apply to Putin and company: 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...
by jpitney | Oct 10, 2022 | Russia, Ukraine
David French: Brutality isn’t strength. Nor is it masculinity. I should be surprised by right-wing gullibility in the face of “masculine” Russian propaganda, but I’m not. We’ve spent the last seven years watching the MAGA movement absurdly recast Donald Trump as a...
