by jpitney | Mar 10, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Ukraine
Joe Gould at Yahoo: Lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a $13.6 billion Ukraine aid package that took President Joe Biden’s request for weapons and training for Ukrainian forces and put it on steroids. Part of a sweeping $1.5 trillion measure to fund the federal...
by jpitney | Mar 8, 2022 | Russia, Ukraine
Richard Nixon, Beyond Peace (1994): Any attempt to reestablish the Russian empire by force, coercion, or destabilization of its neighbors would be contrary to U.S. interests. To avoid any possible misunderstanding, the American government should make this clear to the...
by jpitney | Mar 1, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Misinformation, Ukraine
Factcheck.org: Quick Take “Bernie Gores” was not killed in Afghanistan in August, and he wasn’t the “first American casualty of the Ukraine crisis.” He doesn’t exist. But Facebook users were faked out by fabricated tweets that purport to show CNN announcing the death...
by jpitney | Feb 28, 2022 | Romney, Russia, Ukraine
At The Atlantic, McKay Coppins has an interview titled “Romney Was Right About Putin.” McKay Coppins: During the 2012 election, you identified Russia as America’s No. 1 geopolitical foe and were mocked for it by President Obama, then–Vice President Joe...
by jpitney | Feb 26, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
Ambassador Bathsheba Nell Crocker, the U.S. representative to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, told U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachele that journalists and others are in the Russian crosshairs: I...
by jpitney | Feb 25, 2022 | Russia, Ukraine
Fireside Chat, May 26, 1940: There are many among us who in the past closed their eyes to events abroad –because they believed in utter good faith what some of their fellow Americans told them — that what was taking place in Europe was none of our...
