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“He’s a brave man, he’s hanging in,” Trump said of Zelensky in remarks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, even as he declined to back away from complimenting Putin as “smart.” “The problem is not that Putin is smart, which, of course, he’s smart,” Trump said. “The problem is that our leaders are dumb……

Russia’s military is numerically powerful and historically weak. The Russians have lost far more wars than they’ve won including against opponents like the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese war where they should have been able to easily triumph in terms of sheer technological prowess alone. World War II, the war that most people think of Russia…

“For Ukraine’s Refugees, Europe Opens Doors That Were Shut to Others” is the snide New York Times headline. The unsubtle implication is that European countries, especially Eastern European nations, especially countries like Poland, Czechia, and Hungary which were reluctant to accept masses of Islamic migrants, are racist for being willing to accept Ukrainian refugees fleeing…

Can you save the soul of a nation when you have no soul of your own? But give Biden some credit, he’s recognized that he can’t possibly run on the economy or on pandemic management, oh that’s left is empty virtue signaling about souls honor and decency from a man with no soul no honor…

The war between Russia and the Ukraine pits two groups of nationalists and two nationalist ambitions against each other. Russian and Ukrainian nationalism both have a long history and a great deal of blood behind them. Much like the middle east, the entire region has been marked by centuries of war and population transfers, military…

After signaling to Vladimir Putin, that he would be okay with a quote “minor incursion” quote into the Ukraine, Biden is trying to blame the consequences of that invasion, which include high gas prices, on oil companies. This isn’t the first time that Biden has cynically traded in this brand of cheap anti-capitalist rhetoric, but…

The faceoff in the Ukraine has been and remains very simple, Putin came to the battlefield bringing tanks, the West came to the battlefield bringing international norms. And whether it’s WWII or anytime since, tanks always beat international norms. Whatever one thinks about whether the United States should have been involved in the Ukraine, or…

The Supreme Court nomination gave Biden a pretty clear choice, he could reward Rep. Jim Clyburn, the politician who mobilized the black voters that won him the nomination, and therefore help put him in the White House, or he could reward the Left. Clyburn lobbied for Judge Michelle Childs. Manchin and a few Republicans got…