Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that #Russia is prepared to employ nuclear weapons in defense of its sovereignty. The US dismissed the warning as a bluff and threatened Russia by stating the use of such weapons would be met with unspe

#Russia has invaded a much smaller neighbor without reasonable justification and waged unremitting war on it. It has flattened cities indiscriminately; murdered civilians with their hands tied behind their backs; systematically employed torture

We would do well to listen carefully to Russia’s stated war aims, which include but are far from limited to preventing Ukraine from joining #NATO. Others are to disarm Ukraine, rendering it defenseless; change the government, putting into place a

In recent weeks, a number of pieces have appeared in conservative venues calling into question U.S. assistance to #Ukraine (exemplified here, and here). The criticism of American involvement, though sometimes thought-provoking, is wrong on the