The Washington Post reports that the CIA has spent tens of millions of dollars on Ukraine’s intel services since 2015

The threat of a demographic crisis has been building in Ukraine for a while but Russia’s full-scale invasion has pushed it to the breaking point.

U.S. policymakers should listen to Gen. Clausewitz, not Gen. MacArthur.

As the Biden administration is backing the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and preparing for a much wider war in the Middle East, the Ukrainian government’s much publicized four-month-long “counteroffensive” has effectively ended with minimal gains in territory. Ukrainian forces are now on the defensive against advancing Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine.

KYIV — The cluttered car carrying a mother and her 12-year-old daughter seemed barely worth the attention of Russian security officials as it approached a border checkpoint. But the least conspicuous piece of luggage — a crate for a cat — was part of an elaborate, lethal plot. Ukrainian operatives had installed a hidden compartment in the pet carrier, according to security officials with knowledge of the operation, and used it to conceal components of a bomb.

In the coming weeks, the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) is likely to pass legislation that would ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Not only would this legislation deny the freedom of worship to millions of Ukrainians, it would undermine a core pillar of Ukraine’s defense against Russian aggression — being on the right side of the law.

Country’s counteroffensive hasn’t achieved a breakthrough, and global attention is shifting to conflict in the Middle East

There is no amount of aid that will grant Kyiv the military victory it is seeking.

As more and more politicians and scholars recognize that the Ukraine conflict cannot be solved militarily, that there will be no winners but only losers, we should concentrate on stopping the slaughter. This is the only rational policy we can follow, and should be advanced by all United Nations agencies, notably the General Assembly, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Health Organization, etc.

Its causes are complex, but they originate in decisions made in Washington as far back as World War II.