Some cold, hard facts they don’t tell you about Ukraine

Zealous anti-Russia voices are actually demanding that anyone opposing their views be silenced, and even criminally prosecuted.

The Russian operation to take the port city of Mariupol is drawing to a successful conclusion. “Success” has to be understood today in a qualified sense, since large parts of the city now lie in ruins and as many as 4,000 civilians may have been killed in the fighting, largely victims of trigger happy Ukrainian ultra-nationalists.

This is a follow on to yesterday’s Ukrainian Tochka-U missile strike on the Kramatorsk railway station. Russia no longer has Tochka missiles (search for Tochka in the pdf) while the Ukraine, Belarus and several other states still use them.

Washington appears to be absent from the process, seemingly holding out for a preferred outcome while the violence rages.

Gen. Mark Milley’s predicted war of years is a Cold War II that risks WWIII. It is not in America’s interest to protract this conflict.

Perhaps the bird we should strive to be is neither hawk nor dove, but the American Eagle depicted on our great seal.

Narrowing space for diplomatic dialogue during such a dangerous crisis seems unwise

Washington’s most fundamental duty is to Americans, not Ukrainians.

The deep and actionable lesson we take away from Ukraine must be to settle disputes before they become great power wars and humanitarian catastrophes.