The president’s team is privately urging lawmakers to focus on the jobs that can be created by money spent on the war.

Professor Geoffrey Roberts & I dialogue on “WHY” Russia invaded Ukraine and whether Putin had any real options to the ‘Special Military Operation’, given Russia’s perception of an existential threat. Real dialogue/refresher; Geoff leads off at minute 6:50.

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.

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

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

If he was he would find that it is cooling toward the concept of “as long as it takes.”

Biden must tell the American people what we’re doing here, and why.

There are two competing narratives about the origins of the Ukraine War.

The next few weeks could be Ukraine’s last chance to grasp the flower of safety from the nettle of war by negotiating a compromise peace with Russia that would safeguard its future statehood and sovereignty.